Learn More:

• The Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact Website
• Update on Interstate Compact Launch (2025)
• ASHA Voices: Student Advocacy and a Win for People Who Stutter

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Sharing personal and professional stories, Brittany Horvath and Marissa James address informed consent, how SLPs can integrate themselves into palliative care teams, and more.

Learn More:

• Dysphagia Management: Strengthening Skills, Overcoming Obstacles
• ASHA Voices: Changes and Trends in Dysphagia Treatment
• AJSLP: Palliative Care Training for Medical Speech-Language Pathologists: A Multiple Baseline Design
• Offering Comfort Feeding in Palliative Care
• Prioritizing Patient Voice and Choice in Dietary Decisions

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Support for this episode of ASHA Voices comes from Ambu and Zanda.

Milstein breaks down the roles of interprofessional collaboration and differential diagnosis in service delivery. Plus, he shares the story behind the new global community he’s cofounded to bring together experts and create awareness around how to diagnose and treat ILO.

Learn More:

• Practice Portal: Inducible Laryngeal Obstruction
• AJSLP: Inducible Laryngeal Obstruction Differential Diagnosis in Adolescents and Adults: A Tutorial
• Perspectives: Breathing Pattern Disorder: A New Kid on the Block
• ASHA Voices: Preparing the “Vocal Athlete” for Performance
• Global Initiative for Inducible Laryngeal Obstruction (GIILO)

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She describes how and why she created a social group for her clients that’s directed by their interests and goals.

Donaldson, the sibling of an autistic adult, also shares how that relationship fuels her work and career.

Learn More:

• ASHA Voices: ‘This Too Is a Mask’: A Neurodivergent SLP Confronts Autism and Identity
• ASHA Voices: What a CSD Professor Learned About Autistic Masking While Creating Neuro-Affirming Spaces
• ASHA Voices: Preparing Pediatric Audiologists through LEND Programs
• ASHA Voices: Twyla Perryman-Brownlow on Building Skills for Post High School Life
• Online Conference: Autism: Communication and Connection

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On the podcast, guests share stories of what successful advocacy looks like and give a behind-the-scenes look at the work they do. All three guests are members of the ASHA Teacher Union Member Advisory Group and recently published new resources for audiologists and SLPs interested in engaging with education associations or unions.

Learn More:

• Working for Change: A Guide for Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists in Schools
• Engaging With Teacher Unions and Education Associations
• ASHA Voices: Student Advocacy and a Win for People Who Stutter

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Support for this episode of ASHA Voices comes from AMBA.

Boron describes herself as AuDHD—autistic and ADHD. On the podcast, she shares what neurodiversity-affirming spaces can look like and why they matter to clients.

Learn More:

• ASHA Voices: What a CSD Professor Learned About Autistic Masking While Creating Neuro-Affirming Spaces
• Positively Disrupting Social Groups: A Neurodiversity-Affirming Glow-Up
• Assistive Technology in Schools

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On the podcast, guests discuss how they address barriers associated with this transition. We’ll hear perspectives from both sides of that transition: Taryn Townsend at Texas Children’s Hospital, and Melaney Grenz, who worked for nearly three decades in the schools and as part of the Oregon TBI team. Grenz joins this conversation from the Center on Brain Injury Research and Training—or CBIRT—which is part of the University of Oregon.

Townsend and Grenz discuss how clinicians may engage with schools, the role of brain injury management teams, and common questions from parents.

Learn More:

• How Social Determinants of Health Shape TBI Recovery in Children
• ASHA Voices: Supporting Families of Children With Disorders of Consciousness
• ASHA Voices: Overcoming Barriers on Families’ Journey From NICU to Home
• ASHA Practice Portal: Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury
• CBIRT: Return to School

Guests share what translanguaging sounds like, how it differs from code-switching, and what it may mean for service delivery. Through personal stories, they highlight how their own linguistic backgrounds relate to the subject.

Learn More:

• Multilingual Service Provider Resource Collection
• Webinar: Translanguaging for Pediatric SLPs: Service Delivery With Multilingual Children
• LSHSS: Functional Language Proficiency in Bilingual Children: A Conceptual Framework, Culturally Responsive Practice, and Measurement Approach
• ASHA Practice Portal: Multilingual Service Delivery in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology

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Learn More:

• ASHA: Tinnitus
• ASHA Voices: From Surf Rocker to Research Audiologist, Jim Henry Knows Tinnitus
• ASHA Voices: What Tinnitus and mTBI Can Mean for Patients

Hear from Sara Circelli and SLP Tiffany Elliott about their work to reshape that transition where they live and work. They share how they address barriers to services through the hospital-to-home care model in Washington state.

Learn More:

• ASHA Voices: Supporting Families of Children With Disorders of Consciousness
• ASHA Voices: Preparing Pediatric Audiologists Through LEND Programs
• ASHA Voices: Exploring Caregiver-Provider Interactions

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Support for this episode of ASHA Voices comes Feeding Matters International Pediatric Feeding Disorder Conference.

Plus, we invite you to share what subjects you would like to hear discussed on ASHA Voices in 2026.

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ASHA Leader Highlights:

• Articles and Podcasts SLPs Read, Shared, and Listened the Most to in 2025
• Articles and Podcasts Audiologists Read, Shared, and Listened to the Most in 2025

Podcast Proposal Guide

2025 Highlights:

• ASHA Voices: 'This Too Is a Mask': A Neurodivergent SLP Confronts Autism and Identity
• ASHA Voices: AI Voices Helping AAC Users-On Stage and In Life
• ASHA Voices: Two Audiologists Take the Mic on Podcasting and Their Careers
• ASHA Voices: Preparing the 'Vocal Athlete' for Performance
• ASHA Voices: Changes and Trends in Dysphagia Treatment
• ASHA Voices: Supporting Families of Children With Disorders of Consciousness

Hear SLPs share how they use podcasting as a tool to work with people with aphasia, helping them create, host, and produce their own ongoing shows.

A panel of SLPs—including Tom Sather of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Melissa Richman of the Stroke Comeback Center in Virginia, and Bernadine Gagnon of Teachers College, Columbia University—describe the benefits they’ve seen from this approach. They also discuss the origins of the shows with which they’ve worked.

Also hear from two additional guests. SLP Melissa Capo discusses project-based interventions. And Tim Carosi, a podcast host who has aphasia, discusses his show "Aphasia to Aphasia."

Learn More:

• ASHA Voices: Benefits of Conversation in the Lives of People With Aphasia
• ASHA Practice Portal: Aphasia
• Using Project-Based Learning to Support a Middle Schooler’s Aphasia Recovery

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Dakota Sharp hosts the “On the Ear” podcast, featuring conversations with audiologists and interprofessional guests, like SLPs. On ASHA’s podcast, Sharp describes the origin of the podcast and tells the story of how an episode inspired a parent to create a device for cochlear implant processor retention.

On the “empowEAR Audiology” podcast, Carrie Spangler talks with guests, such as audiologists and parents of children with hearing loss, about hearing loss and related topics. She brings a personal perspective, given her own journey with hearing loss and cochlear implantation. Hear Spangler share what she’s learned from podcasting and what’s next for her.

Learn More:

• Early Cochlear Implantation Linked to Improved Outcomes and Cost Savings
• ASHA Voices: Researchers Discuss Speech in Noisy Environments, Spatial Awareness, and Bilateral Cochlear Implants
• CI Tech Guidance for SLPs: Troubleshooting Devices

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As a group, the guests—Farzan Irani from Texas State University, Hope Gerlach-Houck from Western Michigan University, and Nan Bernstein Ratner from the University of Maryland—will be presenting on the past, present, and future of stuttering therapy at the 2025 ASHA Convention in Washington, D.C.

Learn More:

•              ASHA Voices: Stuttering and Stigma With SLP Derek Daniels

•              ASHA Voices: SLPs on Benefits of Incorporating Mindfulness Into Service Delivery

•              ASHA Voices: How Do We Ensure Culturally Responsive Practice When Working With People Who Stutter?

