Swallow the Gap: Dysphagia and Medical SLP
Swallow the Gap is a podcast for medically focused speech-language pathologists (medical SLPs), with a primary focus on improving the evaluation and treatment of swallowing disorders, or dysphagia.
Episodes feature clinicians, researchers, and educators discussing dysphagia and related medical SLP topics, including modified barium swallow studies (MBS), flexible / fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES), dysphagia rehabilitation, compensatory strategies, aspiration pneumonia, head and neck cancer, cranial nerves, neurological foundations of communication and swallowing disorders, critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and more.
Join us as a force for change by inspiring critical thinking, facilitating discussion, and supporting professional development for clinicians involved in the evaluation and treatment of patients with aerodigestive disorders.
Hosted by Timothy (Tim) Stockdale, SLPD, CCC-SLP, a medical speech-language pathologist and educator in the MedSLP community.
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Swallow the Gap: Dysphagia and Medical SLP
Latest Episodes
The Cough That Won't Stop: Understanding Chronic Refractory Cough
Episode details: Many SLPs think of cough as an airway protection mechanism, something patients either have too little of or manage fine. Dr. Miranda Wright, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Florida's Breathe Center, works with...
Diagnose and adios? Stay a while longer, my friend.
Diagnose, stabilize, and move on to the next chart. That's a common model in acute care, but it's the one this team walked away from. One patient sat trached, decannulated, retrached, and off food, stuck until his care team decided the plan was...
Demonstrate, Advocate: Bring Your Value to Multidisciplinary Settings
What does it look like to bring value as a speech-language pathologist when productivity demands are real and time is limited?In this episode, I talk with Jaimie Anderson, SLP and clinical researcher at one of the nation’s first multidis...
What You May Have Missed in Grad School: Why So Many Clinicians Feel Underprepared
Why do so many clinicians feel underprepared when they first begin treating dysphagia?In a discussion that applies to SLPs in various settings, Dr. Jordan Hazelwood and I dive into challenges students face when transitioning from theory ...
When the Walls Come Down: Cognitive Care in Real Life
This discussion explores what cognitive communication therapy can look like when it moves beyond worksheets and test scores. Guest Lauren Schwabish, an SLP with more than two decades of experience, explains how shifting into community-based pra...
