Swallow Your Pride Podcast

Ever look at a research paper and feel your eyes glaze over at the sight of p-values and statistical jargon? You're not alone!  But what if I told you that understanding research could be simpler than you think? This week, we're joined by two incredible guests who are on a mission to demystify research and […]

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What do you do when the deck is stacked against you and your career goals? How do you pivot when things aren’t going according to plan? Who do you turn to for help when you’re flying solo as a private practice owner? Vanessa Alcala M.S., CCC-SLP, CDP, has the answers to all of these questions […]

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What if you could take all of the evidence on aspiration, pneumonia, and dysphagia that has been amassed since the 1990s…

…and package it into a clinical framework for SLPs to make informed decisions about aspiration risk?

*BOLUS framework has entered the chat*

Aaron Padilla MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S and Phyllis Palmer, PhD, CCC-SLP join me on the Swallow Your Pride Podcast to introduce and explain the development of the BOLUS framework - a tool that considers:

Bolus characteristics 

We dig into how this framework can guide your clinical decisions AND help you have more meaningful conversations with your patients and healthcare team about risk management.

Ready to enhance your clinical decision-making process? Tune into Episode 346 and let me know what you think!

Go and dowload the references and handout here: https://syppodcast.com/346

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Discussion of the Bolus Framework (00:03:13)

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At the beginning of 2024, I hosted a free 5-day workshop dedicated to showing medical SLPs the ropes to achieving more at work (and for their patients) WITHOUT spending all of their money.  This week, you can tune in to days 3, 4 & 5 of the Pivotal SLP Workshop! Tune in, take notes, and […]

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Have you ever requested new equipment or reimbursement for a continuing education course or certification? Did you get denied with a big fat NO?

Great! You FAILed! (At your First Attempt in Learning) 

At the beginning of 2024, I hosted a free 5-day workshop dedicated to showing medical SLPs the ropes to achieving more at work (and for their patients) WITHOUT spending all of their money.

And guess what?

Now you can listen to the entire workshop on this podcast.

This week, you can tune in to days 1 & 2 of the Pivotal SLP Workshop! Tune in, take notes, and download the free Pivotal SLP Playbook to apply what you learn.

Access the workbook here: https://theresarichard.com/pivotalslpplaybook

Timestamps:

Understanding the Healthcare Ecosystem (00:02:23)

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This past August, the Mayo Clinic had accomplished what was believed to be impossible… The world’s FIRST successful *total* laryngeal transplant on a patient with active cancer! Doctors at Mayo Clinic Arizona completed the procedure on Marty, a 60-year old man with a rare form of laryngeal cancer called chondrosarcoma. A team of 6 physicians […]

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“Research shows that one out of two patients forgets half the information given to them within 24 hours, and the other half remembers it incorrectly.”

☝️This is just ONE of the many golden nuggets of information that today’s guest throws at us.

The ability to explain complex medical information and recommendations to patients in a way that’s easy to understand is a true and necessary art, which is why we have Richard Zraick Ph.D., CCC-SLP, F-ASHA, CHSE from the University of Central Florida here to talk about it!

In this week's episode, you’ll learn all about..

The two types of health literacy and how SLPs are involved in both

*NOTE: October’s themed mission inside the Medical SLP Collective is Health Literacy! If you’re not yet a Collective member and want to join this month’s mission with actionable assignments to apply at your job, go to www.medslpcollective.com and enroll today!

Visit the episode page here for more links from Dr. Zraick: https://syppodcast.com/342

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You know those awkward moments where you can’t hear what someone is saying in a loud environment, so you just nod and agree to whatever they say?

…hoping it makes sense to just nod and agree?

As a medical SLP, odds are, you’ve worked with patients who have done this to you.

Not because you’re providing therapy in a loud environment, but because they have receptive aphasia, or impaired auditory comprehension.

While impaired speech and language is easy to pick up on, auditory comprehension is a whole different ballpark…

Which is why we’re bring on our beloved aphasia & auditory comprehension MedSLP Collective mentor, Brett McCardel!

Brett drops dozens of golden knowledge nuggets with us as he shares things like…

What impaired auditory comprehension can look like (it really varies!)

And so much more!!

If you serve people with aphasia at all, you won’t want to miss this episode!

And if you want to dig EVEN DEEPER into your aphasia assessment and treatment skills, you might be interested in this month’s themed mission inside of the MedSLP Collective! We’re dedicating every resource, checklist, in-service, and webinar this month to aphasia - including aphasia in sign language! 

Get the show notes here: https://syppodcast.com/341

Aphasia Therapy Approach (00:01:34)

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While we often like to talk about research findings that shows us statistical significance in data and solid numbers we can lean on for treatment approaches…

What about the kind of data that ISN’T objectively measured?

The kind that shows us what patients or other clinicians experience think, or believe.

I’m talking about qualitative research!

Is qualitative research viewed as “less reputable” than quantitative research?

What kind of valuable information can we pull from patient experiences, opinions, and views?

Beatrice Manduchi PhD, MSc, BSc (SLP) is here to talk all about it in today’s episode of the Swallow Your Pride podcast!

Beatrice is a speech-language pathologist who went from clinician to researcher and is currently working as a postdoc fellow at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Beatrice specializes in dysphagia, particularly in head and neck cancer.

Tune into this episode to take a break from numerical data and explore the world of qualitative research and its impact on dysphagia!

Link to show notes: https://syppodcast.com/340

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Qualitative Research Interest (00:03:20)

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How confident are you in the world of…

Concussion?

Traumatic brain injury?

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) in young athletes and military personnel?

In this podcast episode, Kelli A. Uitenham CScD, CCC-SLP dives into all of those topics and more as she shares her passion for and specialized work in the world of brain injury. 

Dr. Kelli Uitenham is the founder of the Brain Talk Foundation, which raises awareness about neurological conditions like the ones mentioned above. She also runs a private practice and loves bringing in innovative technology into her therapy sessions, like “Silent Silence AI” for expressive aphasia and “Power of Patients” for symptom tracking.

You won’t want to miss this episode! Tune in now to dig even deeper into the world of brain injury.

Get the show notes at: https://syppodcast.com/339

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