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Swallow Your Pride Podcast
The Swallow Your Pride Podcast was created with the purpose of diving deeper into the issues that speech-language pathologists face when working with patients with swallowing disorders. We’ll discuss many controversial topics in order to provide the LATEST evidence-based treatment strategies, and cr...
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376 – Tackling the Challenges of Pediatric Feeding: What Every Clinician Should Know
In this episode of Swallow Your Pride, Dr. Amy Delaney—assistant professor at Marquette University and director of the Neurodevelopmental Feeding and...

375 – Beyond the Lecture: The Future of Med SLP Learning
Ever leave a CEU course thinking…
“Okay, but how do I actually do this with a patient tomorrow?”
In this episode, Theresa Richard sits dow...

374 – Building Confidence in FEES: The Key to Successful Swallowing Assessments
What happens when a passionate SLP flies to Hawaii to train a hospital team in FEES—and ends up learning just as much as she teaches?
In this ep...

373 – From Board-Certified in Swallowing… to Getting a Feeding Tube for My Son
After an unexpected summer hiatus, we’re back with a solo episode that’s part update, part confession, and 100% from the heart. In this deeply persona...

372 – What If Reflux Isn’t Just an Acid Problem? A New Way to Think About It with RefluxRaft
What do you get when you mix a surgeon, a scientist, and a self-proclaimed “tinkerer” who also happens to struggle with reflux? You get Dr. James Dani...

371 – When Care Misses the Mark: How Health Literacy Impacts Our Patients
“They just told me I had a stroke—but no one ever explained what that means.”
In this eye-opening episode, Theresa chats with with bilingual SLP...

370 – Improving NG Tube Placement: What Every Med SLP Should Know About the PatCom Introducer
If you’ve ever wondered, “Wait… are we as SLPs really allowed to be in the esophagus?” — this episode is for you. Theresa brings on two MedSLP Collect...

369 – When the Research Meets Real Life: Pediatric Feeding, Family, and Feeding Tubes
Feeling all the feels around pediatric feeding disorders? You're not alone. In this powerful episode of Swallow Your Pride, Theresa Richard sits down...

368 – Exploring the Vital Role of Breathwork and Airway Health in Speech and Swallowing Challenges.
Raise your hand if you've ever felt like airway and breathwork live in some mysterious corner of our field that only a handful of people truly underst...

367 – Beyond the Workbook: Engaging Patients with Meaningful, Tailored Therapy
When it comes to true community reentry after brain injury or stroke, real magic happens through teamwork—and Alexandra Arvidson, M.S., CCC-SLP, is he...

366 – From Stroke to Strength: How One Survivor is Rewriting the Recovery Story
In this episode of the Swallow Your Pride podcast, Theresa Richard sits down with Ali Mehreganfar—a stroke survivor, motivational speaker, and author...

365 – The Diez Technique: Revolutionizing Dysphagia Care Through Breathing Coordination
In this episode of the “Swallow Your Pride” podcast, host Theresa Richard speaks with Roxann Diez Gross, PhD, CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow, an expert in dysph...

364 – Navigating the Complexities of ALS: A Deep Dive into Dysphagia and Airway Management with Dr. Lauren Tabor Gray
In this episode of the “Swallow Your Pride” podcast, host Theresa Richard speaks with Dr. Lauren Tabor Gray, a clinician scientist and assistant profe...

363 – From Research to Reality: How REST is Changing the Game for Swallowing Specialists
In this episode of the "Swallow Your Pride" podcast, host Theresa Richard engages with Dr. Stephanie Watts and Jessica Gregor, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S to...

362 – From Parched to Perfect: The Game-Changer for Dry Mouth Relief with Aquoral
In this episode of the "Swallow Your Pride" podcast, host Theresa Richard interviews Bennett Blakeman, co-founder of K Pharmaceuticals, about Aquoral,...

361 – Beyond the Clinic: How animal models are changing dysphagia research with Dr. Michelle Ciucci
What do rats have to do with swallowing disorders? More than you think! In this episode, we talk with Michelle Ciucci, PhD, CCC-SLP, a professor at th...

360 – When Beauty Treatments Go Wrong: An SLP’s Warning About Cosmetic Botox Injections
"I go to swallow, and nothing triggers. Alarm bells are ringing in my head because, as a speech therapist, it's the scariest feeling."
What star...

