This is episode 36 of the Swallier Pride Podcast and on today's episode we have Matt Ward.

He is, we call him a repeat offender.

He actually was on episode five with us.

We talked about the Yale Swallow Protocol

and how to make your clinical swallow exams a little more reliable. And we

also talked about the Magi Lee Huckee paper of Rethinking Rehab.

So go back and check out episode 5 if you want to hear more of Matt.

But Matt is, he currently does mobile fees for essay swallowing services in Nashville, Tennessee, and he also works PRN at a hospital where he does

MBS. So very instrumental heavy, our friend Mattis. So this episode actually was supposed to be all of our report writing and after when I

went back and listened to the entire episode we really didn't get into report writing until the very end of it.

So I actually I'm going to split this interview into three parts because

Matt just did an excellent job of presenting the research of really what you should know as far as anatomy,

physiology, neurology, a lot of the basic core contents that you should know about before you even start doing

instrumentals. So I think this is going to be a great episode. I get a lot of

emails all the time for people saying, you know, they're even grad students, like

I want to jump in and do instrumentals right away

and there's just so much foundational knowledge that people need to have before they do

them even SLPs that have been doing them for 20 years I think there's a lot we've been missing out on.

So like I said, I broke this episode up into three parts, so you'll be hearing three parts of this and as always

Matt put together super thorough notes.

It was actually a PowerPoint presentation

that we broke down into notes.

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