Clinical confidence for medical SLPs.
Swallow Your Pride Podcast keeps medical SLPs close to the practical edge of swallowing and communication care. Recent episodes point toward dysphagia rehabilitation, FEES implementation, Parkinson’s-related swallow research, caregiver support, thickened liquids, billing changes, and clinical decision-making that can affect tomorrow’s patient encounter.
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Swallow Your Pride Podcast is a specialist show for medical SLPs working with swallowing, voice, communication, and complex adult care. Its center of gravity is dysphagia, but the recent episode slate shows a wider clinical map. Cervical auscultation sits beside thickened liquids. Exercise science informs swallowing rehabilitation. Parkinson’s research becomes a question of respiratory-swallow coordination. A billing proposal becomes part of daily practice, not an abstract policy item. The show is especially interested in the points where evidence meets implementation. It asks what clinicians can actually do with new research, new tools, and new conversations once they are back with patients, caregivers, and care teams. The pacing is brisk. The vocabulary assumes a listener who knows the medical SLP world: FEES, MBS, TEP candidacy, laryngectomy, neuroplasticity, cognitive communication, voice rehab, and standardized testing all appear naturally. That makes the show dense, but not detached. A caregiver-focused episode, for example, lingers on purees, home kitchens, seasonal variety, holiday meals, and making food match the needs and desires of a loved one with a swallowing condition. The clinical lens stays human. Training and continuing education are also part of the show’s ecosystem, with repeated attention to MedSLP Collective simulations, practice labs, ASHA CEUs, and recorded sessions. Teresa Richard frames the podcast as a place for medical SLPs to move away from outdated habits and practice at the top of their license. Recent episodes support that identity with very practical concerns: equipment choices, ROI, diagnostic accuracy, counseling, documentation that can be used the next morning, and patient function beyond scores. It is a professional podcast, but it has momentum. The result is a focused, clinician-to-clinician resource for SLPs who want swallowing care to be more evidence-informed, more functional, and more responsive to real life.
Made for: This show is for medical SLPs, dysphagia clinicians, and speech-language pathology professionals working with swallowing, voice, cognitive communication, FEES, MBS, laryngectomy care, or adult rehabilitation. It also fits clinicians who want practical continuing education tied to real patient function.
What sets it apart: Swallow Your Pride Podcast stands out by keeping dysphagia care tightly connected to implementation: equipment, billing, caregiver education, counseling, diagnostic setup, and next-day clinical decisions. It combines evidence-based practice language with concrete examples from medical SLP work.
The Swallow Your Pride Podcast was created with the purpose of diving deeper into the issues that speech-language pathologists face when working with patients with swallowing disorders. We’ll discuss many controversial topics in order to provide the LATEST evidence-based treatment strategies, and create a community of dysphagia clinicians who want to consume incredibly valuable insight and information. Our goal is to allow you to #swallowyourpride, and be open and willing to try the latest in evidence based treatment approaches by learning from experts and researchers in our field in order to create the best outcomes for our patients who need it most. The Swallow Your Pride Podcast is hosted…
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A caregiver-minded introduction to making texture-modified meals varied, personal and recognizable.
Caregivers supporting someone with a swallowing condition will find a practical, home-cook perspective on texture-modified food. Author and primary caregiver Diane explains how piped pureed broccoli can still look like broccoli, rather than an anonymous bowl of puree.
Mobile FEES becomes a grounded story about clinical connection, rural access, and the hard work of getting decision-makers to engage.
A mobile FEES business becomes a grounded look at clinical connection as two clinicians describe moving between facilities, families, and the gatekeepers who can determine whether care is easy to reach.
A fast questionnaire becomes a warning about how misunderstood questions can distort care.
Health literacy comes into focus through an ordinary clinical task: filling out a questionnaire. Dr. Zarek recalls seeing a patient finish the Voice Handicap Index in about 30 seconds, only to learn the patient had not understood most of it and had picked an answer just to move…
Cardiology evidence with the caveats intact.
Emergency evidence, tested against resus practice.
Plain-spoken health talk with a metabolic edge.
Practical anesthesia safety, one case at a time.
Surgery, mentorship, and life in training.
Dr. Zraick explains why low health literacy is one of the strongest predictors of poor patient outcomes.
Leon and Ana reveal how their idea for a mobile FEES business was repeatedly shut down by hospitals before they even began.
A deep dive into ALS-related dysphagia and airway management with Dr.
Carly Negrin, an SLP with two decades in a cardiac ICU at Nemours Children's Health, reports that 58% of surveyed centers use FEES with infants with critical CHD.
An interview with Julie Cichero discussing the evidence and clinical application of cervical auscultation in dysphagia assessment.
This episode explores the surprising truth about thickened liquids and what patients really want, featuring insights from Naturally Nectar.
This episode promotes upcoming MedSLP Collective events and courses on dysphagia, laryngectomy, cognitive communication, and voice therapy.
This episode promotes upcoming MedSLP Collective events and courses, including simulations on laryngectomy, cognitive communication assessment, and advanced voice therapy.
Swallow Your Pride Podcast host Teresa Richard interviews Rabab about respiratory-swallow coordination, swallowing impairment, and clinical assessment in Parkinson’s disease.
Diane, an author who became her mother's primary caregiver, explains how her experience led to Cooking for Dysphagia and Other Swallowing Disorders, a Mayo Clinic Press guide to building a dysphagia kitchen.
Teresa Richard interviews Connor Dautridge, Katerina Haley, and Adam Jacks about an NIH-funded study of speech profiles and cue responsiveness after left-hemisphere stroke.
Teresa Richard hosts Shane, a Reflux Gourmet representative, for a discussion of alginate therapy, reflux symptoms, and product use.
Teresa Richard interviews Ross Dunbar, CEO and co-founder of Progea Medical, and George Barnes, the company’s chief dysphagia officer, about devices for measuring and strengthening tongue function.
Beth McHose, a Lingraphica clinical marketing manager with 14 years as an SLP, argues that SLPs can initiate AAC "even from acute onset" and compares it to giving a stroke patient a walker.
Teresa Richard interviews IndiAide co-founder Alyssa Antcliffe about remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM), which tracks patient adherence between sessions.
Dr.
Speech-language pathologist Nicole Scafura describes moving from New York Medical College adult rotations through early intervention, subacute rehab and a Bronx acute care job to a level four NICU in New York City.
This episode is a practical guide to FEES implementation from equipment to ROI, featuring Sandra A Schwartz MS, CCC-SLP.
Julie Kobak discusses how the choice of MBS chair impacts diagnostic accuracy in swallowing assessments.
This episode previews upcoming MedSLP Collective events and introduces a discussion on congenital heart disease in infants with Nashifa Hooda Momin.
Theresa Richard discusses how speech-language pathologists can secure funding in healthcare settings.