Speech Uncensored: A Speech Pathology Podcast

While salary negotiation practices vary and are multifactorial, not advocating for a higher income can produce long-term financial barriers and perpetuate harmful infrastructures. Participants in this course will learn more about common salary negotiation pitfalls and why self-advocacy is an essential part of any interview process. Concrete tools and approaches to negotiation will be discussed.

This course will discuss the job functions of the SLP in a skilled nursing facility as a member of the rehab team, the Interdisciplinary team, staff educator, and advocate. Additionally, common misconceptions of working in long term care will be addressed with a review of the benefits. For example, flexibility, autonomy in the facility, and building your own caseload are a few of the benefits discussed.

This course introduces an aphasia treatment that uses reading and verbally summarizing text to improve discourse. Attentive Reading Constrained Summarization (ARCS) improves informativeness, efficiency, and topic maintenance in conversation.

Complementary health approaches (CHAs) can expand a provider’s ability to address mental health across patient populations. Because CHAs vary in effectiveness and reliability, this course will address some typical pitfalls and provide tips to discern effective CHAs from lesser ones.

This course will discuss the impact of inhalation injury on dysphagia from the perspective of a speech language pathologist. The evaluation of inhalation injuries and the treatment of hypertrophic scars in the acute stages of recovery will be covered.

Guest: Katarina Haley, PhD, CCC-SLP - This course aimed to introduce participants to the FOURC model (Four Cs - choose, create, collaborate, complete). FOURC was created for clinical implementation and involved established outpatient clinics in the research behind the publication. The research behind the model was explained, along with key features and the implementation of the model in clinical practice.

Join Marie and Leigh Ann as they talk all things CBIS: Certified Brain Injury Specialist. Marie has completed the process of becoming credentialed and shares her journey.

Guest: Brittany Ferri | MS, OTR/L, CPRP - The senses play a large part in how individuals perceive the world, but also how they react to it. If your patients do not have a way to regulate this sensory input, they will struggle to attend to any type of treatment you provide. Learn the basics of each sensory system and how to indirectly improve patients’ motivation, enhance learning, and increase their skill carryover to the outside world.

Today’s episode features Dr. Amanda Stead on the topic of end of life care and the Speech Language Pathologist. I am so pleased to share the audio from the two hour live ASHA CEU with SpeechTherapyPD.com. If you missed the live event, you can access the video recording (plus slideshow) with your SpeechTherapyPD.com basic or premium membership. Today’s episode is the second half of a two hour CEU. n this episode, Dr. Stead discusses advanced directives and challenges related to end of life care. She answers questions from the CEU participants and advocates for involvement in hospice and palliative care patients. Be sure to check out the show notes on speechuncensored.com to access the resources Amanda recommendends.

Today’s episode features Dr. Amanda Stead on the topic of end of life care and the Speech Language Pathologist. I am so pleased to share the audio from the two hour live ASHA CEU with SpeechTherapyPD.com. If you missed the live event, you can access the video recording (plus slideshow) with your SpeechTherapyPD.com basic or premium membership. Today’s episode is the first half of a two hour CEU. In this episode, Dr. Stead discusses the importance of understanding grief and using counseling skills. She unpacks what to expect when working with those actively grieving and provides conversation starters and scripts that help you navigate difficult conversations. You’re going to want to have a pen and piece of paper nearby to take notes. It’s really good, ya’ll.