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
Oral health
Lifestyle factors
Unintended disease
System status

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

TIMESTAMPS:

Discussion of the Bolus Framework (00:03:13)
Physiological Actions Against Aspiration (00:04:56)
Chronic Aspiration and Inflammation Cycle (00:07:59)
Conceptualizing Risk for Aspiration Patients (00:09:34)
Oral Health and Aspiration Risks (00:11:29)
Iatrogenic Disease and Aspiration (00:13:47)
Evidence Review of the Bolus Framework (00:15:40)
Clinical Application of the Bolus Framework (00:19:08)
Implementation Science in Clinical Practice (00:23:07)
Patient-Centered Decision Making (00:24:16)
Research and Future Directions (00:25:27)
Interprofessional Collaboration (00:27:12)
Bolus Framework in Clinical Practice (00:29:25)
Health Literacy and Communication (00:32:20)
Empowering Families in Decision Making (00:33:03)
Critical Evaluation of Thickened Liquids (00:34:25)

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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)
Effective Advocacy Strategies (00:04:26)
Defining Resource Needs (00:05:15)
Challenging Limiting Beliefs (00:06:06)
Identifying Key Players (00:06:59)
Learning from Nursing Models (00:08:07)
Advocacy for SLP Training (00:09:05)
Reframing Advocacy Language (00:10:42)
Understanding Healthcare Priorities (00:11:38)
Policies on Education and Funding (00:12:34)
Collaboration Across Organizations (00:13:37)
Building Relationships with Physicians (00:15:32)
Engaging with Other Departments (00:17:33)
Timing and Patience in Advocacy (00:18:25)
Exploring Grants and Foundations (00:18:25)
Understanding Grant Applications (00:19:18)
The Purpose of Grants (00:20:17)
Identifying Grant Opportunities (00:21:12)
Target Populations for Grants (00:22:12)
Local Corporate Grant Opportunities (00:23:26)
Navigating Grant Search Engines (00:24:20)
Creative Funding Approaches (00:27:06)
Foundations and Funding (00:28:07)
Leveraging LinkedIn for Networking (00:29:51)
Final Thoughts on Grant Exploration (00:30:47)

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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
How tools like ChatGPT can help clinicians create more accessible patient education materials
A teaching method that, according to some studies, significantly reduces misunderstandings (and it only adds about 30 seconds to a clinical session.)
How to tackle poor health literacy from a multidisciplinary perspective
Strategies YOU can adopt to reduce medical jargon and set patients up for greater long-term outcomes.

*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!)
How auditory comprehension impacts quality of life
The two ways we can classify auditory comprehension
Assessment tools
Treatment considerations

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)
Changes in the Meta SLP Collective (00:02:50)
Focus on New Resources (00:03:46)
Implementation of Material (00:05:42)
Diving into Auditory Comprehension (00:07:02)
Understanding Auditory Comprehension (00:08:50)
Challenges in Auditory Comprehension (00:10:05)
Impact on Quality of Life (00:12:04)
Classifying Auditory Comprehension Deficits (00:14:44)
Assessment of Auditory Comprehension (00:15:35)
Common Assessment Tasks (00:18:02)
Auditory Processing Model Overview (00:19:13)
Auditory Comprehension at Single Word Level (00:20:17)
Treatment Approaches for Single Word Level (00:21:24)
Research on Auditory Discrimination Skills (00:22:12)
Awareness in Auditory Comprehension (00:23:46)
Transition to Sentence Level Comprehension (00:25:24)
Assessment Tools for Sentence Level (00:27:44)
Treatment Strategies for Syntax and Morphology (00:29:21)
Discourse Level Assessment (00:33:31)
Compensatory Strategies for Discourse Level (00:35:52)
AAC and Auditory Comprehension Support (00:36:54)
Case Study on Auditory Comprehension (00:37:41)
Understanding Auditory Comprehension (00:38:52)
Life Participation Approach (00:39:51)
Communication Environment Considerations (00:40:00)
Functional Treatment Strategies (00:41:00)
Holistic Aphasia Treatment (00:41:54)

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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

TIMESTAMPS:

Qualitative Research Interest (00:03:20)
Importance of Qualitative Methods (00:05:17)
Qualitative Research vs. Quantitative Research (00:06:07)
Impact of Qualitative Research on Dysphagia (00:09:37)
Patient Perspectives in Research (00:10:51)
Integrating Qualitative Research with Clinical Practice (00:12:14)
Conducting Qualitative Research (00:15:02)
Data Saturation in Qualitative Research (00:17:22)
The Role of Frameworks in Qualitative Research (00:20:18)
Passion for Patient-Centered Research (00:22:18)
Understanding Bias in Interviews (00:23:16)
Nuances of Interview Guides (00:24:18)
Proactive vs. Reactive Therapies (00:26:11)
Patient Comfort with Therapies (00:29:00)
Streamlined Processes in Therapy (00:30:22)
Patient Education Importance (00:32:52)
Setting Diet Goals (00:33:56)
Shared Decision-Making Challenges (00:38:01)
Surprising Findings from the Study (00:39:17)
Next Steps in Research (00:41:22)

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