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Learn More:

• ASHA Voices: Researchers Discuss Speech in Noisy Environments, Spatial Awareness, and Bilateral Cochlear Implants
• ASHA Voices Podcast Proposal Guide

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Today on the podcast, we talk effective communication between critically ill patients and providers in the ICU, emphasizing the role of augmentative and alternative communication.

Guests include speech-language pathologist Tami Altschuler and nursing professor Mary Beth Happ, who describe practical ways SLPs and others working in the ICU can collaborate to create greater access to communication. Both share moving stories that bring this work to life.

Plus, SLP Chris Ross shares her personal experience of being unable to communicate during a stay in the ICU.

Learn More:

• ASHA: Communication Access
• SPEACS-2 Communication Training Program
• ASHA Voices: Creating ‘Ramps’ to Communication Access in Health Care
• Communication Access in Health Services Special Collection
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication

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Clinical trials and media coverage are driving interest in this novel approach to hearing loss intervention. As our guests share, so far only one gene has received clinical trials. But patients and their families may seek this treatment or ask you questions about what it means for them.

To provide background and perspective, we’ll hear from two people well versed in the world of gene therapy for hearing loss: Ryan McCreery of Boys Town National Research Hospital and Jenna Devare of University of Michigan Medical School.

Learn More:

• ASHA Voices: A Promising Outlook for Gene Therapy and Hearing Loss
• First Deaf Gene Therapy Recipient in U.S. Gains Hearing
• ASHA Voices: The Limits of Our Genes
• ASHA Voices: Audiologists Address Ototoxicity in Cancer Care

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Speech-language pathologist Rinki Varindani Desai joins the podcast for a conversation about nontraditional and nonclinical roles open to SLPs. And she shares how SLPs can use their skills and strengths to find new professional opportunities.

Varindani Desai’s background is in medical speech-language pathology. She has expanded her work into nontraditional spaces, such as digital consulting. She shares her personal story and the steps other SLPs can consider if they want to make a transition.

Also, hear from two other SLPs—Mai Ling Chan and Katie Seaver—who reimagined their careers. They share what they’ve learned through the process.

Learn More:

• ASHA Career Portal
• Career Transitions Mentorship Program (CTMP)
• AI, Digital Health, and the Future-Ready SLP
• ASHA Convention: Beyond the Bedside: Exploring Nonclinical Career Pathways for SLPs

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Featuring three SLPs from ASHA’s Online Conference, “Dysphagia Management: Strengthening Skills, Overcoming Obstacles,” this panel discussion addresses shifting practices related to SLPs’ role in making dietary recommendations.

What do these changes mean for your service delivery? And most importantly, how do you communicate these changes to your patients and interdisciplinary collaborators?

Learn More:

• ASHA Online Conference: Dysphagia Management: Strengthening Skills, Overcoming Obstacles
• ASHA Voices: Avoiding Confusion in Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing
• ASHA Voices: SLPs Make the Case for a Fearless Approach to Dysphagia Treatment
• ASHA Voices: The Critical but Unseen Social Determinants of Health

Speech-language pathologist Tiffany Mohr of Orlando Regional Medical Center joins the podcast to discuss SLPs' growing role in burn care and improved patient outcomes.

Mohr is one of the first two SLPs to join the American Burn Association’s Rehabilitation Committee. She shares what she’s learned over nearly a decade of treating patients with burns.

Learn More:

• ASHA Voices: The Role of Two SLPs Following a Unique Face-Transplant Surgery
• ASHA Voices: Dysphagia, Communication, and the Challenges of Life in the ICU
• ASHA Voices: Creating ‘Ramps’ to Communication Access in Health Care

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Goupell and Monson are presenting at the 2025 ASHA Research Symposium on Hearing at the ASHA Convention. As part of ASHA Voices’ annual coverage of that symposium, they join the podcast to discuss their presentations and research.

First, Monson shares what we can learn from extended high frequencies—those frequencies higher than 8,000 Hz. He shares thoughts on why these quieter frequencies may be the first to go. Then, Goupell tells us what bilateral cochlear implants are doing well, and how he hopes to see them improve in the future.

Learn More:

• Research Symposium on Hearing
• ASHA Voices: A Promising Outlook for Gene Therapy and Hearing Loss
• ASHA Voices: The Community Link to Hearing Care Access

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Through long stretches of rehabilitation, speech-language pathologists work closely with these young patients’ families, who may be in a process of grieving.

Two SLPs from a children’s hospital in Texas discuss counseling families in this second of two episodes exploring disorders of consciousness. They tell us about collaborating with families during assessment and treatment, and how they work with these families in emotionally difficult moments.

Learn More:

• ASHA Voices: Looking for Subtleties While Treating Disorders of Consciousness
• ASHA Voices: The Difference Patient Counseling Makes
• ASHA Practice Portal: Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury

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SLP Emily Silverberg of Spaulding Rehabilitation shares her insights from treating patients all along the disorders of consciousness spectrum. She explains how SLPs look for subtle signs of responsiveness. And she shares one unusual story that demonstrates the role families and care partners can play in this treatment.

Learn More:

• ASHA Evidence Map: Disorders of Consciousness
• ASHA Voices: Isolation, Frustration, and What Follows a Brain Injury
• How TBI Presents Differently in Children Under Age 4

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First, Kelly Peña (Rutgers University/former president of ASHA’s Hispanic Caucus) shares a story of the people who brought her into the profession and what she’s passing on to the next generation of multilingual practitioners.

Later in the episode, hear from Anusha Sundarrajan (San Francisco State University/president of the South Asian Caucus of ASHA). When her colleague suggested Anusha open a gender-affirming voice clinic, it sparked a change that’s been a part of Anusha’s career for more than half a decade.

Learn More:

• ASHA Voices: Career Origin Stories – Multilingual Service Providers
• ASHA Voices: What Role Can Supervisors Play in Addressing Microaggressions?
• ASHA Voices: Three SLPs Step Off the Beaten Career Path into New Ventures

Nordmeyer has worked in many different settings and practiced as a speech-language pathologist for more than 30 years. When her son was born with a genetic disorder, it changed the way she viewed service delivery. She shares her insights.

Learn More:

• ASHA Voices: Recognizing ADA at 35 With Personal Stories of Disability Advocacy
• Speech-Language Pathology in Schools: Medical, Educational, or Both?
• Establishing Rapport With Clients … With a Disability

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Angela Evenich—who has previously written about the influence of cerebral palsy on her career as a speech-language pathologist—discusses the people and ideas that have changed her perspective on disability.

Then, audiologist Jasmine Simmons tells us about her book series on Usher syndrome. Simmons herself has Usher syndrome. And like Simmons, the protagonist of her first book, “Extraordinary Jordyn and Her Bionic Ears,” has a cochlear implant.

Learn More:

• ASHA Voices: Creating ‘Ramps’ to Communication Access in Health Care
• Imagine True Inclusion: Defining the Social Model of Disability
• An SLP Starts a Nonprofit to Provide Disability Support Internationally
• From My Perspective/Opinion: SLP Views Ableism and Accessibility, Not Her Cerebral Palsy, as Real Career Barriers

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Central to the story is their collaboration and the interdepartmental communication that made success possible. The SLPs provide details about approaching this unique case, as well as their victories, memorable moments, and the emotions they had along the way.

At the end of the conversation, hear from James and his wife Meagan.

(This conversation was originally published in February 2024.)

Learn More:

• Swallowing Function After Pioneering Partial Face and Whole Eye Transplant: Clinical Insights
• Facing the Unknown: An SLP treated a patient before and after his facial transplant surgery.
• Changes in Articulatory Control Pre– and Post–Facial Transplant: A Case Report
• The Effects of Lip-Closure Exercise on Lip Strength and Function Following Full Facial Transplantation: A Case Report

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On this podcast, a panel of three audiologists discuss the services they deliver, the interprofessional collaboration at the heart of their care, and what counseling can offer at a time of uncertainty for a patient.

Plus, one of our guests shares a personal story of cancer survival and hearing loss.

