Keys for SLPs

Episode 49: Keys to Successfully Pivoting during Your Medical SLP Career

August 12th, 2022  |  1 hr 9 mins

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Guest: Kimry Schwarz, M.S., CCC-SLP - She describes her journey as a medical SLP and business owner. Kimry highlights the need for flexibility across settings and reflects on the need to pivot during the COVID-19 pandemic. Kimry shares wisdom learned along the way that is helpful to the early career professionals and SLPs contemplating career shifts.

Episode 48: Keys to Improving Speech Clarity of People with Down Syndrome with LSVT LOUD

July 28th, 2022  |  1 hr 13 mins

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Guests: Jennifer Gray MS, CCC-SLP, and Sarah Bookout, MA, CCC-SLP - They discuss evidence that supports the use of the LSVT LOUD to improve the communication skills of children and adults with Down Syndrome. They describe how to tailor LSVT LOUD to meet each individual’s communication needs. This dynamic team discusses communication challenges and offers strategies to use with clients to improve clarity and promote independence.

Episode 47: Keys to Telepractice with Clients with Aphasia

July 15th, 2022  |  1 hr 4 mins

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Guest: Genevieve Richardson, MS, CCC-SLP: In this episode, Genevieve reviews the keys to successful telepractice with adult clients and takes a deep dive into evidence-based aphasia therapy across the miles. She takes the listener through assessment, functional goal-setting, practical therapy strategies, and maximizing therapy sessions to meet the needs of clients with aphasia.

Episode 46: Keys to 10 Ways to Optimize Your Success as an SLP

June 30th, 2022  |  1 hr 5 mins

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Guest: Mattie Murrey Tegels, MA, CCC-SLP, CLSC - This course features professional skills that the SLP needs to not just do her career but live her career and really be a successful SLP. This conversational format explores professional skills or soft skills that the SLP needs and didn’t necessarily have the opportunity to learn in graduate school.

Episode 45: Keys to Transferring States as an SLP

June 13th, 2022  |  1 hr 5 mins

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Guests: Michelle Neilson, MS, CCC-SLP, and Megan Whelan, MS, CCC-SLP, QOM/COM - In this conversational format, they share their experiences and strategies to make moving as an SLP an ideal experience. Megan and Michelle discuss how to network, prioritize job requirements, and advance your career when moving frequently.

Episode 44: Keys to Accent Modification

May 27th, 2022  |  1 hr 3 mins

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Guest: Kari Lim, M.S., CCC-SLP - In this conversational format, Kari describes her journey into accent modification and shares techniques used to work with clients to enhance communication.

Episode 43: Keys to Working with the Professional Voice User - Erin Donahue, MA, CCC-SLP

May 19th, 2022  |  1 hr 3 mins

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Guest: Erin Donahue, MA, CCC-SLP - This conversational format focuses on working with the professional voice, including the elite vocal professional or vocal athlete. Erin identifies the specific needs of the professional voice user and provides recommendations to optimize vocal health, use and longevity. In addition, this discussion provides information to help student clinicians and SLPs who would like to specialize in voice.

Episode 42: Keys to Recovery after TBI: A Story of Friendship, Resilience, and Self-Advocacy - Laura Morgan, MS, CCC-SLP, CBIS and Anna Zolkowski, MA, CCC-SLP, CBIS

May 12th, 2022  |  1 hr 5 mins

Guest: Laura Morgan, MS, CCC-SLP, CBIS, and Anna Zolkowski, MA, CCC-SLP, CBIS - This conversational format explores one TBI survivor and her close friend’s shared experience and clinical observations from “both sides of the Speech-Language Pathology table.” Laura Morgan and Anna Zolkowski met in their clinical fellowship year.

Episode 41: Keys to Expanding the Role of SLPs and AuDs in Sports Concussion Management - Tabia Pope, PhD, CCC-SLP

May 5th, 2022  |  57 mins 40 secs

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Guest: Tabia Pope, Ph.D., CCC-SLP - This conversational format explores how everyone can play a part in advocating for the inclusion of our profession in sports concussion management regardless of knowledge level and employment setting. Dr. Pope discusses how to choose a plan of action consistent with your knowledge and attitudes, current employment setting, and community outreach initiatives. She highlights how SLPs and AuDs are influencing educational, scientific, and charitable initiatives within their communities by applying interprofessional education and collaborative practices to concussion management.

Episode 40: Keys to Inclusive Post Secondary Education: A Parent’s Perspective - Lourdes Rahn

April 29th, 2022  |  59 mins 1 sec

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Guest: Lourdes Rahn - Lourdes describes the family’s journey through diagnosis, early intervention, elementary school, middle school, high school, and now inclusive post-secondary education. Lourdes explains the emotional rollercoaster ride that comes with parenting a child with diverse learning and encourages others to keep hope alive during challenging times. She celebrates her son’s accomplishments and encourages him to dream big, including attending a four-year college program. The family’s story is an inspiration to people with diverse learning and their families as well as therapists and teachers.

