272 – Swallow Instrumentals Through a Critical Thinking Prism: Part 2 – Gavin Levy, MA, CCC-SLP

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Theresa Richard, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S

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🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Gavin Levy is back with part 2 of Swallow Instrumentals Through a Critical Thinking Prism!

As a med SLP, you've likely received an instrumental report or two in your career. But what do you do when it leaves you with more questions than answers? My guest this week is asking me the tough questions on behalf of SNF (and every other setting that receives these reports) SLPs everywhere!

After meeting at ASHA, Gavin brought up the idea of this conversation but was anticipating being a listener, not the interviewer. Once you listen, you'll agree that he was the best SLP for the job. Gavin asks some tough and stimulating questions that need to be asked of our field! He brings his passion, enthusiasm, genuine inquisitive nature, and desire to learn to this chat and leaves you rethinking the way certain parts of the SLP world work.

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In this episode, you'll hear about:
-Is the swallow instrumental the needle in the haystack?
-If timing is everything, when should you do a swallow study?
-Is objectivity actually subjective?
-To follow a protocol or not to follow a protocol?

Get the Show notes at: syppodcast.com/272

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0:00.0	On this episode of the Swallier Pride podcast, we have Gavin Levy. He's worked primarily in
0:08.9	skilled nursing settings and he is more and more passionate about what he does every day. He's still in the early stages of his SLP journey, but he's a strong sense of determination and believes many things are possible through hard work, continued growth of knowledge, and an inquisitive nature.
0:24.0	And I love this conversation with Gavin
0:26.0	and actually how it all came to be
0:28.2	was he just stopped me at the Asha Convention
0:31.2	and we got talking and he said, I would love if you could talk about this on the podcast. And we kept going back and forth a little bit and I said, well, but I love your ideas. I said, why don't you come on the podcast and talk about it? And he was like, just could not believe that
0:45.0	and he was shocked.
0:45.8	And I said, but no, that's what this podcast is all about.
0:48.3	Like I love having SLPs that are curious about other things
0:52.3	and want to hear other sides of stories.
0:54.3	And so this interview or this podcast episode actually turned into sort of a reverse interview
0:59.4	where he is sort of interviewing me. So Gavin is a skilled nursing facility SLP, which is what I was for many, many years. And he just talks about his trials and tribulations of getting instrumental is what the report tells him.
1:14.1	So it's an interesting conversation.
1:15.4	I loved every minute of it because of my experience working as a skilled nursing
1:19.4	SLP, but then also providing mobile fees to skilled nursing facilities.
1:24.0	And now I'm back working in acute care,
1:25.7	so I have that perspective of doing the modified
1:28.7	and sending the reports to skilled nursing facilities as well.
1:31.3	So it's definitely a full circle conversation and I hope you all learn a lot and we actually turn this into a three part series because there were so many so many great points and great topics that we wanted to cover and
1:45.9	Gavin and I discovered that we could just talk all day about this topic.
1:49.2	So I hope this is enlightening for you.
1:51.6	I hope you see other perspectives, other sides of the story of some frustrations in our field and maybe give some SLP colleagues some grace as to why some protocols are the way that they are.
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