Learn more:

• ASHA Voices: Audiologists Take on Ototoxicity  
• A Communication Lifeline for Hospitalized Children
• ASHA Voices: What to Know About Opioids and Hearing Loss
• What's New in Ototoxicity Management?

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Twyla Perryman-Brownlow (University of West Georgia) shares ways SLPs can equip students with the skills and knowledge they need to navigate a meaningful transition to whatever comes next—such as employment, trade school, or college.

Learn More:

• Postsecondary Transition Planning
• Charting Paths: Supporting the Journey Beyond High School
• ASHA Voices: Embracing Your Students’ Strengths—and Your Own
• School-based SLPs: Here’s a Virtual “Backpack” of School Resources
• The Road Ahead: Postsecondary Transition Planning for Adolescents - ASHA Stream

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(This conversation was originally published in May 2024.)

Learn More:

• Toward Stutter-Affirming Therapy
• Raising Stuttering Awareness and Reducing Stigma: A Collection
• ASHA Practice Portal: Stuttering, Cluttering, and Fluency
• ASHA Special Interest Group 4: Fluency and Fluency Disorders
• ASHA Condemns Public Mockery of Stuttering

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On this episode of the podcast, a panel of guests—including Rodriquez—discusses how AI and voice-cloning technology are changing the way AAC users communicate. Hear how the technology replicates his voice and accounts for control over prosody and inflection, allowing him to demonstrate his individuality and personality.

Guests share how this technology affects Rodriquez’s life and relationships. Plus, he shares what he wants speech-language pathologists to know about voice cloning.

Learn More:

•              ASHA Voices: What Message-Banking Offers People With ALS

•              ASHA Voices: Why Some Autistic People Choose AAC and Oral Speech

•              From My Perspective/Opinion: Beyond Words: How Code-Switching in AAC Reflects Social and Cultural Nuance

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Support for this episode of ASHA Voices comes from Zanda.

On the podcast, two SLPs discuss disaster preparedness, specifically what this means for people who use AAC devices and their care partners. They discuss how SLPs can help AAC users be ready to navigate the unexpected.

And hear a personal story from the mother of an AAC user. She has a message to share about her experience preparing for a potential evacuation during the LA fires.

Learn More:

• Resources for Members Affected by the LA Fires—And Other Disasters
• Hurricane Preparedness: Tips for People Who Use Hearing Aids, Assistive Communication Devices
• Helping People With Aphasia Prepare for an Emergency
• USSAAC: Disaster Relief

On the podcast, SLPs take us behind the scenes to share stories from the ICU. In a wide-ranging discussion, they tackle the significant role SLPs play in managing dysphagia and communication there.

From the recent history that led SLPs to begin working in the ICU, to the SLP’s biggest ally in that environment, to what can happen to patients when they’re discharged, guests Marty Brodsky (Cleveland Clinic; Johns Hopkins) and Marta Kazandjian (Stony Brook Southampton Hospital; Stony Brook School of Health Professions) share their insights and expertise.

Learn More:

• ASHA Health Care Summit 2025: Grand Rounds in the ICU
• ASHA Voices: The Difference Patient Counseling Makes
• Wheeling AAC Support for Aphasia Into the ICU
• ASHA Practice Portal: Tracheostomy and Ventilator Dependence

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Support for this episode of ASHA Voices comes from Medbridge.

SLP Jasmine Keaney realizes this, which helps her navigate where to start and how to reach a patient. Counseling can be as important as direct intervention, she says.

Keaney is an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati. She began her career working in long-term acute care, where she developed skills around counseling, and learned the value of building strong rapport with the people she treats.

On the podcast, she shares stories from her career, and practical ways SLPs can help patients through counseling.

Learn More:

•              When Aphasia Affects the Communication-Intensive Job of Parenting

•              A Communication Lifeline for Hospitalized Children

•              New AHA Statement Supports Palliative Care Throughout Post-Stroke Recovery

•              ASHA Special Interest Group 20, Counseling

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Boersma shares what she’s learned about the condition, and what she’s hoping to see next for the clinic and the people she serves there.

Plus, Julie Dana, one of the first patients to visit Boersma in the clinic, tells her long-COVID story.

Learn More:

• ASHA Evidence Maps: Summary of the Clinical Practice Guideline
• ASHA Voices: The Mysteries of Long COVID
• Elusive Words: Confronting the Post-Pandemic Skills Gap

Speech-language pathologist and researcher Aaron Johnson (NYU Langone Health) and singing coach Tyley Ross (New York University Tisch School of the Arts) join the podcast to have a conversation on voice care.

They discuss habilitation and rehabilitation of the voice. As Johnson puts it, “We oftentimes are not just bringing [clients] back to where they were … because what they were doing, sometimes, is what led them to being in our clinic in the first place.”

They describe where their work overlaps and diverges, specific techniques they use, how patients respond to their work, and the insights this work has provided into their own voices.

Learn More:

• Operatic SLP Treats Voice Disorders With Sensitivity
• ASHA Practice Portal: Voice Disorders
• Characterizing the Roles of Professionals

As an adult, she discovered she is neurodivergent. The revelation arrived at the 2023 ASHA Convention, during a presentation on recognizing the signs of autism in young girls. After a subsequent panic attack, Cripps-Ludlum asked the presenter this question:

“What do you do if you spend so much time masking that you don’t know who you are anymore?”

On this episode of the podcast, Cripps-Ludlum shares a personal history of masking. She shares the forms masking takes in her life, and the associated emotional and physical toll. Plus, she explains why she’s found herself someplace she never expected to return to … high school.

Learn More:

• ASHA Voices: What a CSD Professor Learned About Autistic Masking While Creating Neuro-Affirming Spaces
• A Neurodivergent View: Give Us Strategies … With Choices
• Imagine True Inclusion: Defining the Social Model of Disability
• How Do We ‘Authentically’ Involve Autistic People in Research?

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In her research and work with autistic students, SLP Siva priya Santhanam has seen the damaging effects stigma and masking can have on autistic students' mental health and well-being. An assistant professor at Bowling Green State University, Santhanam is a creator of neuro-affirming spaces for autistic students at universities.

In this new conversation, she shares what she’s learned about masking while creating these spaces. And she says supporting autistic ways of socializing and communication contributes to a campus community that is more affirming and inclusive of all students.

Learn More:

• An Interactive and Neurodiversity-Affirming Approach to Communication Supports for Autistic Students Through Videogaming
• From My Perspective/Opinion: Realizing Their Authentic Selves
• ASHA Voices: A University Autism Support Program Navigates COVID

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Following more than 35 years as a research audiologist with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Henry is now the author of The Tinnitus Book and several others about managing the condition.

In anticipation of Tinnitus Awareness Week, Henry provides a personal account of his experience with tinnitus and discusses approaches to treatment. He reflects on how his career in audiology affected the way he thinks about tinnitus, and he explains some of the condition’s varied forms and effects.

Learn More:

• ASHA Practice Portal: Tinnitus and Hyperacusis
• ASHA Voices: What Tinnitus and mTBI Can Mean for Patients
• Customizing Tinnitus Counseling for Varying Patient Needs
• Video Game Volume Linked to Hearing Loss, Tinnitus Risk

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Murza often speaks on strengths-based service delivery. On the podcast, she shares the form that takes in the schools, and what it means for students and SLPs alike.

Reflecting on her career, she shares the things she knows today that she wishes she knew early in her work in the schools.

Later in the podcast, hear parent, consultant, and advocate Tena Green share what can be gained in the lives of students and society through implementation of a strengths-based perspective.

Learn More

·     School-based SLPs: Here’s a Virtual “Backpack” of School Resources

·     Flip the Script: Maximizing the Positives in Children’s Lives

·     ASHA Voices: Conversations on Milestones and Speech-Language Delays

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This episode's guests say pediatric audiologists may be the first step in a larger health care journey. They highlight the importance of delivering appropriate services to families at a critical time.

