Guests: Maggie Donaker, MS CCC-SLP & Katie Gollin, MS CCC-SLP

To honor Dysphagia Awareness Month, we have partnered with the Dysphagia Outreach Project to speak with some of their amazing leaders and share their expertise and knowledge as widely as possible! We are bringing you this ten-part podcast series, and today's focus is on neurodegenerative dysphagia. To help us understand these important subjects, we are joined by Maggie Donaker and Katie Gollin, who offer valuable insights, focusing on three of the main conditions under this umbrella: ALS, Parkinson's disease, and Guillain-Barré syndrome. Maggie is a medical speech-language pathologist who has been awarded seven ASHA ACE awards! As a young medical speech-language pathologist, Katie currently works full-time in the acute care setting and has experience in inpatient rehab and skilled nursing as well.

In today's exploration, we get some great high-level, as well as specific information on these three topics, with our guests introducing each and also sharing some personal experiences and advice on diagnoses, treatments, and education. It is particularly illuminating to hear how these conditions affect adults, given that so much of what we usually do focuses on younger people! So, for a great show, packed with useful information, helpful tips, and thoughts, be sure to join us!