Avsnitt
-
In this second part of our conversation with SLP and health services researcher Jen Oshita, she expands on strategies people with communication disabilities can use to express themselves and more fully participate in their own health care.
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.)
Transcript
-
SLP Jen Oshita provides strategies SLPs can share with people with communication disabilities to facilitate effective communication in health care. She discusses how communication access in health care interactions can contribute to health disparities, and she addresses barriers to care related to communication, such as rushed appointments with providers or the use of confusing medical jargon.
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.)
Transcript
-
Saknas det avsnitt?
-
Hear the personal stories behind Medicaid advocacy, as SLPs share why and how they use their voices to increase reimbursement rates for their peers and secure resources for their clients and patients. From the telephone to the state house, they tell where they go to get their messages heard and how you can do the same.
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
Transcript
-
When Jennifer La Scala was diagnosed with breast cancer, she came face to face with just how overwhelming, dense, and inaccessible patient education materials can be.
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
Read the Transcript
-
SLPs share how mindfulness tools help people focus on the present moment and ease their communication with others.
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 DisordersASHA Voices: Stuttering and Stigma With SLP Derek DanielsJournal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research: Age-Related Hearing Loss, Cognitive Decline, and Social Interaction: Testing a FrameworkRead the Transcript
-
Audiologist Sarah Kingsbury, is asking big questions about what happens to our vestibular system in extreme environments, like when piloting an aircraft or even traveling through space.
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
Transcript
-
We catch up with researchers Jeff Holt and Karen Avraham about the state of gene therapy for addressing hearing loss and deafness. Both are part of the Research Symposium on Hearing at the 2024 ASHA Convention.
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
-
In its most severe forms, spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) was once thought to be unavoidably terminal. But recent developments are allowing those with the disorder to live longer, healthier lives, and today’s guest says this means a greater need for speech-language pathologists' services.
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
Transcript
-
How do you foster an environment that is conducive to retaining students with a diversity of experiences and backgrounds? In this second of two parts, a panel of faculty members from CSD programs discuss recruitment and retention of diverse and under-represented CSD professionals.
Learn More:
ASHAWire Special Collection: Culturally Responsive Teaching and LearningPerspectives Forum Highlights Holistic AdmissionsMinnesota CSD Program Formalizes Support for Students of ColorFrom My Perspective/Opinion: Advancing Justice, Equity in the Pipeline to the ProfessionsASHA Voices: HBCU Leaders Share Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Underrepresented Students in CSDTranscript
-
A panel of faculty members from CSD programs discuss recruitment and retention of diverse and under-represented CSD professionals. In this first of two parts, guests share personal experiences with and insights on holistic admissions.
Learn More:
Perspectives Forum Highlights Holistic AdmissionsASHAWire Special Collection: Culturally Responsive Teaching and LearningMinnesota CSD Program Formalizes Support for Students of ColorFrom My Perspective/Opinion: Advancing Justice, Equity in the Pipeline to the ProfessionsASHA Voices: HBCU Leaders Share Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Underrepresented Students in CSDTranscript: A Conversation on Holistic Admissions
-
Hear career-origin stories from three CSD professionals. From a wooden boat crossing the South China Sea, to a mother’s unexpected suggestion, to a love of language … guests share the parts of their lives that inspired and shaped their careers.
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.
Learn More:
ASHA Voices: A Personal and Professional Look at Multilingualism and CSD
Practice Portal: Multilingual Service Providers
Practice Portal: Multilingual Service Delivery
Transcript: Career Origin Stories - Multilingual Service Providers
-
Hear a conversation with SLP Tovah Feehan, who specializes in pediatric feeding disorders, and the hosts of the Caffeinated Caregivers podcast. Through their podcast and website, Alyssa Nutile and Erica Stearns create community around, advocate for, and highlight the identity of caregivers. Guests discuss provider and caregiver interactions. Hear stories from their lives and work.
Learn More:
Caffeinated Caregivers: What does it mean to be Disability-Informed? (And why does that matter?)
ASHA Voices: The Critical But Unseen Social Determinants of Health
ASHA Leader: Rethinking Pediatric Feeding ... Language
Pediatric Feeding Partners
-
What does it mean to have your voice heard as a part of the legislative process?
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.
Learn More:
ASHA Voices: Athlete and Advocate Michael Kidd-Gilchrist
2024 Advocacy Wins: Keeping Pace: State Legislative and Regulatory Updates for Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology
Episode Transcript: ASHA Voices: Student Advocacy and a Win for People Who Stutter
-
An SLP encounters an increase in speech-language delays following the COVID-19 pandemic. What she finds next is a trend that is larger than she realized, and it may be something you’ve noticed as well.
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.
Learn More:
“Elusive Words: Confronting the Post-Pandemic Skills Gap” by SLP Liza Stahnke
ASHA's Developmental Milestones: Birth to 5 Years
Episode transcript: ASHA Voices: Conversations on Milestones and Speech-Language Delays
-
SLP Derek Daniels says stigmatizing actions, like imitating stuttering, can lead people who stutter to remove themselves from opportunities and create a diminished quality of life. Daniels unpacks an example from his own life to give a glimpse into three different ways people can experience stigma. He shares how SLPs can address stigma in their work, and later in the episode, discusses his research into the intersectional ways people experience stigma.
-
Hear stories from home health SLPs working in three different regions across the country. As more patients choose to receive care at home, SLPs working in the city of Baltimore, the suburbs of Atlanta, and in a rural part of the Midwest share how the places they work influence the ways they provide services and care.
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.
Transcript
-
In this panel discussion, guests address how SLPs can empower themselves to effectively provide their services cross-linguistically. The guests share stories of their personal and professional connections to multilingualism, demonstrating the link between language, identity, and their work.
Transcript
-
SLP Jerry Hoepner discusses the ways SLPs can help patients address barriers to care and connection following a traumatic brain injury.
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.
Transcript
-
SLPs Meg Lico and Kaitlin Hanley from NYU Langone Health share their story of working with Aaron James, the recipient of what’s being billed as the first ever full-eye and partial-face transplant. They describe how they worked with James to reach his goals, such as eating solid foods with his family.
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.
Transcript
-
We’re delving into new research addressing the where and the who of hearing loss in the U.S.
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.
Transcript
- Visa fler