Hear from two pediatric audiologists who work as instructors at LEND (Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities) programs. We’re dedicating this episode to these multidisciplinary training programs, and their role in preparing pediatric audiologists.

Plus, one LEND instructor in North Carolina shares a personal connection to her work.

Learn More:

• Developing Future Pediatric Audiology Leaders: The LEND Experience
• Georgia Puts Pediatric Hearing Care on Wheels to Address Service Shortages
• Pediatric Audiologists: Partners in Early Diagnosis of Autism

(This conversation was originally published in March 2024.)

Learn More:

• Practice Portal: Multilingual Service Delivery
• Practice Portal: Multilingual Service Providers
• ASHA Voices: Career Origin Stories – Multilingual Service Providers

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Hear what she learned from that experience and how, today, she empowers herself by putting a spotlight on the needs and successes of her students.

Bradburn also shares three, specific ways school-based SLPs can advocate for themselves to help meet their students’ needs, including:

·     Asking for access to the curriculum

·     Gaining scheduling freedom

·     Rethinking where service delivery takes place

Bradburn also describes being nervous when implementing one of these methods for the first time, and what she learned from the experience.

Learn More:

SLP Focuses on Student Needs to Achieve Workload Relief

Workload-Management Approaches and Resources for School-Based SLPs

SLPs See 25% Increase in Average Number of Autistic Students Served Since 2022

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A research speech-language pathologist and a bioethicist at the Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, Larkin is the mind behind the Communication Champions interprofessional training program, where she leads courses aimed at improving communication access. On the podcast, she shares how you can be a communication access leader for your colleagues where you work.

Learn More:

ASHA's Communication Access Initiative

Why Value-Based Care Can Open Lines of Communication Access

Building AAC Capacity to Foster Communication Inclusion

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Hear why Oshita feels SLPs play a pivotal role in improving health care equity for these patients, and what organizations can do to increase communication access.

Plus, hear from patients and care partners, including personal accounts from Hari Kannan, Vidya Thirumalai, and Lyn Piper.

(This conversation was originally published in January 2024.)

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Throughout this conversation, we’ll hear from patients and care partners as they share their experiences with the health care system, including advocate Matthew LeFluer and health communications strategist Karen Hilyard, who shares strategies as well.

(This conversation was originally published in January 2024.)

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Also, ASHA’s Caroline Bergner drops by the podcast to discuss a new ASHA resource designed to answer your questions about Medicaid and Medicare.

Learn More:

ASHA Advocacy

Medicare vs Medicaid: A Guide for Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists

ASHA Voices: Student Advocacy and a Win for People Who Stutter

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A graduate student at the University of Central Florida, La Scala explains how her personal medical journey inspired her to study health literacy. Her work, and parallel work by University of Central Florida faculty, ultimately led to a collaboration with cochlear implant manufacturer Advanced Bionics.

La Scala joins SLP Richard Zraick, of the University of Central Florida and audiologist Sarah Downing of Advanced Bionics to discuss health literacy and access to care, and how providers can improve communication with patients.

Learn More:

ASHA Practice Portal: Communication Access

American Journal of Audiology: Readability of Cochlear Implant Brochures: A Potential Factor in Parent Decision Making

ASHA Voices: How SLPs Can Use Communication Strategies to Improve Health Care Access

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Michael Boyle (Montclair State University) is an SLP who uses these tools personally and professionally. He discusses what these tools offer people who stutter and addresses misconceptions about mindfulness. Plus, in an interactive element, Boyle guides listeners through a mindfulness exercise.

Later in the episode, SLP Jean Neils-Strunjas (University of South Carolina) joins me for a conversation on mindfulness and aging. And, she speaks on the benefits she’s seen for people with aphasia and the research she’s doing related to mindful walking.

Learn More:

• ASHA Convention Presentation: Cultivating Mindfulness to Enhance Communication Outcomes for Individuals With Communication Disorders
• ASHA Voices: Stuttering and Stigma With SLP Derek Daniels
• Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research: Age-Related Hearing Loss, Cognitive Decline, and Social Interaction: Testing a Framework

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Kingsbury works as a senior research technologist and assistant professor of audiology at the Aerospace Medicine and Vestibular Research Laboratory at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. She's also pursuing a PhD in aerospace at the University of North Dakota.

On the podcast, Kingsbury discusses opportunities for innovation and shares personal stories of inspiration. And she highlights the role of mentorship in her career and vestibular research.

Kingsbury is one of 12 early-career professionals featured in the September/October ASHA Leader. Look for more profiles of early-career professionals online soon.

Learn More:

ASHA Voices: Career Origin Stories – Multilingual Service Providers

Diagnosis and Management of Balance Vestibular Disorder

ASHA Practice Portal: Balance System Disorders

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Our guests explain what recent breakthroughs, including successful clinical trials, mean for the future of gene therapy. They comment on audiologists' potential role in treatment and assessment related to gene therapy.

You can learn more about gene therapy and hearing loss at the Research Symposium on Hearing at the 2024 ASHA Convention in Seattle this December.

Learn More:

Research Symposium on Hearing

ASHA Voices: Revisiting Conversations on Gene Therapy and Hearing Loss

First Deaf Gene Therapy Recipient in U.S. Gains Hearing

SLP Katlyn McGrattan (University of Minnesota; Masonic Children's Hospital) says advances in treating SMA essentially created a new condition. She explains the role SLPs play in treating feeding and swallowing issues, dysarthria, and other such conditions seen in this emerging patient population.

Later in the episode, hear from the mother of a son with SMA. She shares her family’s experience.

Learn More:

ASHA Voices: Exploring Caregiver-Provider Interactions

Dysphagia Phenotypes in Spinal Muscular Atrophy: The Past, Present, and Promise for the Future

ASHA Evidence Map: Spinal Muscular Atrophy

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Learn More:

• ASHAWire Special Collection: Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning
• Perspectives Forum Highlights Holistic Admissions
• Minnesota CSD Program Formalizes Support for Students of Color
• From My Perspective/Opinion: Advancing Justice, Equity in the Pipeline to the Professions
• ASHA Voices: HBCU Leaders Share Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Underrepresented Students in CSD

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Learn More:

• Perspectives Forum Highlights Holistic Admissions
• ASHAWire Special Collection: Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning
• Minnesota CSD Program Formalizes Support for Students of Color
• From My Perspective/Opinion: Advancing Justice, Equity in the Pipeline to the Professions
• ASHA Voices: HBCU Leaders Share Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Underrepresented Students in CSD

Transcript: A Conversation on Holistic Admissions

All of today’s guests are multilingual, and throughout each story, they discuss what it’s meant for them to incorporate multilingualism into their work.

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We talk with a representative of the Kentucky Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and with a future SLP who spoke up this legislative session during a day for student advocacy at the Kentucky State Capitol.

Guests discuss participation and highlight new legislation expanding insurance coverage for people who stutter—a bill that was championed by former University of Kentucky basketball star and past ASHA Voices guest Michael Kidd-Gilchrist.

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Episode Transcript: ASHA Voices: Student Advocacy and a Win for People Who Stutter

Later in the episode, go behind the scenes of ASHA’s newly revised developmental milestones to hear how they were developed and why they were updated.

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ASHA's Developmental Milestones: Birth to 5 Years

Episode transcript: ASHA Voices: Conversations on Milestones and Speech-Language Delays

Central to the conversation are social determinants of health, the sometimes unseen environmental and social factors that can influence our health. You’ll hear these factors in the stories of each of today’s guests.

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A professor at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, Hoepner studies the experiences of people with TBIs and their interactions with health care providers. As a part of his research, he’s gathered and published observations from people who have experienced brain injuries. He shares what he’s learned from that research, highlighting the chronic phase of care and the powerful role of conversation groups for those with TBIs.

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Central to the story is their collaboration and the interdepartmental communication that made success possible. The SLPs provide details about approaching this unique case, as well as their victories, memorable moments, and the emotions they had along the way.

At the end of the conversation, hear from James and his wife Meagan.

