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This week the crew continue to make their way towards the end of the school year. Matt was nominated as chosen as an OSLHA Fellow. Michael continues to fine tune his research. Michelle tracks down her licensure. Are you part of the small percentage that has gotten a loan forgiven? ASHA has started to help SLPs get loan forgiveness. Fleetwood Mac Guitarist went in for emergency heart surgery and came out with vocal cord damage. How common is this? A Chicago man with autism was almost arrested...

Episode 64 for Speech Science. Michael continues to work with his private practice, Michelle works on her Kentucky licensure, and Matt plays catch up from 3 calamity days in a row! Microsoft’s big game commercial showed off their brand new controller for disabled gamers. Are we collecting data wrong? When do we have time to teach a topic? Parent buy in shows greater growth in late talking toddlers! We are all, probably, teaching reading comprehension wrong.

Episode 63 finds Matt, Michelle, and Michael braving the Polar Vortex for therapy. How do you address bullying with students with Autism? What if the student is bullying? Where does teasing end and bullying begin? The link between depression and stroke are higher in female patients than male. How do you address the mental side of rehab? SLPs and teachers were on strike last week. Is it time for SLPs to have a national union? Sentence diagramming was a major part of education for years. Now...

Matt, Michelle, and Michael bring in episode 62 with a look back on the week as Matt looks at 30+ ETRs, Michael continues his research, and Michelle works on the new state licensure. The top 10 threats to healthcare this year includes Anti-Vaxers. What impact will this have on therapy? At the age of 22 students can no longer enroll in school and must seek outside therapy. What happens if their caregivers pass, where do they live? It is super tough being a parent. Sometimes its nice to just...

On this week’s episode, the crew dig themselves out of the massive snow storm that swept through the Midwest. Michael discusses his research project on Executive Functioning and Resiliency. Michelle and baby Speech Science work on completing her new licensure in Kentucky after moving across the country. Matt has learned the power of Pokémon. On the show, Matt, Michael, and Michelle discuss the challenges of high functioning Autism. Also, O’Hare Airport has made a fully functional bathroom...

Episode 60: The Bachelor, Art and Autism, Emily Blunt Stuttering, and Failing State Special Education Matt, Michael, and Michelle return in for the new year. Have you heard about Cassie the SLP on the Bachelor? Which of the 3 would make the best reality tv show contestant. On this week’s episode, the crew discusses Emily Blunt and her history of stuttering, art and autism, and a failure in special education. They also feature a story about an Eagle Scout helping adults with down syndrome...

Mai Ling Chan, Chris Bugaj, Rachel Madel, and Matt Hott sat down for a behind the scenes podcast round table. They talk how to build a show and the balance it takes to put a show on air. It’s a Christmas Celebration.

Episode 58: Multi-State Licensure, Bilingual Brains, and Loyalty Pledges On this week’s episode, Matt recaps his review of the musical Rent, Michael’s executive functioning study continues, and Michelle registered her cat so they can live on base. The crew discuss the positives, and the negatives, of a multi-state licensure allowing SLPs to practice in multiple states. How does your brain react to being bi-lingual? Lastly, would you take a loyalty pledge to boycott another country? What...

Episode 57: AAC in the Schools, Transition Plans, and More On this week’s episode, Matt questions why SLPs in the schools do not request more AAC devices. Michelle and Michael discuss their history with working with families and their transition plans. How does body language affect patients with dementia. Discussion about how does deep brain stimulation helps the brain.

Episode 56: The One with all the Hosts Michael, Matt, and Michelle are back in the hosts chairs. On this week’s episode the crew discuss the impact of video games and screen time on the brain, how are we killing communication, the Salvation Army, and Apraxia.

Welcome to episode 55 the ASHA Episode. Rachel Madel of Talking with Tech and Mai Ling Chan of Xceptional Leaders Podcast had the opportunity to interview and talk to over 60 people at ASHA. On this week’s episode Rachel and Matt talk about ASHA, Carol Flemming the ASHA Dorothy Dryer Award Winner, and Tracy Sippl the first Xceptional Leader who created a course and now has 3 up there took time from their ASHA Convention to talk to the show.

Welcome to episode 54 and a Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. We are all still recovering so we thought we would dust off one of our favorite interviews. Ivan Campos had the chance to sit down with Mary Casper - ASHA 2017 Convention Co-Chair for Speech-Language Pathology and Anita Vereb, Convention Co-Chair for Audiology. What does it take to be a Co-Chair? How long will you plan for a convention? Ivan’s got all of the answers.

Episode 53, its ASHA week. Mai Ling Chan (Podcaster, SLP, XceptionalED Co-Founder) joined Matt and Michelle for the week of ASHA. The crew discuss their ASHA plans and all of the trials and tribulations of making it to Boston this week. Also, if you are ASHA head to booth 331 and check in with Mai Ling. You may end up on air. If you cant make it to ASHA go to xceptionaled.com/asha18 and get a digital goody bag. This week the crew also discuss how students that are seen in speech and language...

Episode 52, the one before ASHA. Michael, Michelle, and Matt come together to discuss the growing need for collaboration in the field and in the schools. What does special education look like when administration and staff are on the same page? Where does the line between rehab therapy and technology begins and ends? Can a robot help in rehab? How is stuttering affected by anxiety?

Episode 51, the episode of birthdays. Matt had a birthday party for a two year and things were going great till the balloons popped. Michelle didn’t have any popped balloons on her birthday this week and Michael was upset over his Giants losing. On this week, the crew look at the communication intent of children in the NICU and how to help families feed their newborns. Everything is bigger in Texas, including Special Education violations. Also, how do we train families to understand what...

Episode 50, the pod-life crisis episode is here. On Episode 50, Dr. Kyle Karches sat down with Matt to discuss the future of AI and medicine. The group discusses cognitive impact of mundane tasks and the impact of CBD and speech and language delays. Also, what factor does funding have on education? Lastly, should we be doing a better job to ensure patients are only receiving therapy that can help them?

Episode 49: Verbalizing from a Tongue Tie Clip, Fortnight, and IEPs Matt, Michael, and Michelle discuss the implications therapists have on IEPs. Michael, the resident expert on executive functioning, breaks down how the brain is affected by video games and Netflix. Can clipping a tongue tie make a student verbal?

Episode 48: RPM, Dementia, Apple Watches, and Clinicians Michael, Michelle, and Matt are back. A controversial article in the Walt Street Journal about RPM and our responses on this week’s episode.

After a week of technical difficulties, episode 47 is being uploaded.

Episode 45: Lebron James’ Promise, ADHD and Video Games, Social Time and Dementia, Swimming SLPs, and Recess and Language We have a new Email! Speechscience2018@gmail.com New Episode: Straw debate, week 2! Matt still fights about the straw ban, Michele has officially finished her move across the country, and Michael educates on the link between Executive Functioning and ADHD. The crew debates about video game addiction and the link with ADHD. Matt struggles with allowing his son to play...