This is episode of 39 of the Swallier Pride Podcast and today's guest is Taylor Evans.

Taylor is a speech language pathologist in Georgia with a master's degree from the University of Georgia.

He's been practicing for three years

in medically based settings including skilled nursing, geriatric acute care, ICU, inpatient

psych ward, outpatient, and currently works in inpatient rehab. His special interests include disfated patient assessments and multilingual patient populations.

Taylor is currently pursuing his board certification in swallowing and he is a classically

trained linguist from the University of Georgia with previous work experience as a foreign

language interpreter for a third-party contract companies for the military.

Yeah, Taylor's a pretty cool kid, but I think you guys are really going to like this episode.

I hope that it's taken with the intention that it was intended to.

Did that sound right? Anyways.

Basically, today we're going to talk about how to kind of bridge the gap between these

intergenerational kind of discrepancies you know we've got the clinicians that

very rarely barely, barely had, I'm like having some total word finding issues tonight, but you know, we have these clinicians that had minimal to notice Asia education that are just solely relying on their years of experience.

And yet we do have these new clinicians that are coming out of these excellent medical-based

medical speech pathology master's degree programs and, you know, how can we learn from each other? How can we help to bridge this gap? And you've got experience, I've got a little more textbook knowledge. You know, let's get together and talk about this.

So that's what today's episode is with Taylor.

We kind of talk about some topics that are newer in dysphagia that some people, some

older, you know, more experienced clinicians never really thought of before.

So we're going to talk about those topics and also, yes, some cheese to go with your wine,

so we won't just vent the whole episode.

We talk about what we can do to actually,

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