Welcome to the Swalio Pride podcast. I'm your host, Teresa Richard. I'm a board certified specialist in swallowing and swallowing disorders and founder of the MetaSLP Collective and MetaSLP Education.

This podcast is dedicated to delivering the latest evidence-based practice to medical

SLPs everywhere, while also recognizing that medical SLPs everywhere are doing the best with what they've got.

Whether you are a new clinician seeking tangible tools for therapy or a seasoned vet stuck in a rut, my goal is simple

to help you advance your practice without feeling overwhelmed or underappreciated. This means that together

we'll build confidence, broaden your knowledge, and reignite your passion for our fields.

So if you're listening, I encourage you to swallow your pride and be open to new ideas because at the end of the day,

you and your patients deserve that kind of support. Just a quick disclaimer that all statements

and opinions expressed in this episode do not reflect on the organizations associated with the

speakers and are their own opinions solely. With that, let's dive in. On this episode of the Swalier Pride podcast, we have Alexandra Arvison.

She received her undergraduate degree from Purdue University and her master's degree from

the University of Tennessee.

She's been in clinical practice for 12 years where she has worked in a variety of settings

and mostly with the adult population.

For the last seven years, Alexandra has worked in an outpatient

neurorehab clinic in the metro Atlanta area and considers this her favorite setting thus far.

Hello, Alexandra. Welcome to the show. Hi, thank you for having me. Yeah, thank you so much for

joining me. Share with the people a little bit more about yourself. Yeah, so like you just said, I work at outpatient

nerve rehab. I actually work on a team that's an interdisciplinary team. So we have a PT and OT, a neuropsych case

manager and then a physical medicine rehab doctor. So it's a goal is like community reentry. So we're trying to

return our patients, mostly stroke and brain injury patients to somehow into the community.

So it's been an amazing setting. Awesome. I love that. I am. This conversation is very timely because I'm just dealing with

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