Practical and Applicable Solutions: How SLPs Benefited from ASHA Health Care Connect
SLPs came to ASHA’s Health Care Connect conference ready to learn about dysphagia, head and neck cancer, Parkinson’s disease, concussion, delirium—and much more. Across three days of sessions, SLPs heard how their unique skills and training prepared them to work as an integral part of multidisciplinary teams.
Editor’s note: This is part two of a series on tips SLPs learned at ASHA Connect 2018. Read part one for insights heard from attendees of the schools’ sessions.
Ruth Snyder, an SLP and solo practitioner in Jacksonville, Florida, began her Friday morning at Vivian Sisskin’s session, “Differential ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 24, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Jillian Kornak Tags: Academia & Research Events Health Care Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology dementia Dysphagia Parkinson's Speech Disorders Source Type: blogs
Watch what happens when " pericarditis " and morphine cloud your judgment
Submitted and written by Alex Bracey with edits by Pendell Meyers and Steve SmithCaseA 50ish year old man with a history of CAD w/ prior LAD MI s/p LAD stenting presented to the ED with chest pain “similar to his prior MI, but worse.” The pain initially started the daypriorto presentation. The pain roused him from sleep but subsided without intervention. Around 19 hours later, he experienced the same pain, which prompted his presentation to the ED. By this time, three hours had passed from the onset of the pain but it was no longer present. Here is his initial ECG:00:04What do you think? - Sinus rhythm at ~70 bpmSTE in...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - July 3, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
Balancing the Polarity of Stuttering Treatment With Client Goals
I recently sat in a discussion group with two fluency experts, a handful of speech-language pathologists and parents of people who stutter. Part of our discussion—on the “opposites” inherent in the experience and treatment of stuttering—really struck me. As I pondered the notion of opposites, my mind went to physics and the concept of polarity—the presence of two opposite or contrasting tendencies.
For me, the clearest expression of polarity in stuttering involves the inner struggle between wanting to speak fluently and the opposing force of not achieving fluency. The more conscious control over speaking is attem...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 2, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Ana Paula Mumy Tags: Advocacy Health Care Private Practice Slider Speech-Language Pathology Fluency Disorders stuttering Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 242
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Question 1
Is stuttering more common in boys or girls?
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 22, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Mark Corden Tags: Frivolous Friday Five ASS Austin flint austin flint murmur botulism botulus breath sounds broncho-vesicular King George VI sausage stuttering TLA TOF tonsil guillotine Source Type: blogs
Children Who Stutter Speak Out to Build Awareness, Confidence
This past March, seven children who stutter spoke to a crowd that included their parents and 50 graduate students in an effort to deepen others’ understanding of how stuttering affects their lives. They facilitated this “Increasing Stuttering Awareness” event with me and Northwestern University graduate students studying speech, language and learning. The event was held at the Northwestern University Center for Audiology, Speech, Language and Learning (NUCASLL).
The children led presentations on important aspects of stuttering and concluded with a Q&A session. The idea for the event came from one of th...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - May 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Meaghan Moriarty Tags: Academia & Research Health Care News Private Practice Slider Speech-Language Pathology Fluency Disorders Speech Disorders stuttering Source Type: blogs
The Care and Feeding of Monsters
I recently had the surreal but entirely positive experience of revisiting my book on the occasion of its release, ten years after publication, in audiobook form. I began listening as a kind of quality check, bracing myself for the voice actor to introduce “Shooler’s Monster”. (He didn’t; he was actually a fantastic actor, and I couldn’t be more pleased that he was the one who got to spend nine hours in a recording booth instead of me. You were all spared my stuttering, monotone twang. You’re welcome.) I began listening to the first chapte r, and then, like a drunk who blacks out and then wakes up the next day p...
