This is episode 145 of the Swallier Pride Podcast and we have two wonderful guests today.

Our first guest is Maurice Goodwin.

He is a speech language pathologist and singer, now living in Houston, Texas.

Professionally, he specializes in the evaluation and treatment

of the singing voice and voice disorders

at the Texas Voice Center.

Following his undergraduate studies and music performance

at Shenandoah University, he completed his graduate work in speech pathology at the University of Pittsburgh.

His background as a performer and speech pathologist led him to complete training and the treatment of singers, actors, teachers, and other occupational voice

users with voice problems. He is passionate about vocal health education and the intersections

of identity and voice. And Maurice is one of our incredible voice mentors in the med SLP collective and he just blows me away with his wisdom and knowledge.

And our other guest is Lauren Sharp Payne.

Lauren is an Asha certified Speech Language

Pathologist who currently resides in Hampton, Virginia. She received her

bachelor's degree in speech language pathology in 2014 and her master's degree in

speech language pathology in 2016 from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

She has experience working in Pediatric Private Practice, Outpatient Rehabilitation, and Inpatient Rehab.

Her interests include Disphasia Rehabilitation. outpatient rehabilitation and inpatient rehab.

Her interests include dysphagia,

ophasia, as well as the application of neuroplasticity principles

for remediation of various neurogenic speech, language,

and swallowing disorders.

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