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Principal investigator David Rein, of NORC at the University of Chicago, and audiologist Nick Reed, of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, discuss the Sound Check project. This research initiative includes new estimates of bilateral hearing loss and an interactive map that presents the data by state, county, and more.

Hear the researchers observe trends and share takeaways from this comprehensive look at hearing loss in the U.S.

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At the center of their collaboration is addressing the cognitive load in patients who have both tinnitus and the injury. Find out why and how the duo decided to join together to help these patients, and what they do differently now.

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Hear why Oshita feels SLPs play a pivotal role in improving health care equity for these patients, and what organizations can do to increase communication access.

Plus, hear from patients and care partners, including personal accounts from Hari Kannan, Vidya Thirumalai, and Lyn Piper.

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Throughout this conversation, we’ll hear from patients and care partners as they share their experiences with the health care system, including advocate Matthew LeFluer and health communications strategist Karen Hilyard, who shares strategies as well.

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Hendrickson’s memoir “Life on Delay” is a personal expansion, exploring the author's own life experiences with stuttering. On the podcast, he discusses his book, publicly disclosing he is a person who stutters, and addresses media representations of speech disfluency.

This is ASHA Voices’ third conversation featuring authors discussing their lives as people who stutter. All conversations feature special guest co-host and SLP Chaya Goldstein-Schuff of the Sisskin Stuttering Center and the StutterTalk podcast.

SLPs Kyomi Gregory-Martin and Nancy Gauvin join the podcast for a conversation on creating inclusive workplace cultures and what to do if you unintentionally commit a microaggression.

Later in the episode, hear a personal story from Iván Campos, a bilingual SLP working in California. He also shares how he feels microaggressions have changed since 2020.

SLP Laura Brooks discusses her work with the International Dysphagia Diet Standardization Initiative, or IDDSI. The nonprofit has been developing and implementing resources that standardize measurements for thickened liquids and modified foods.

Brooks, who treats children with swallowing disorders, discusses cultural considerations in her work with care partners and family members. And she shares what she’s learning from clinicians outside the U.S. through her work with the international nonprofit.

This conversation was originally published in February 2023.

To reflect and expand on this update, DLD advocates Kelly Farquharson, Tiffany Hogan, and Karla McGregor join the podcast to detail the work they are doing to bring attention to the neurodevelopmental condition. They discuss what this recent IDEA development means for students with DLD and the SLPs who work with them. It's part of a conversation covering advocacy, masking, and the ways SLPS can address DLD while working with families and teachers.

A panel of audiologists with distinct perspectives on the devices—informed by their varying professional experiences—discuss uptake, patient satisfaction, and common misconceptions. Plus, hear what our guests hope year two and beyond might hold for these devices.

Vanderbilt University’s Cara Donohue shares her experience with this burgeoning technology before discussing implications and practical applications. Hear why she considers the roles of engineers and interprofessional collaboration to be essential.

Zeng’s research focuses on the ways hearing and the brain are linked, like through tinnitus or with cochlear implants. At the 2023 Research Symposium on Hearing at the upcoming ASHA Convention, he will present on the implications of AI for audiological research and care.

This technology can help patients receive needed care, and McCaslin discusses how an AI system, which he helped to develop, coordinates care for patients with dizziness and puts them in front of the appropriate providers.

McCaslin will be presenting as a part of the 2023 Research Symposium on Hearing at the upcoming ASHA Convention.

Anderson joins the podcast to discuss his life and his book, including his experience with avoidance-reduction therapy, and what he wants to share with SLPs.

This is the second conversation with an author who has written about their life as a person who stutters. Both conversations feature special guest co-host and SLP Chaya Goldstein-Schuff of the Sisskin Stuttering Center and the StutterTalk podcast.

In the novel, protagonist "Little Man" takes over a paper route and finds empowerment, gaining confidence in himself and in his ability to communicate. Vawter talks about his own experiences as a person who stutters, and how people have reacted to his book over the years.

This is the first of two conversations with authors about the lives of people who stutter, as narrated on the printed page. Both conversations feature special guest co-host and SLP Chaya Goldstein-Schuff of the Sisskin Stuttering Center and the StutterTalk podcast.

Non-compete agreements are used to prohibit employees from leaving one workplace to join or create a competitor. Some employees believe the agreements limit their career advancement, but many employers feel they are necessary to protect their businesses and intellectual property.

On this episode of ASHA Voices, hear a discussion on what may, or may not, be changing with non-compete agreements, and learn what employees and employers can do to protect their interests. Plus, ASHA members voice their perspectives.

Later in the episode, hear from a future SLP who is creating a space for vulnerable conversations about the experience of being a person who stutters.

These conversation were originally published in November 2022.

First, the hosts of the Brain Friends podcast – Angie Cauthorn, an advocate for people with aphasia, and SLP Seles Gadson. The duo discusses their aphasia-centered podcast and address the critical role of conversation groups, such as the Black American Aphasia Conversation Group, in fostering that community and connection. Angie also shares her experience with the language disorder.

Later in the episode, we’re joined by poet and founding member of the Black American Aphasia Conversation Group, Michael Obel-Omia.

Plus, does it feel like you've been hearing more about public health in recent years? Warren explains the reason for that. She shares a brief history of health care trends in the U.S, including how the COVID-19 pandemic affected awareness of public health.

Plus, we’ll hear a first-hand account from a family Kornman assisted with message banking in her work for Team Gleason.

This conversation was originally published in September 2022.

As a person who stutters and as an SLP specializing in stuttering, Chris Constantino of Florida State University discusses how concepts like neurodiversity and the social model of disability can influence and inspire intervention. He shares what these ideas mean to him and how they might look if they’re applied in practice.

Plus, Constantino highlights some of the positive moments he’s gained in his life from being a person who stutters.

This conversation was originally published in July 2022.

She discusses the role that CSD professionals play in reducing barriers associated with health care disparities for people with disabilities—particularly disabilities affecting communication.

Look for the transcript for this episode online at on.asha.org/podcast

This conversation was originally published in October 2022.

In recounting her education at UNC Greensboro and Vanderbilt University and career path back to her home country, Piper highlights some of the differences between working inside and outside of the U.S.

This conversation was originally published in July 2022.

Audiologist Gail Whitelaw discusses what clinicians may want to consider when assessing or treating a person who's had a brain injury. She tells the story of one patient's long road to hearing care after acquiring a TBI during the Boston Marathon bombing.

Plus, author and researcher Nina Kraus (“Of Sound Mind”) takes us into the brain to reveal what she’s learning about how TBIs can affect the brain’s ability to make sense of the sounds in our lives.

These conversations were originally published in August 2022.

Strand also describes how she approaches discussions of this motor speech disorder with families. Plus, with a storied career, she shares memories of patients and experiences that inform her professional life, including the valuable lessons she took from those interactions.

First, educational audiologist Sarah Sparks relates her story, including what she’s witnessed as a Deaf audiologist empowering clients.

And, audiologist Stacey Lim of Central Michigan University provides her take on what future audiologists may consider when looking for employment.

SLP Laura Brooks discusses her work with the International Dysphagia Diet Standardization Initiative, or IDDSI. The nonprofit has been developing and implementing resources that standardize measurements for thickened liquids and modified foods. Brooks, who treats children with swallowing disorders, discusses cultural considerations in her work with care partners and family members. And she shares what she’s learning from clinicians outside the U.S. through her work with the international nonprofit.

First, hear from two SLPs in Chicago. This mentor-mentee duo shares lessons and stories from the more than 35 years they’ve known each other.

In the second half of the episode, we hear from two bilingual SLPs. The way they met would have been impossible just a few years ago. Hear what resulted from this international mentorship.

Autistic advocate endever* corbin (who uses lower-case letters and an asterisk as part of their name) and SLP Amy Donaldson are supporting access for all autistic people—some of whom may choose to use AAC even when communicating orally is an option.

They explain how choosing to use speech and AAC can help autistic people fight burnout and boost self-advocacy.

