ASHA Voices
Episodes
Two Audiologists Take the Mic on Podcasting and Their Careers
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Their voices may be familiar to you. Dakota Sharp and Carrie Spangler are both audiologists who host podcasts exploring audiology and hearing through ...
SLPs Share Thoughts on the Future of Stuttering Therapy
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Three SLPs share a vision for where stuttering therapy may be headed. It’s part of a larger collection of ASHA Leader content being published in rec...
A Brief Fall Check-In
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this short episode, we talk ASHA Convention, our podcast archive, and how you can propose ideas for 2026. Thanks for listening, and I’m looking f...
Practical Ways to Boost Patient-Provider Communication in the ICU
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For critically ill patients, what are some practical ways speech-language pathologists can address barriers to communication?Today on the podcast, we ...
How Do Audiologists Counsel Patients Interested in Gene Therapy?
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As an audiologist, what do you say when a patient or client asks to receive gene therapy? The headlines are certainly grabbing public interest, but wh...
SLP Expertise in Action Beyond the Clinic
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When your career or your current role leaves you seeking a new challenge and something fresh, how do you make a change?Speech-language pathologist Rin...
Changes and Trends in Dysphagia Treatment
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From patient decision-making to diet modification to interdisciplinary collaboration, guests share their experience and the trends they’re seeing sh...
A Pioneering SLP Addresses Burn Care
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Patients receiving burn care have dynamic and complex needs, and SLPs can provide key communication and swallowing support during the recovery process...
Researchers Discuss Speech in Noisy Environments, Spatial Awareness, and Bilateral Cochlear Implants
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What information do we receive from the sound around us? Hear thoughts from Matt Goupell (University of Maryland) and Brian Monson (University of Illi...
Supporting Families of Children With Disorders of Consciousness
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guests on this podcast episode characterize work with pediatric disorders of consciousness as a "marathon, not a sprint."Through long stretches of reh...
Looking for Subtleties While Treating Disorders of Consciousness
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Disorders of consciousness, often associated with brain injuries, vary in severity and can include patients who are unresponsive or experiencing confu...
Stories of the People and Moments That Can Shape a Career
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two SLPs share how they arrived where they are today and what they learned along the way.First, Kelly Peña (Rutgers University/former president of AS...
How An SLP’s Son Changed Her Perspective on Disability
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In our second episode recognizing Disability Pride Month and the 35th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Eileen Nordmeyer shares a pe...
Recognizing ADA at 35 With Personal Stories of Disability Advocacy
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In recognition of Disability Pride Month and the 35th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, two CSD professionals share personal stories...
The Role of Two SLPs Following a Unique Face-Transplant Surgery
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
SLPs Meg Lico and Kaitlin Hanley from NYU Langone Health share their story of working with Aaron James, the recipient of what’s being called as the ...
Audiologists Address Ototoxicity in Cancer Care
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When people with cancer are treated with ototoxic drugs and interventions, they may experience hearing loss and tinnitus. The audiologist's role in ad...
Twyla Perryman-Brownlow on Building Skills for Post High School Life
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As we approach graduation season, we’re turning our attention to speech-language pathologists’ role in helping students move from high school to t...
Stuttering and Stigma With SLP Derek Daniels
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
SLP Derek Daniels says stigmatizing actions, like imitating stuttering, can lead people who stutter to remove themselves from opportunities and create...
AI Voices Helping AAC Users—On Stage and In Life
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As a podcast host, husband, and occasional stand-up comedian, Jules Rodriquez uses his voice in many ways. But as a person with ALS, Rodriquez knew in...
After the LA Fires, Learning About AAC and Disaster Preparedness
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AAC users and their families stand to benefit from preparing for natural disasters—like a hurricane, or the recent fires that spread through parts o...
Dysphagia, Communication, and the Challenges of Life in the ICU
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Life in the intensive care unit can be overwhelming. Patients may be intubated, disoriented, and scared. Families may be looking for answers from any ...
The Difference Patient Counseling Makes
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Patients receiving intensive care may experience emotions that affect their care and services. After a traumatic brain injury or tracheostomy, for exa...
5 Years After COVID-19 Hit, Patients With Long COVID Feel ‘Left in the Dust’
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, SLP Rebecca Boersma of George Washington University Hospital’s Long COVID Rehabilitation Clinic...
Preparing the “Vocal Athlete” for Performance
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Singers and other vocal performers can require complex care. As our guests explain, these “vocal athletes” may need a team of interdisciplinary pr...