359 – The truth about picky eaters: What every parent and SLP should know
Is picky eating just a phase, or could it be something more serious?
How can we tell the difference?
What do we do next?

358 – Breaking the Voice Conference Mold: From hands-on workshops to innovative therapy approaches
When passion meets purpose, incredible things happen… In this inspiring episode, Melissa Grassia-Chisholm shares her vision for bridging gaps in voice...

357 – Ice Cream That Heals? Meet Jeff Holtz, CEO of Thrive Ice Cream!
Ever wished there was a way to make nutritional supplements actually enjoyable for your patients with dysphagia? Meet Jeff Holtz, the ice cream innova...

356 – From Military Service to Med SLP Innovation: A Story of Grit & Growth
When life hands you an unconventional path, sometimes it leads to exactly where you're meant to be… In this inspiring episode, Hannelyn Perez shares h...

355 – From SLP to Patient: A Journey That Will Change How You Practice – Vanessa Abraham, M.S., CCC-SLP
Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of medical trauma, depression, and suicidal ideation. One minute she was living her dream as a scho...

354 – FEES Implementation: From Equipment to ROI – A Practical Guide – Sandra A Schwartz MS, CCC-SLP
Thinking about bringing FEES to your facility but feeling overwhelmed by the logistics? You're not alone! From infection control protocols to physicia...

353 – Why Your MBS Chair Could Make or Break Your Diagnostic Accuracy with Julie Kobak MA, CCC-SLP, CBIS
Are you frustrated with patient positioning during video fluoroscopy studies? Ever wonder why some facilities seem to breeze through MBS studies while...

352 – Conversation Training Therapy: Faster, smarter voice therapy
Are you ready to rethink everything you know about voice therapy? If so, buckle up. This week’s episode has everything you need to help you provide f...

351 – Broad Horizons, Bold Moves: Calonda Henry on SLP Entrepreneurship, Advocacy, and Empowerment
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350 – MSLP-C™ Certification Updates: Accreditation, Committees, and Subject-Matter Experts!
In the SLP space alone, there are over 300 kinds of certifications you can achieve in your professional development journey.
While certification...

349 – Tiny Hearts, Big Impact: The super-niche of congenital heart disease in infants with Nashifa Hooda Momin SLP.D, CCC-SLP
We have SLPs who niche….and then we have SLPs who super-niche. Meet this week’s guest on the podcast, Nashifa Hooda Momin SLP.D, CCC-SLP. Nashifa join...

348 – From Confusion to Clarity: Understanding Research and Statistics in Clinical Practice
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...

347 – Eyes on the prize: Vanessa Alcala’s journey to entrepreneurship as an SLP
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 tur...

346 – Risky Business: Navigating the Risk of Aspiration & Its Impacts Using the BOLUS Framework
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...

345 – How Can SLPs Secure Funding in Healthcare? Part 2 of the Pivotal SLP Workshop
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...

344 – How Can SLPs Secure Funding in Healthcare? with Theresa Richard, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
Have you ever requested new equipment or reimbursement for a continuing education course or certification? Did you get denied with a big fat NO?
...

343 – Total Laryngeal Transplant: Dr. Lott and Jessica Gregor Share the Details Behind This Major Medical Milestone
This past August, the Mayo Clinic had accomplished what was believed to be impossible… The world’s FIRST successful *total* laryngeal transplant on a...

342 – Ditch the Medical Jargon for This: Health Literacy Insights with Dr. Richard Zraick
“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.”...

341 – The Complex World of Auditory Comprehension and Receptive Aphasia: Assessment, Treatment, and More
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?

340 – The Power of Qualitative Research in Speech and Language Pathology – Beatrice Manduchi PhD, MSc, BSc (SLP)
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 appr...

339 – Concussions, TBI, and CTE: The Silent Epidemic—Are We Talking Enough About It? with Dr. Kelli Uitenham
How confident are you in the world of…
Concussion?
Traumatic brain injury?
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) in young athletes...

338 – Aphasia in Sign-Language: The Emerging Specialty of Sign Language Pathology
We often talk about how aphasia impacts people’s ability to speak or understand language, but what about aphasia’s impact on sign language?
Do t...

337 – That’s Not What Dysphagia Means: The Search for a Standardized Definition of One of the Most Important Words in Our Field – Dr. Martin Brodsky and Dr. Debra Suiter
Okay, this might sound like a trick question, but…What is dysphagia?
This single question might be the most “swallow your pride” kind of questio...