This is episode 157 of the Swallier Pride Podcast and today's guest is Dr Michael Grower.

He is an emeritus professor of the Department of Communicative

disorders at the University of Redlands in Redlands, California.

Dr. Grower has spent most of his career working as a medical speech

pathologist in acute and long-term care settings.

The majority of his hospital work was done for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Seattle, Tacoma, New York, and Tampa.

He is best known for his pioneering work with patients who have swallowing disorders.

The majority of his work is summarized in three textbooks,

Dysphasia, diagnosis, and management, three editions,

Introduction to Adult Swallowing Disorders,

and Clinical Management of Dysphasia in Adults and Children's Second Edition.

Dr. Grower is an Asha fellow and honors recipient as well as a past

founding associate editor for the journal Dysphasia.

He is an honorary member of the Japanese Society of Disphasia Rehabilitation.

And I am so grateful to have Dr. Gower on this episode.

We are celebrating 2 million downloads of the Swallier Pride Podcast. I am so grateful to everyone who has

joined in on this endeavor. I'm grateful to all of the speakers that we've had and

all of you that tune in every week so thank you so much

so this is an excellent episode for us to have Dr. Grower because he's going to really

just talk about where we've been as a profession, where we're going, you know he's

he's been around this field for quite some time so really

excited for you guys to hear this conversation. I also wanted to mention that Dr. Grower has several

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