‘This Too Is a Mask’: A Neurodivergent SLP Confronts Autism and Identity
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Speech-language pathologist Jennifer Cripps-Ludlum says her entire life is a mask.As an adult, she discovered she is neurodivergent. The revelation ar...
What a CSD Professor Learned About Autistic Masking While Creating Neuro-Affirming Spaces
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Autistic masking” refers to concealing or changing aspects of oneself to fit in or generally avoid stigmatization.In her research and work with a...
From Surf Rocker to Research Audiologist, Jim Henry Knows Tinnitus
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the years before Jim Henry became an audiologist, he developed hyperacusis, hearing loss, and tinnitus while performing in surf rock bands and work...
Embracing Your Students’ Strengths—and Your Own
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
SLP Kim Murza visits the podcast with a message of strength.Murza often speaks on strengths-based service delivery. On the podcast, she shares the for...
Preparing Pediatric Audiologists through LEND Programs
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When dealing with a parent’s concern about their child's communication, a pediatric audiologist may face multidisciplinary issues and need to make r...
A Personal and Professional Look at Multilingualism and CSD
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this panel discussion, guests address how SLPs can empower themselves to effectively provide their services cross-linguistically. The guests share ...
Three Empowering Service-Delivery Strategies for School SLPs
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
SLP Christina Bradburn once faced the challenge of a caseload exceeding 100 students.Hear what she learned from that experience and how, today, she em...
Creating 'Ramps' to Communication Access in Health Care
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
SLP Elissa Larkin shares three stories showing how communication strategies--like using communication boards and acknowledging patient competence--hel...
Bonus: More Communication Strategies to Improve Health Care Access
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this second part of our conversation with SLP and health services researcher Jen Oshita, she expands on strategies people with communication disabi...
How SLPs Can Use Communication Strategies to Improve Health Care Access
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
SLP Jen Oshita provides strategies SLPs can share with people with communication disabilities to facilitate effective communication in health care. Sh...
Medicaid Advocacy at the State Level
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hear the personal stories behind Medicaid advocacy, as SLPs share why and how they use their voices to increase reimbursement rates for their peers an...
How a Student's Cancer Diagnosis Spurred Her Work on Cochlear Implant Patient Education
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Jennifer La Scala was diagnosed with breast cancer, she came face to face with just how overwhelming, dense, and inaccessible patient education m...
SLPs on Benefits of Incorporating Mindfulness Into Service Delivery
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
SLPs share how mindfulness tools help people focus on the present moment and ease their communication with others.Michael Boyle (Montclair State Unive...
Audiology, Aerospace, and an Early-Career Innovator
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Audiologist Sarah Kingsbury, is asking big questions about what happens to our vestibular system in extreme environments, like when piloting an aircra...
A Promising Outlook for Gene Therapy and Hearing Loss
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
How A Spinal Muscular Atrophy Breakthrough Created a Greater Need for SLPs
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In its most severe forms, spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) was once thought to be unavoidably terminal. But recent developments are allowing those with t...
Inclusion and Retention in Higher Education
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Conversation on Holistic Admissions
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A panel of faculty members from CSD programs discuss recruitment and retention of diverse and under-represented CSD professionals. In this first of tw...
Career Origin Stories - Multilingual Service Providers
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Exploring Caregiver-Provider Interactions
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hear a conversation with SLP Tovah Feehan, who specializes in pediatric feeding disorders, and the hosts of the Caffeinated Caregivers podcast. Throug...
Student Advocacy and A Win for People Who Stutter
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Conversations on Milestones and Speech-Language Delays
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 realiz...
Stuttering and Stigma with SLP Derek Daniels
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
SLP Derek Daniels says stigmatizing actions, like imitating stuttering, can lead people who stutter to remove themselves from opportunities and create...
Regional Factors Influencing Home Health Care
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hear stories from home health SLPs working in three different regions across the country. As more patients choose to receive care at home, SLPs workin...
A Personal and Professional Look at Multilingualism and CSD
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this panel discussion, guests address how SLPs can empower themselves to effectively provide their services cross-linguistically. The guests share ...
Isolation, Frustration, and What Follows a Brain Injury
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
SLP Jerry Hoepner discusses the ways SLPs can help patients address barriers to care and connection following a traumatic brain injury.A professor a...
The Role of Two SLPs Following a Unique Face-Transplant Surgery
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
SLPs Meg Lico and Kaitlin Hanley from NYU Langone Health share their story of working with Aaron James, the recipient of what’s being billed as the ...