Audiologist/SLP Mershen Pillay from Massey University in New Zealand and audiologist Ishara Ramkissoon from Gallaudet University join the podcast. They discuss a service-learning trip they designed for students from the U.S. traveling to South Africa, and share what the experience revealed about the differences between the community and medical models of health care.

Plus, Chisomo Selemani’s life and work straddle the U.S. and Zambia. The Baldwin Wallace University CSD faculty member shares insights from managing a study-abroad program, and offers questions you might want to ask yourself before working or studying internationally.

This episode was produced in collaboration with ASHA’s International Issues Board and Special Interest Group 17, Global Issues in Communication Sciences and Related Disorders.

SLP Julie Sullivan is the first point of contact for long COVID patients at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital COVID Recovery Center. She joins the podcast to share what she’s learning about this stubborn fallout from COVID-19.

And people with the condition discuss the baffling symptoms affecting their lives.

From University of Pittsburgh, audiologist Elaine Mormer and pharmacist Lucas Berenbrok say over-the-counter hearing aids could create new opportunities for both professions. They say it’s important for pharmacists to be able to spot hearing health “red flags.” Find out why, and how that help spurs more referrals to audiologists.

Audiologist and researcher Marcia Hay-McCutcheon is asking questions about what these devices might mean for people living in rural areas with no audiology services, and she’s taking those questions on the road. She’ll be conducting her research from a 40-foot long, 33,000-pound mobile clinic, part of the Hear Here Alabama Project.

Read the transcript at on.asha.org/podcast

Look for the transcript for this episode online at on.asha.org/podcast

She discusses the role that CSD professionals play in reducing barriers associated with health care disparities for people with disabilities—particularly disabilities affecting communication.

Look for the transcript for this episode online at on.asha.org/podcast

Baugh, president of the Linguistic Society of America, shares how dialect can be used to discriminate against people, which he refers to as linguistic profiling. Baugh explains how linguistic profiling can affect all facets of people's lives, from apartment leasing to legal proceedings. He also describes his experiences acting as an expert witness in court.

Plus, we’ll hear a first-hand account from a family Kornman assisted with message banking in her work for Team Gleason.

This episode was produced in anticipation of the 2022 ASHA Convention, where Team Gleason founders Steve Gleason and his wife, Michel, will be honored with the Annie Glenn Award.

The two focus on health care disparities and access issues, sharing innovative ways to meet hearing care needs—including the use of community health workers. Both researchers look at how these trusted community members can help clinicians close the hearing health gap.

These SLPs took a risk or made a move, and their careers haven't been the same since. They tell how they’re applying their CSD skills and knowledge to entirely new challenges.

Audiologist Gail Whitelaw discusses what clinicians may want to consider when assessing or treating a person who's had a brain injury. She tells the story of one patient's long road to hearing care after acquiring a TBI during the Boston Marathon bombing.

Plus, author and researcher Nina Kraus (“Of Sound Mind”) takes us into the brain to reveal what she’s learning about how TBIs can affect the brain’s ability to make sense of the sounds in our lives.

In the second half of the episode, we hear from two bilingual SLPs. The way they met would have been impossible just a few years ago. Hear what resulted from this international mentorship.

In recounting her education at UNC Greensboro and Vanderbilt University and career path back to her home country, Piper highlights some of the differences between working inside and outside of the U.S.

As a person who stutters and as an SLP specializing in stuttering, Chris Constantino of Florida State University discusses how concepts like neurodiversity and the social model of disability can influence and inspire intervention. He shares what these ideas mean to him and how they might look if they’re applied in practice.

Plus, Constantino highlights some of the positive moments he’s gained in his life from being a person who stutters.

Clients need to feel that they are valued and respected, and for gender-diverse clients, this often begins with the language we use. The consequences of not showing this respect can be large. They can even lead to negative client outcomes, as our guest today shares.

SLP Greg Robinson is a faculty member at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and the chair of L’GASP, ASHA’s LGBTQ+ caucus.

Robinson shares guidance on how to approach conversations around gender and what to do if you inadvertently slip up. They also tell a personal story of how a health care provider’s language led them to stop receiving care.

Olsen is a post-doctoral researcher at the Breathing Research and Therapeutic Center at the University of Florida. The interprofessional research center focuses on issues of respiration in health care and rehabilitation.

She joins the podcast from Florida to discuss the opioid epidemic and to highlight research that may be of interest to other SLPs who treat patients affected by opioid use.

This is the third episode of our 2022 series looking at how the opioid epidemic affects the work of CSD professionals.

Ed Bice and Alicia Vose advocate for taking the fear out of dysphagia treatment—starting with the language we use.

In recognition of Dysphagia Awareness Month, we hear their insights on the words they choose and how they approach conversations with physicians. We also discuss what a person-centered approach looks like, and why it’s important to assess a swallow in relation to the whole person.

Plus, we look at the results of our guests' 2021 survey examining how often SLPs consult registered dietitians. They share why they think the results may point to a big opportunity.

Both guests are presenters at ASHA's online conference, “Controversies and Consensus in Dysphagia Management.” The conference begins August 3. Find details at asha.org.

Increasing diversity, representation, and inclusion in the pipeline through colleges and universities continues to be critical. On this episode of the podcast, we’ve gathered three leaders from CSD programs at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Guests discuss strategies for recruiting and retaining students from underrepresented backgrounds. They also share stories of the people and places that helped them find success in CSD.

SLP Fabi Hirsch joins the podcast for a conversation about this complex disorder, and her work with public figures who have it, including U.S. Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. Hirsch is CEO and director of clinical services for the nonprofit Friends of Aphasia., which she co-founded with Giffords.

Poling describes her work co-leading subgroups on aminoglycosides and cancer treatment as a part of the International Ototoxicity Management Group. The interprofessional group is addressing ototoxicity through publications, research, and collaboration.

Often associated with race and socioeconomic status, health care disparities can have a devastating impact. The disparities affect everything from finances to health care outcomes.

Guests explain how the COVID-19 pandemic has drawn public attention to disparities in care that have always existed. And they say everyone has a role to play in confronting these inequities.

Today on the podcast, we’re joined by Joel VanEaton (Broad River Rehab) and Mary Kennedy (Chapman University) to discuss what clinicians may need to know about the emerging population of patients with long COVID.

Plus we hear from Sarah Eastman, a speech-language pathology student who noticed unanticipated changes in her health after she thought she'd fully recovered from COVID. Hear how she says the experience has affected her approach with patients.

Boston Children’s Hospital’s Jeff Holt discusses an unexpected discovery that tied a specific gene to a genetic form of hearing loss. And Stanford University’s Tina Stankovic describes her investigations into diagnostics and therapeutics for sensorineural hearing loss.

Hersh works as a part of a team treating pediatric feeding disorder, and she shares how awareness of these aspects of patients’ lives, like food access and housing, can make a difference when it comes to health care outcomes.

She talks through what she’s learning and the specific ways she’s modified her care to be better informed by social determinants of health.

They share tips and advice for school-based SLPs and address the question: What do you do when the administration doesn’t understand your role?

We’re joined by an interdisciplinary team from Children’s Wisconsin, a pediatric health center, for a discussion about the teamwork behind treating pediatric feeding disorder. Team members also share outcomes of their collaboration.

They say that the effects of prenatal opioid exposure can last beyond infancy and early childhood, with children presenting characteristics that can sometimes be mistaken for other diagnoses.

Plus, in the spirit of reflection, retiring ASHA CEO Arlene Pietranton takes a bow. After 18 years leading the association, Pietranton shares stories and reflects on the mission that’s sustained her service.

Archambault joins ASHA Voices to tell us about serving as an SLP at the school and shares the five principles of trauma-informed care she incorporates into her work. She also addresses what a trauma-informed approach might look like as students and staff deal with fallout from COVID-19.

This conversation was originally published in July 2021.

Kidd-Gilchrist also discusses his advocacy work for people who stutter through his initiative Change and Impact. The nonprofit focuses on helping those who stutter access services from SLPs and, as a part of that, Michael creates greater awareness of stuttering and the lived experiences of those who stutter.

