Your patient had a stroke or TBI, and now they’re referred to speech therapy. The nurses reported language difficulties, so you know to grab an aphasia assessment.

But many times, we just don’t have the resources or time to complete a full aphasia battery. They can cost hundreds of dollars, which our employers are unwilling to spend. And they can take hours to compl...

Has this ever happened to you: a new patient shows signs and symptoms of dysphagia, so you recommend a videofluoroscopic swallowing study. Their swallow seems fine during the study, but you just know something else is going on.

One possibility is muscle tension dysphagia (MTDg).

MTDg is increasingly recognized by speech therapy professiona...

When we were new clinicians, we were terrified that our patients would aspirate. In our minds, aspiration = pneumonia. And pneumonia was something we wanted to avoid at all costs.

Luckily for us (and our patients!), our approach to dysphagia has significantly changed. Cue the work of Dr. John Ashford. His framework, called “Three Pillars of Bacterial Aspiration Pneu...

Cluttering is a fluency disorder that is underdiagnosed in adults. It may be overlooked or confused with stuttering or a motor speech disorder. However, cluttering can significantly reduce speech intelligibility, affecting communication in the workplace and overall speaking confidence.

The potential negative impact of cluttering makes it all the more important for u...