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

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)

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/)

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)

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/)

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