Central to this conversation are questions about the voice and identity: In the fight against linguistic discrimination, could accent modification be a tool to repel inequity, or could it instead perpetuate it? 

We’ll hear from an SLP who wrote a book on accent modification and another SLP who made waves with a provocative presentation in December of 2020. Plus, leaders of some of ASHA’s multicultural constituency groups share their thoughts.

Award-winning researcher Lauren Calandruccio joins the podcast to discuss auditory perception in noisy environments, like the classroom. She tells us about the experiments she conducted into how children perceive sound, and we hear the surprising turn her research took.

Plus, Lauren shares what she’s doing at Case Western Reserve University to facilitate communication in her university classroom during the pandemic.

In honor of International Stuttering Awareness Day on October 22, we’re presenting an encore publication of our episode on stuttering representation and visibility.

We hear from SLP Chris Constantino, a faculty member at Florida State University. Constantino talks about what he’s heard from his clients and shares what the inauguration of President Biden, who has spoken openly about his experience as a person who stutters, means for him personally. Constantino is also a person who stutters.

Then, a panel of SLPs—Derek Daniels, Courtney Byrd, and Katie Gore—join the show. We discuss the importance of acceptance in assessing and treating stuttering, and we talk about how the experience of stuttering differs from person to person.

Columbia University psychiatry researcher Bret Rutherford says depression is one of the main drivers of disability in older adults, linking the condition to cognitive decline, dementia, and hearing loss. He explains what role hearing health might play in preventative care.

Then, Esther Oh, co-director of Johns Hopkins’ Memory and Alzheimer's Treatment Center, describes how hearing loss can compound symptoms like agitation.

The nature of those regulations, and what they may mean for audiologists, is up for speculation. Some may see these devices as an opportunity to increase awareness of hearing health. Others may be concerned about possible impacts of these devices on audiologists’ practices.

Today on the podcast, we’re joined by an expert panel to discuss the implications and possibilities that may arrive on the shelf alongside these hearing aids.

Often associated with race and socioeconomic status, the impact of health care disparities can be devastating. The disparities affect everything from finances to health care outcomes.

Panelists explore how implicit bias can perpetuate inequities, and share what clinicians can do to help.

African American English, or AAE, is a language variation. Maybe you've heard it called a dialect. It sounds different from Mainstream American English. It has its own rules and its own grammar, and it comes from a long language tradition. But when AAE is not recognized, it can be misdiagnosed as a language disorder.

Covering everything from misdiagnosis in the classroom to the connection between language and identity, our panel of experts discusses the language variation known as African American English.

SLP Greg Robinson is a faculty member at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and the chair of L’GASP, ASHA’s LGBTQ+ caucus.

Robinson shares guidance on how to approach conversations around gender and what to do if you inadvertently slip up. They also tell a personal story of how a health care provider’s language led them to stop receiving care.

Archambault joins ASHA Voices to tell us about serving as an SLP at the school and shares the five principles of trauma-informed care she incorporates into her work. She also addresses how SLPs can prepare for the upcoming school year, and what a trauma-informed approach might look like as students and staff deal with fallout from COVID-19.

Hamilton describes the book as a tool for self-reflection and growth, and says she hopes professionals will find it accessible and relevant throughout their careers. The book covers and explores issues such as family separation at the border, gender identity, unconscious bias, African American English and more.

On the podcast, Hamilton shares two stories from the book, including one pulled from her own life.

In June 2021, the book was recognized with an Excel Award from the Association Media and Publishing Network in the technical book category.

We speak to Charley Della Santina, the director of the Johns Hopkins Vestibular NeuroEngineering Lab. Plus, we hear from a recipient of the device, A’ndrea Elyse Messer, and an audiologist who is the director of the USC Balance Center, Alaina Bassett.

First, Shulunda Gibson takes us from burnout in private practice to a trip around the world. Hear the lessons she learned while moving from “fear to freedom.”

Then, the authors of Speech-Language Pathologists as Expert Witnesses, Brenda Seal and Lissa Power-deFur, demonstrate how they used their skills in pursuit of justice.

Hear more moments that changed everything.

First, Kristin King’s story takes her from a trauma center in North Carolina to her role as vice president of clinical education and research at Passy-Muir.

Then, Suzanne Coyle goes from being a clinician working in outpatient rehab to her role as executive director of the Stroke Comeback Center.

Hear the moments that changed everything.

At the center of the conversation are questions about access. What can the VA teach us about what’s possible through telepractice? And how is their use of telepractice different than what we see from other health care providers?

Plus, hear our guest run through a list of six common misconceptions about telepractice, correcting myths and sharing experiences from her career.

On the podcast, we’re joined by a panel of health care administrators who represent a wide range of settings to discuss this subject. We talk about what to do when you feel your productivity requirements are too high and look at the ethical obligations of administrators. Plus, our panel shares their thoughts on how to find time for interprofessional practice in a demanding work environment.

The productivity discussion will continue at the upcoming ASHA online conference, “Empowered SLPs in Health Care: Breaking Barriers and Shaping Solutions,” with our guests participating in a panel on this subject.

Neuropsychologist Brigid Waldron-Perrine and SLP McKay Moore Sohlberg help us take a patient-centered look at where psychology and speech-language pathology overlap and interact.

The duo highlights what is possible when psychologists and SLPs work together and, they deliver recommendations for what to do when patients ask about the potential for COVID-19-related cognitive effects.

Now, a year later, Santhanam joins ASHA Voices to talk about the ways she’s sustained – and grown – the program. Santhanam discusses supporting students with autism during the pandemic, the benefits to the speech-language students, and the program’s non-hierarchical structure.

Joining our panel are audiologists Peter Ivory and Michelle Hu, and author and media scholar Mack Hagood. The trio discuss past films and performances featuring people with hearing loss, and a sudden increase in on-screen tinnitus portrayals in the early 2000s. And we dig into Oscar-nominated “Sound of Metal” from the perspectives of audiologists and people who have hearing loss, as Hu does.

Faced with many challenges, including limited access to running water and high poverty rates, the Navajo Nation faced a higher rate of mortality by COVID-19 than any state in the U.S. at one point last year. But now, Navajo Nation is sharing a success story—of plummeting COVID numbers and exemplary rates of vaccination.

On this episode, Allison-Burbank joins the podcast to shares his story, what he’s learned in this difficult year, and the specific Navajo story he uses to find inspiration during the pandemic.

The duo joins ASHA Voices to discuss their work to bolster culturally responsive care in audiology. Listen in as they share what audiologists can do to attract and effectively serve a more diverse clientele.

Stuttering is having a moment, and we’re taking this occasion to talk about it.

We hear from speech-language pathologist Chris Constantino, a faculty member at Florida State University who studies the experiences of people who stutter. He talks about what he’s heard from his clients and shares what this moment means for him personally—as he, too, is a person who stutters.

Then, a panel of SLPs—Derek Daniels, Courtney Byrd, and Katie Gore—join the show for a conversation about representation and visibility for those who stutter. We discuss the importance of acceptance in assessing and treating stuttering, and we talk about how the experience of stuttering differs from person to person.

Hamilton describes the book as a tool for self-reflection and growth, and says she hopes professionals will find it accessible and relevant throughout their careers. The book covers and explores issues such as family separation at the border, gender identity, unconscious bias, African American English and more.

On the podcast, Hamilton shares two stories from the book, including one pulled from her own life.

Many are hoping for fresh starts and meaningful change.

In the first segment, audiologists and SLPs share what they're looking forward to in 2021--including increased cultural responsiveness and improved physical and mental health.

Then audiologist Carrie Spangler recounts her experience of receiving a cochlear implant (CI) after working in the field for more than 20 years. Spangler describes her CI journey and how the device affects how she thinks about her work. You can read more about her CI experiences on her blog, Hearing Spanglish.

Their talks began when Desormes joined the unit at Bethesda Hospital in 2019. In the time since, Miller says she’s changed the way she approaches racial issues in and outside the workplace.

The two SLPs join the podcast for a conversation about race, the workplace, and the role of their friendship in how they discuss this important subject.