Source: Schuyler's Monster: The Blog - May 6, 2018 Category: Disability Authors: Robert Rummel-Hudson Source Type: blogs
What the ABIM, ACC, and Facebook Have in Common
Mr. Mark Zuckerberg, uncomfortably stuttering and stammering before Senator Cantwell about a little-known company named Palantir (aka "Stanford Analytica"), reminded me of a similar moment when Christine Cassel, MD from the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) had to answer questions about her affiliations Premier, Inc., a nd Kaiser Foundation Health Plans and Hospitals upon taking the helm (Source: Dr. Wes)
Source: Dr. Wes - April 13, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Westby G. Fisher, MD Source Type: blogs
What the ABIM, ACC, and Facebook Have in Common
Mr. Mark Zuckerberg, uncomfortably stuttering and stammering before Senator Cantwell about a little-known company named Palantir (aka "Stanford Analytica"), reminded me of a similar moment when Christine Cassel, MD from the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) had to answer questions abou t her affiliations Premier, Inc., and Kaiser Foundation Health Plans and Hospitals upon taking the (Source: Dr. Wes)
Source: Dr. Wes - April 13, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: DrWes Source Type: blogs
The Only Cause Of Stress (and how you beat it)
You gaze down through the open window at the sparkling Ionia sea resplendent in the late summer sun.
Your taxi weaves itself dexterously down the narrow mountain road from Vrachionas, the highest point on the Greek island of Zakynthos.
The sun twinkles and a hundred shades of azure bounce back from the gently lapping waves.
High above a Cory’s Shearwater banks and weaves barely beating it’s long brown wings as it scans the turquoise waters for an afternoon snack.
It would gladly feast on an octopus like the one you had eaten the night before at the quiet beachfront taverna. But it probably wouldn’t care for ...
Source: A Daring Adventure - February 7, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Life Coaching Stress Management cause of stress Source Type: blogs
What Exactly Does ‘ Access to the Curriculum ’ Mean?
Editor’s note: This post is the response to a question posed to Marie Ireland about her recent ASHA Leader feature on how audiologists and speech-language pathologists can and should advocate for their professions.
Question from Kathleen Reagan, MA, CCC-SLP:
I just read your article in the ASHA Leader titled “Our Voices are Powerful.” I am curious about one thing you mentioned. In the paragraph after SLP shortages, you say, “students must have a documented impairment, as well as a lack of access to the curriculum.”
What would that lack of access look like? How do we know a student has a lack of a...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - January 22, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Marie Ireland Tags: Advocacy Speech-Language Pathology Schools Source Type: blogs
How to Start Conversations with Strangers
How do you enter conversations with people you don’t know?
I grew up with gregarious parents and have enthusiastically emulated them. Although my mother referred to herself as shy, I never observed her that way. She seemed to be able to engage with people in various scenarios. My father was raised in South Philly (home of the iconic pugilist character Rocky) where talking to people on the stoop or street corner was commonplace. He learned how to communicate with those from all walks of life from his own blue collar, working class sensibilities. No matter where our family went, it seems my father always knew someone,...
Source: World of Psychology - January 17, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW Tags: Anxiety and Panic Friends General Habits Happiness Personality Relationships Self-Help Communication Making Friends Meeting People Social Anxiety Source Type: blogs
" This is not a Subtle ECG, right? "
A reader texted this ECG without any clinical information, with the question:" This is not a Subtle ECG, right? "My response:" No! Activate! "The reader reported that this ECG was not recognized as abnormal and that he himself had found it at the doctor ' s station shortly after it was recorded. The reader was concerned about the towering anterior T-waves and the small S-waves in V2 and V3.The computer read it as benign early repolarization and the treating physician did not notice that it might be something else.The reader activated the cath lab.The reader asked another doc for whom he has great respect to look...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - January 2, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
Thoughts and Prayers
Last month marked the five year anniversary of the shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. Newtown has become a word loaded with political implications. Gun control, left vs right, state's rights, 2nd Amendment rights, NRA, concealed carry laws, assault rifles, semi-automatic, ammunition limits, etc etc. Time passes and the wordNewtownis sheared of any connection to real life events. It becomes something abstract and conceptual, a nagging insolvable that one wearies of wrestling with and so we quietly put it to rest, close the lid, forget the events that gave meaning to the...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - January 2, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
The 1000th Thread!
This is the 1000th presentation to my bioethics blog since starting on Google Blogspot.com in 2004.There has been many topics covered. Though comments by the visitors has always been encouraged and, since as a "discussion blog", comments leading to discussions I have felt was the definitive function here. Virtually none of the thread topics have gone unread and most have had some commentary, some with mainly particularly strong and emphatic opinions http://bioethicsdiscussion.blogspot.com/2013/01/should-pathologists-be-physicians.html, some with extensive up to 12 years long continued discussion http://bioethicsdiscussion....
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 24, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Maurice Bernstein, M.D. Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
The 1000th Thread!
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Source: Bioethics Discussion Blog - December 24, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: blogs
