The Speech Science Podcast

Theresa Richard, from Swallow Your Pride, joins the guys for a round table

discussion.  It’s been two weeks since the group sat down together.  Lucas

has more car mishaps, Matt worked a comic book convention, Ivan attended

his first ever hockey game, and Theresa does her best to keep the group on

topic.

This week, Lucas high-jacks the podcast to feature three of the many

presentations from AAC After Work.  YappGuru’s Mai Ling Chan worked with

Lucas Steuber and Caroline Musselwhite to help produce a wonderful CEU

event. 

The 3 we have picked out for you this week are as follows: demos of aided

language stimulation, a tongue in check exploration of the definition of

AAC along with historical background and practical application, and a

moving lecture on the truth that nonverbal does not mean nonintelligent. 

Full intermission videos can be found on the Speech Science Roku Channel. 

 

Lastly, Playing With a Purpose focuses on the simple task yet language

complex toy, bubbles.  Emily Cohen brilliantly discusses ways to continue

to build language using only bubbles.

The group recounts their weeks as Matt met Superbubz the first grade who

graduated high school, Lucas has made it through the week without wrecking

another car, and Ivan continues to do good work in the preschools.  For

this week’s topics, the falling sales of Legos as compared to the rise of

tablets and the inclusion of eye gaze software into all situations. 

 

Legos have suffered from the rise of touch screens but they are not going

away.  Legos in the therapy room can be a very highly effective tool in

working with students with Autism and all students. 

 

As large tech companies purchase eye gaze software, the opportunities to

use them continues to rise.  Lucas offers his take on the use of eye gaze

software being able to be used on tablets and home computers. 

 

This week is also the return for week 3 of Playing With Purpose.  Emily

Cohen discusses the importance of outside play for the growth of language

and how to use it appropriately including building an out 

 

Sitting down with Lucas Steuber is Bob Cunningham.  Bob talks about his

history with AAC and how he became associated with Tobii.  Bob also

describes the future of AAC and Eye Gaze.   When a competitor releases a

new product, Bob discusses the response within Tobii.

 

Lastly, Speech Science supports ASHA’s call to arms to continue funding for

early hearing detection in NICUs and deliveries.

Dr. Meredith Harold of the Informed SLP, joins the crew for the round table

discussion.  This is the last week to register to win the year subscription

for IEPpal at www.speechscience.org/speechsciencepodcast .

Matt tries to convince the group that wrestling and NASCAR are appropriate

to speech therapy, while Lucas took one of his student skydiving thanks to

the folks at iFly. 

Topic 1 for discussion focused on parents having to juggle the logistics of

raising a student with disabilities.  The crew discuss ways that can help

families cope in and out of the school system and retailer Target is

introducing sensory friendly clothing and Smart Knit Kids has a line as

well.  The second topic for discussion is focused on a study linking

dementia to a lack of sleep and the proper amount of sleep required for the

brain to function.   

Joining the group for a sit down interview is NASCAR Driver Armani Williams

.  Armani, NASCARs first driver diagnosed with Autism, discusses his rising

career in NASCAR, working with Autism, and his plans to be a spokesperson

for Autism.  Armani Williams is a 17-year-old, Detroit-based professional

NASCAR driver currently racing in the NASCAR Pinty’s Series of Canada in

the #28 Dodge for Canada’s Best Race Team (CBRT).

Episode 18: Don’t forget to sign up for a chance to win a year subscription

from IEPpal at www.speechscience.org/giveaway. Up for discussion this week

are news articles about new ways to identify autism in females and over the

counter hearing aids.  Sitting down for an interview this week, is Donna

Edwards.  Edwards is a former OSLHA president, current professor at

Baldwin-Wallace University, and she also sits on the ASHA Government

Relations and Public Policy Board.  She speaks about the importance of

feeding and dysphagia therapy both in clinical settings and in the school

position.  She also speaks about the personal side of being on the other

end of therapy and career changes within the scope of speech and language

pathology.

Episode 17: Don’t forget to sign up for a chance to win a year subscription

from IEPpal at www.speechscience.org/giveaway.  For discussion this week,

the crew discuss a new study about the link of music to autism and the

largest study on autism.  Students in Oklahoma have speech therapy put on

hold due to funding difficulties and a program to help identify differences

versus disorders in English Language Learners.  This week Ivan sat down

with Kelly Ibañez, MS CCC-SLP, a bilingual speech language pathologist

serving culturally and linguistically diverse individuals in Los Angeles,

CA. Her clinical interests are bilingual language acquisition and public

outreach. She creates and disseminates resources related to bilingual

language acquisition on her website, The HOLA Blog (www.theholablog.com).

Episode 16: On the podcast, Speech Science has its first guest host Theresa

Richard.  Theresa Richard jumps into the rotating chair and comes with some

high credentials as the host of the newest podcast to join the Speech

Science Network, Swallow Your Pride and www.mobiledysphagiadiagnostics.com

.  The group talks about Jeanie Gaffigan’s modified anniversary meal plans,

dysphagia in the schools, and a Dutch dementia village.  Dr. Meredith

Harold, PhD-SLP, from the Informed SLP (http://www.theinformedslp.com)

joined the Speech Science crew to discuss the importance of evidence based

research to drive therapy.

On this weeks episode of Speech Science, Luke is still in the great white

north.  Ivan and Matt discuss Telepractice, both positive and negative, and

a way for students in Pittsburgh to gain an AAC device.  Leah Helou, PhD,

CCC-SLP, sat down with Ruchi Kapila, MS, CF-SLP and Chandru Vittal to

discuss voice therapy and its effects on the Transgender Population.

On Episode 14, the crew discuss Matt’s trip to the Brickyard 400, Luke is

live from an iceberg, John McCain’s brain cancer scare, and why Dads should

read bed time stories. Susan Berkowitz joins the crew this week to break

down the latest and greatest in the field of AAC.

Episode 13: The Speech Science crew dispels 10 speech and language myths, discuss the shaping of pureed foods, and descant on the genetic components of pragmatic language skills.  Joining the group on episode 13, is Keith Wolgemuth.  Wolgemuth is a rehabilitative-audiologist who's the director of the SLPD program at Loma Linda University.  Wolgemuth talks about how he bridges the worlds of audiology and speech language pathology.