Of course, SLPs know the importance of  helping a child with autism  become empowered and  believe in themselves, and today’s guests make that a priority.

SLPs Rachel Dorsey and Jessie Ginsburg share  strategies and examples of ways to help foster  this positive  outlook with a strengths-based approach. They discuss the importance of word-choice and language when working with parents and how they address goal creation.

After a summer of uncertainty about what to expect this fall, school-based SLPs are navigating back-to-back telepractice sessions, hybrid online/in-person models, and myriad infection-control measures.

In this episode, we hear about how it's going. We asked five school-based SLPs: What has the start of the new academic year been like for you? And, how is it different from last spring?

We talk about what they're doing to keep themselves and their students safe, what they're learning about telepractice, and more.

Join us next episode for a conversation with educational audiologists.

On this episode, we talk to ASHA members and autistic SLPs about their differing language choices, and excerpt a spirited discussion of the issue on the Autism Speaks podcast Autism POVs.

Plus, acclaimed autism book author Barry Prizant returns to the podcast.

We also discuss Wiley's workforce-preparation program that helps young adults with communication disorders transition from high school into meaningful employment.

Experts discuss how to help young adults with communication disorders stay safe during police encounters. And a Howard University professor describes her awareness-raising work to keep Black youth with autism from being misunderstood and routed to the juvenile justice system.

(15:25) Later in the show, SLP Lauren Sharpe shares stories of COVID-19's emotional impact on both patients and SLPs in home health, with social isolation as a major factor.

(21:51) And home-health expert Jenny Loehr returns to the podcast to discuss caseloads and how the recently implemented Patient-Driven Groupings Model fits into this puzzle

(1:13) We hear the story of a graduate student and a faculty member brought together by the need for increased support for minority students. They tell us how they used a series of seminars to raise diversity awareness among faculty and students in a CSD program.

(14:04) Then, we head south to a course that faculty hustled to pull together to address our new COVID-19 reality. Find out why the University of Central Florida created this remote health care class with a hands-on approach.

As health care SLPs around the country see COVID-19 numbers rising, Altschuler talks about her lessons learned from facing a surge.

With ASHA Connect 2020 just around the corner, presenter, SLP, and billing and coding expert Dee Nikjeh joins the podcast to share three of the most interesting questions she’s received since the pandemic began.

Castle joins ASHA Voices for a conversation about what mentorships mean in his life and career, and he shares memories of Rivers, who died last month.

At a time when much of the country is reflecting on race, we discuss the role mentorships can play in creating diversity in the field of speech-language pathology.

(15:48) Next we talk about what's on so many of our minds--going back to the office. Safety is the obvious concern as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Joining us is audiologist Ryan Kennard, who discusses his weighing of curbside, telepractice, and in-clinic options as he made plans to reopen the practice he directs, the San Luis Obispo Hearing Center. He shares how he adjusted his services to reopen safely.

(1:45) Audiologist Karen Munoz shares three common COVID-19-related EI difficulties she’s hearing about from audiologists--and strategies you can use now to handle them.

(14:06) Then speech-language pathologist Arlene Stredler Brown joins us to talk telepractice in early intervention. We discuss the good and the bad: the technical challenges but also the opportunity to promote family-centered care and coaching.

Then, we’re joined by audiologist Vickie Tuten to discuss occupational hearing hazards and how fit-testing hearing protection can help ensure that hearing protection is used correctly.

Plus, we’ll hear from public health expert Rick Neitzel, principal investigator in the Apple Hearing Study. As part of this research partnership between Apple and the University of Michigan, he's collecting data on noisy environments and headphone volume. The hope is this research could influence policies that one day change how our world makes noise.

In the second half of the episode, we’ll talk with Denise Underkoffler and her daughter Abby Diaz about speech-language treatment and family. Denise is an author and SLP. Her new children’s book "Everybody Needs a Turn" considers the role of siblings in speech-language treatment. Hear the personal inspiration behind her book.

And, we continue our look at health care with a check-up. It’s been six months since the Patient Driven Payment Model went into effect. We ask what this new payment system has meant for those in skilled nursing facilities.

We talk with audiologists and SLPs throughout the country about the pandemic's immediate and drastic effects on their work. From the Seattle area to New York City, they are facing significant challenges, but they are also rising to those challenges.

Featuring voices of professionals in schools, private practice, academia, and health care, this late-breaking episode delivers snapshots of their current experiences during this fast-moving, unpredictable national crisis.

Maybe you’re feeling depleted or experiencing burnout in some way. Once that cycle starts, it can get harder to step back and revitalize. On this episode of ASHA Voices, we talk with Sarah Lockhart and Sarie Wu, the hosts of the podcast SLP Happy Hour, about how to get some of that headspace back. They share what they've learned from producing a show about healthy work and personal lives for SLPs for more than two years.

Plus, we’re joined again by our featured voice on tech, Sean Sweeney. He shares how to use apps that help with mindfulness in your sessions or treatment plans.

AAE is a language variation. Maybe you've heard it called a dialect. It sounds different from Mainstream American English. It has its own rules and its own grammar, and it comes from a long language tradition. But when AAE is not recognized, it can be misdiagnosed as a language disorder.

Covering everything from misdiagnosis in the classroom to the connection between language and identity, our panel of experts discusses the language variation known as African American English.

Oluo is the author of the best-selling book "So You Want to Talk About Race." In it, she addresses complex issues—from history to intersectionality to hair—to start a conversation about race and racism in America.

At the ASHA Convention, she joined ASHA Voices host J.D. Gray and 2018 ASHA President Elise Davis-McFarland for a discussion after Oluo gave the ASHA Office of Multicultural Affairs’ 50th Anniversary Address.

We talk to dysphagia expert Lori Burkhead Morgan. With a background in exercise science, the speech-language pathologist brings an interdisciplinary lens to dysphagia treatment. Next, Purdue University’s Georgia Malandraki describes the new tool she’s developed so SLPs don’t have to send bulky, expensive machinery home with patients. And, consultant Emily Homer offers guidance on building strong feeding and swallowing services in school districts.

We talk with Jeff Holt and Tina Stankovic, scientists on the forefront of hearing research. Jeff discusses an unexpected discovery that tied a specific gene to a genetic form of hearing loss. And Tina describes her investigations into ways to reverse sensorineural hearing loss—the most common type. What are the obstacles and possible solutions?

Both talked with me at the 2019 ASHA Convention, where they presented at the Research Symposium on Hearing.

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Then, we hear from Bob Hillman, recipient of the 2019 Alfred K. Kawana Award for Lifetime Achievement in Publications. We talk about the twist in his path that changed everything in his work with the voice and voice disorders.

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Also, technology is making it easier to connect with clients and students from afar. We talk telepractice with Tracy Sippl. Her experience as a telepractice consultant to schools guides our conversation about this tech-based technique.

And on the audiology horizon, research audiologist Liz Convery suggests the emergence of self-fitting hearing devices may be an opportunity, rather than a threat.

Also, we’re joined by fluency expert Joe Donaher to talk about voluntary stuttering, a treatment tool that he says can relieve some of the anxiety that can come with a fluency issue.

This week on the podcast, we talk to a neural engineer. His research into how we hear and communicate may lead to a fix for the cocktail party problem by allowing people to highlight a specific voice in a crowd.

Also, we hear about a new tool from the Ida Institute called My Hearing Explained. We talk about how this new tool goes beyond the audiogram to show real-world effects of hearing loss.

Alexander will receive the 2019 Annie Glenn Award for his work with SAY at the next month's ASHA Convention in Orlando. Also presenting at convention is a researcher we'll hear from later in the episode. Joined by a former colleague, they'll tell us what MRIs of beatboxers could teach us about speech.

This episode brings you guests you can see in person when you attend the ASHA Convention, held November 21 to 23. Registration is open.

Acronym Guide:

PDPM - Patient Driven Payment Model; SNF - Skilled Nursing Facility; CMS - Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; RUG-IV - Resource Utilization Group; MDS - Minimum Data Set