ASHA Voices

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
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ASHA Voices Podcast

A show about how we communicate and how that communication changes our lives.

  1. AUG 29

    A Promising Outlook for Gene Therapy and Hearing Loss

    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 (https://www.asha.org/research/research-symposium-on-hearing/)ASHA Voices: Revisiting Conversations on Gene Therapy and Hearing Loss (https://leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/2022-0303-podcast-gene-therapy-one/full/)First Deaf Gene Therapy Recipient in U.S. Gains Hearing (https://leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/2024-0124-auds-gene-therapy/full/)

    26 min

  2. AUG 15

    How A Spinal Muscular Atrophy Breakthrough Created a Greater Need for SLPs

    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 (https://leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/2024-0620-podcast-slp-caregiver-provider-interactions/full/)Dysphagia Phenotypes in Spinal Muscular Atrophy: The Past, Present, and Promise for the Future (https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2021_AJSLP-20-00217)ASHA Evidence Map: Spinal Muscular Atrophy (https://apps.asha.org/EvidenceMaps/Articles/ArticleSummary/3e522d91-4d59-4045-a4d2-fe7ee212a19d)Transcript

    28 min

  3. AUG 8

    Inclusion and Retention in Higher Education

    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 Learning (https://pubs.asha.org/special-collections/crtl)* Perspectives Forum Highlights Holistic Admissions (https://academy.pubs.asha.org/2022/04/perspectives-forum-highlights-holistic-admissions/)* Minnesota CSD Program Formalizes Support for Students of Color (https://leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/leader.AE.28012023.DEI-support-academics.32/full/)* From My Perspective/Opinion: Advancing Justice, Equity in the Pipeline to the Professions (https://leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/leader.FMP.26082021.8/full/)* ASHA Voices: HBCU Leaders Share Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Underrepresented Students in CSD (https://leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/2022-0512-podcast-diversity-higher-ed/full/)Transcript

    17 min

  4. AUG 1

    A Conversation on Holistic Admissions

    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 Admissions (https://academy.pubs.asha.org/2022/04/perspectives-forum-highlights-holistic-admissions/)* ASHAWire Special Collection: Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning (https://pubs.asha.org/special-collections/crtl)* Minnesota CSD Program Formalizes Support for Students of Color (https://leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/leader.AE.28012023.DEI-support-academics.32/full/)* From My Perspective/Opinion: Advancing Justice, Equity in the Pipeline to the Professions (https://leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/leader.FMP.26082021.8/full/)* ASHA Voices: HBCU Leaders Share Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Underrepresented Students in CSD (https://leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/2022-0512-podcast-diversity-higher-ed/full/)Transcript: A Conversation on Holistic Admissions (https://leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/2024-0801-transvoices-blog-recruitment-holistic-admissions/full/)

    27 min

  5. JUL 18

    Career Origin Stories - Multilingual Service Providers

    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 (https://leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/2024-0328-podcast-SLP-multilingual-service-delivery/full/)Practice Portal: Multilingual Service Providers (https://www.asha.org/practice-portal/professional-issues/multilingual-service-delivery/multilingual-service-providers/)Practice Portal: Multilingual Service Delivery (https://www.asha.org/practice-portal/professional-issues/multilingual-service-delivery/)Transcript: Career Origin Stories - Multilingual Service Providers (https://leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/2024-0718-transvoices-slp-multilingual-origin-stories)

    25 min

  6. JUN 20

    Exploring Caregiver-Provider Interactions

    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?) (https://www.caffeinatedcaregivers.com/articles/what-does-it-mean-to-be-disability-informed-and-why-does-that-matter/)ASHA Voices: The Critical But Unseen Social Determinants of Health (https://leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/2022-0217-podcast-social-determinants-pediatric-feeding/full/)ASHA Leader: Rethinking Pediatric Feeding ... Language (https://leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/leader.OTP.28112023.feeding-language-slps.40/full/)Pediatric Feeding Partners (https://www.pediatricfeedingpartners.com/)

    31 min

  7. JUN 6

    Student Advocacy and A Win for People Who Stutter

    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 (https://leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/2021-1209-podcast-kidd-gilchrist/full/)2024 Advocacy Wins: Keeping Pace: State Legislative and Regulatory Updates for Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (https://www.asha.org/news/2024/2024-state-legislative-updates-for-audiologists-and-speech-language-pathologists/)Episode Transcript: ASHA Voices: Student Advocacy and a Win for People Who Stutter (https://leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/2024-0606-transvoices-slp-advocacy-stuttering-kentucky)

    25 min

  8. MAY 23

    Conversations on Milestones and Speech-Language Delays

    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” (https://leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/leader.FTR1.29052024.slp-andemic-delays.42/full/) by SLP Liza StahnkeASHA's Developmental Milestones: Birth to 5 Years (https://www.asha.org/public/developmental-milestones/)Episode transcript: ASHA Voices: Conversations on Milestones and Speech-Language Delays (https://leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/2024-0523-transvoices-speech-delays-milestones/full/)

    23 min
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4.2
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60 Ratings

About

A show about how we communicate and how that communication changes our lives.

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  • Creator
    American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2024
  • Episodes
    153
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2024 ASHA Voices

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