In this episode of the "Swallow Your Pride" podcast, bilingual SLP Margarita Guzman shares her expertise on pediatric feeding disorders in early intervention. She discusses the vital role of SLPs, the importance of early identification, and practical steps—ensuring safety, functional feeding observation, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Margarita emphasizes family-centered care, the need for more specialized training, and offers resources for clinicians. She also introduces her platform, Koosman SLP, dedicated to empowering providers with evidence-based tools. The conversation highlights the challenges families face and the importance of empathy and teamwork in supporting children with feeding difficulties.

Get the show notes at: https://syppodcast.com/387

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In this powerful episode of Swallow Your Pride, caregiver and author Diane Wolff shares the real-life journey that transformed her mother’s dysphagia diagnosis into a mission to empower millions of families. Diane reveals the practical, step-by-step systems she created to help caregivers feel confident feeding their loved ones safely, from setting up a dysphagia-friendly kitchen, to batch cooking with dignity in mind, to bringing joy and variety back to mealtimes.

Get the show notes: https://syppodcast.com/386

Buy the book: https://amzn.to/3KC6q8O
Visit the website: https://www.cookingfordysphagia.com

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In this episode of "Swallow Your Pride," host Theresa Richard brings together a panel of NIH-funded researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to unpack the complexity of diagnosing and treating motor speech disorders after left-hemisphere stroke. Theresa Richard guides a conversation that demystifies the overlap between apraxia of speech, dysarthria, and aphasia, highlights the challenges clinicians face in acute and subacute care, and introduces innovative assessment tools designed to bring more objectivity and clarity to real-world practice. The team shares emerging findings, practical insights for SLPs across the continuum of care, and a look at how new perceptual and acoustic measures may shape the future of stroke-related speech assessment.

Links mentioned in the show:

UNC Center for Aphasia and Related Disorder's Lab website (includes information on our research and helpful therapy resources regarding aphasia, communication partner training, and aphasia-friendly print materials): https://www.med.unc.edu/healthsciences/sphs/card/
Tools Available for Speech Therapists for Assessment...
Word Information Measure and Moving Average Type Token Ratio (Shiny App): https://unccard.shinyapps.io/WIM_MATTR/
Word Complexity Measure (Shiny App): https://unccard.shinyapps.io/shiny-woRdcomplex-2/
Word Complexity Measure Ratio (Shiny App): https://unccard.shinyapps.io/shiny-wcmRatio/

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