Episode 39: Keys to Recruiting and Retaining Men in Speech-Language Pathology - Matt Easley. MA, CCC-SLP, CBIS and Perry Flynn M.Ed., CCC-SLP, BCCLS

April 14th, 2022  |  54 mins 53 secs

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Guests: Matt Easley. MA, CCC-SLP, CBIS, and Perry Flynn M.Ed., CCC-SLP, BCCLS - The conversational format provides ideas for recruiting and retaining more men in the profession. In addition, Perry and Matt challenge the audience to join in the effort to increase awareness of SLP and actively recruit minorities, specifically men, to the profession.

Episode 38: Keys to Managing Caregiver Stress and Burnout - Renee Garrett, MSEd, CCC-SLP, CBIS

March 31st, 2022  |  58 mins 16 secs

Guest: Renee Garrett, MSEd, CCC-SLP, CBIS - This course explores caregiving's emotional, financial, and legal aspects. Caregiver stress and burnout are discussed in this conversational format. Renee considers caregivers' role as crucial support for many chronically ill or acutely ill patients. Caregiving is not limited to one age, one disease process, or one progressive neurological disease. SLPs can provide more effective patient and family/caregiver education and support by identifying resources and solutions.

Episode 37: Keys to Optimizing Your Success as an SLP - Mattie Murrey Tegels, MA, CCC-SLP, CLSC

March 24th, 2022  |  1 hr 1 min

Guest: Mattie Murrey Tegels, MA, CCC-SLP, CLSC - This conversational format explores the professional skills that SLPs need for building their personal, clinical, and career foundations, thereby optimizing their success from the beginning of their practice.
Mattie discusses the top 10 professional skills needed for SLPs to establish a strong SLP presence in their setting and optimize their success as an SLP and as part of an interdisciplinary team. These professional skills have been categorized into three highly effective categories that support the SLP as an individual, support an SLP as a professional, and support an SLP in a career. Topics include skills such as rapport building, SLP counseling, partner coaching, conflict resolution, decision making, schedule and time management, self-advocacy, and overcoming Imposter Syndrome. This series of courses are researched based and is effective in increasing the overall implementation of professional skills critical for a successful SLP career.

Episode 33: Keys to a Holistic Approach to Dysphagia Management - Samantha Shune, PhD, CCC-SLP

March 14th, 2022  |  1 hr 4 mins

Guest: Samantha Shune, PhD, CCC-SLP - This conversational format explores the biopsychosocial disability that results from dysphagia, influencing both the individual and larger family system. In particular, Samantha will discuss the profound impacts dysphagia has on the caregiver and highlight a new screening tool available to probe for dysphagia-related caregiver burden. By framing swallowing within the broader contexts of eating/mealtime and socialization, speech-language pathologists can target dysphagia more holistically, improving health and quality of life for the individuals and their families.

Episode 35: Keys to A Holistic Approach to Evaluating and Treating EI-PVFM - Sharon D. Frank, MA, CCC-SLP

March 11th, 2022  |  53 mins 43 secs

Guest: Sharon D. Frank, MA, CCC-SLP - This course features an introduction to a holistic approach to treating Exercise-Induced Paradoxical Vocal Fold Motion (EI-PVFM), which is a complex upper airway disorder that occurs in some athletes and is often misdiagnosed as exercise-induced asthma (EIA). Sharon first discusses the nature of EI-PVFM, its signs and symptoms, and how it differentiates from EIA. She then gives an overview of Buteyko breathing principles and compares them to traditional therapy methods. Finally, she describes the four components of a holistic treatment approach, the rationale, and benefits for using this approach, and shares some preliminary pre- and post-therapy data outcomes measures.

Episode 36: Keys to Student's Perspective on Cultural Responsiveness and Gender Inclusivity - Alistair Trisorus

March 9th, 2022  |  1 hr 2 mins

Guest: Alistair Trisorus - This conversational format explores how to support graduate students in the classroom and clinic with cultural responsiveness and gender-inclusive practices. Alistair begins by introducing terminology and ideas related to gender diversity. Next, they open up about their own gender and some of the daily struggles they face because of their identity. Next, narrowing the focus to the professional realm, Alistair discusses cultural humility, the related concept of cultural humility, and why they are important. Finally, Alistair reflects on their experience being a transgender student and student clinician in the field of speech-language pathology and explores ways in which professors and clinical supervisors can support their students of all genders to promote a more inclusive environment in the clinic and classroom.