A Big-Picture Look at Hearing Loss in the U.S.
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’re delving into new research addressing the where and the who of hearing loss in the U.S.Principal investigator David Rein, of NORC at the Univ...
What Tinnitus and mTBI Can Mean for Patients
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An audiologist and SLP discuss working together to assist patients with mild TBI and tinnitus.At the center of their collaboration is addressing the c...
Bonus: More Communication Strategies to Improve Health Care Access
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this second part of our conversation with SLP and health services researcher Jen Oshita, she expands on strategies people with communication disabi...
How SLPs Can Use Communication Strategies to Improve Health Care Access
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
SLP and health services researcher Jen Oshita provides strategies SLPs can share with people with communication disabilities to facilitate effective c...
Author John Hendrickson on Stuttering, Disclosure, and 'Life on Delay'
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Hendrickson is a writer and senior editor at The Atlantic where, four years ago, he began to write about stuttering, penning an article about now...
Looking Ahead to 2024; Reflecting on 2023
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
ASHA Voices is ringing in the new year with a preview of 2024 and some highlights from 2023.
What Role Can Supervisors Play in Addressing Microaggressions?
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You may have seen our first guests present on cultural awareness, bias, and microaggressions in the supervisory relationship at the 2023 ASHA Conventi...
Access, Advocacy, and Community in Public Health Audiology
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Audiologist and public health researcher Lauren Dillard takes us on a journey through the ASHA Voices archive to highlight the many places audiology a...
Stories from a Career Addressing Clinical Mysteries
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
SLP Joe Duffy, who has spent decades with the Mayo Clinic treating motor speech disorders, shares some of the stories that stick with him—from surpr...
Avoiding Confusion in Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If clinicians and families aren’t speaking the same language when treating pediatric swallowing disorders, things can get confusing — and dangerou...
Advocacy Progress for Developmental Language Disorder
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What some SLPs have considered a “hidden disorder” is receiving attention. Earlier this year, the Department of Education clarified that Developme...
Examining the First Year of Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What have we learned from the first year of OTC hearing aids’ availability?A panel of audiologists with distinct perspectives on the devices—infor...
Swallowing Disorders and Artificial Intelligence
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we look at what artificial intelligence (AI) might mean for people with swallowing disorders, as part of our continuing series of con...
What AI May Have in Store for Hearing Care
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From hearing aids to cochlear implants, from tinnitus to speech-in-noise, AI is everywhere. On this episode, professor Fan-Gang Zeng (UC Irvine) discu...
How AI Can Aid Care Coordination for Patients Experiencing Dizziness
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From the moment a patient approaches their primary care provider about balance problems, the road to recovery can be long and expensive. But audiologi...
Author Christopher Anderson Reflects on 'Every Waking Moment,' His Stuttering Journey
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In his book “Every Waking Moment,” author Christopher Anderson shares in unflinching detail the pain he experienced related to stuttering—both a...
Author Vince Vawter on His Novel 'Paperboy,' and the Lived Experience of Stuttering
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ten years after “Paperboy,” the story of a boy who stutters, resonated with audiences and won the Newbery Medal, its author Vince Vawter joins the...
The Non-Compete Agreement Faces An Uncertain Future
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You may have seen a sometimes contentious element of contracts--the non-compete agreement--in the news lately. Earlier this year, the Federal Trade Co...
How Do We Ensure Culturally Responsive Practice When Working With People Who Stutter?
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
SLP Kia Noelle Johnson speaks about cultural responsiveness in work with people who stutter and the role of culture in the presentation, assessment, a...
Driving Hearing Care Access With Mobile Audiology
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet two audiologists who use their clinics on wheels to reach people who have unaddressed hearing loss. From designing their space to finding their ...
Benefits of Conversation in the Lives of People with Aphasia
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Guests explore the ways in which conversation can play a role in fighting social isolation for people with aphasia, as well as provide an important wa...
What Public Health Says About the Future of CSD
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The University of Memphis’ Sarah Warren says studying public health allowed her to reimagine her career as an audiologist and connect her work to la...
What Message Banking Offers People with ALS
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
SLP Emily Kornman discusses her work as a part of Team Gleason, a nonprofit supporting people with ALS. When ALS erodes someone’s ability to speak, ...
Stuttering Intervention Without A Focus on Fluency
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do society’s expectations of people who stutter affect those speakers’ experiences? As a person who stutters and as an SLP specializing in st...
What Keeps People with Disabilities from Receiving Needed Care
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
People with disabilities affecting speech, language, and voice are at higher risk for avoidable health care errors and negative health care outcomes...
An Audiologist in Trinidad and Tobago Shares Her Story
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Amanda Piper is one of just a few audiologists in her home country of Trinidad and Tobago. Inspired by a personal connection, Piper traveled to the U....
When Brain Injuries Lead Patients to the Audiologist
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can a blow to the head result in difficulties with hearing and listening?Audiologist Gail Whitelaw discusses what clinicians may want to consider ...
Meeting the Complex Challenges of Distinguishing and Treating Apraxia of Speech
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
SLP Edythe "Edy" Strand joins the podcast for a conversation on apraxia of speech--the focus of her decades-long career. When it comes to differential...
Addressing Audibility and Accessibility in the Classroom and Clinic
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With the arrival of a new student who uses hearing aids and American Sign Language, two University of Memphis audiologists began looking into hearing ...
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Audiologists Share Insights
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our guests share their personal experiences and address subjects such as accessibility in education, audism, and the strengths that deaf and hard of h...
Avoiding Confusion in Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If clinicians and families aren’t speaking the same language when treating pediatric swallowing disorders, things can get confusing — and dangerou...
Where Patients with Tinnitus Are Going for Relief in 2023
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In recognition of Tinnitus Awareness Week, audiologist and tinnitus expert Tricia Scaglione discusses the latest tinnitus research, the potential role...
SLPs Tell Their Mentorship Stories
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
These conversation were originally published in August 2022.First, hear from two SLPs in Chicago. This mentor-mentee duo shares lessons and stories fr...
Why Some Autistic People Choose AAC and Oral Speech
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many people turn to augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) when they lose—or never have—their voice or ability to speak. But today’s...
Highlights From a Memorable 2022
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re kicking off 2023 with a replay of some of the podcast’s most memorable moments from the past year. We’ll start with two SLPs who address h...
CSD Professionals on the Mutual Enrichment of International Exchange
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hear two conversations about working and studying outside the United States in communication sciences and disorders.Audiologist/SLP Mershen Pillay f...
The Mysteries of Long COVID
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Researchers are still learning about the effects and path to recovery for those with “long COVID”—a lingering, often-grueling condition followin...
With the Arrival of OTCs, Pharmacists Could Be Key Allies for Audiologists
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This conversation was originally published in April 2022.From University of Pittsburgh, audiologist Elaine Mormer and pharmacist Lucas Berenbrok say ...
At the Intersection of OTC Hearing Aids and Mobile Audiology
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids are now available for purchase without a prescription, but the implications of this change for audiologists an...
Driving Hearing Care Access With Mobile Audiology
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Meet two audiologists who use their clinics on wheels to reach people who have unaddressed hearing loss. From designing their space to finding their ...
What Keeps People with Disabilities from Receiving Needed Care
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
People with disabilities affecting speech, language, and voice are at higher risk for avoidable health care errors and negative health care outcomes...
The Effects of Linguistic Profiling
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all speak in different dialects. Today’s guest, John Baugh, provides history and context for those differences in the way we speak in the U.S....
What Message Banking Offers People with ALS
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
SLP Emily Kornman discusses her work as a part of Team Gleason, a nonprofit supporting people with ALS. When ALS erodes someone’s ability to speak, ...
The Community Link to Hearing Care Access
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Audiologist Laura Coco and otologist Carrie Nieman join the podcast to preview their talks at the Research Symposium on Hearing, part of the 2022 ASHA...
Three SLPs Step Off the Beaten Career Path into New Ventures
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve ever looked at someone else and thought, “How do I get that job?”—this episode is for you. ASHA Voices is bringing you three SLPs...
When Brain Injuries Lead Patients to the Audiologist
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How can a blow to the head result in difficulties with hearing and listening?Audiologist Gail Whitelaw discusses what clinicians may want to consider ...
SLPs Tell Their Mentorship Stories
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
First, hear from two SLPs in Chicago. This mentor-mentee duo shares lessons and stories from the more than 35 years they’ve known each other.In the ...
An Audiologist in Trinidad and Tobago Shares Her Story
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Amanda Piper is one of just a few audiologists in her home country of Trinidad and Tobago. Inspired by a personal connection, Piper traveled to the U....
Stuttering Intervention Without A Focus on Fluency
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do society’s expectations of people who stutter affect those speakers’ experiences? As a person who stutters and as an SLP specializing in st...