385 – Navigating the Complexities of Speech Disorders After Stroke: A Deep Dive into Current Research and Practices

Swallow Your Pride Podcast

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

Education, Health & Fitness, Business, Careers, Medicine

4.8 • 899 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of "Swallow Your Pride," host Theresa Richard brings together a panel of NIH-funded researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to unpack the complexity of diagnosing and treating motor speech disorders after left-hemisphere stroke. Theresa Richard guides a conversation that demystifies the overlap between apraxia of speech, dysarthria, and aphasia, highlights the challenges clinicians face in acute and subacute care, and introduces innovative assessment tools designed to bring more objectivity and clarity to real-world practice. The team shares emerging findings, practical insights for SLPs across the continuum of care, and a look at how new perceptual and acoustic measures may shape the future of stroke-related speech assessment.

Links mentioned in the show:

UNC Center for Aphasia and Related Disorder's Lab website (includes information on our research and helpful therapy resources regarding aphasia, communication partner training, and aphasia-friendly print materials): https://www.med.unc.edu/healthsciences/sphs/card/
Tools Available for Speech Therapists for Assessment...
Word Information Measure and Moving Average Type Token Ratio (Shiny App): https://unccard.shinyapps.io/WIM_MATTR/
Word Complexity Measure (Shiny App): https://unccard.shinyapps.io/shiny-woRdcomplex-2/
Word Complexity Measure Ratio (Shiny App): https://unccard.shinyapps.io/shiny-wcmRatio/

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0:00.0	Hello, my friends. I want to personally invite you to something really special we've got coming up.
0:05.8	You've all been asking for the MetisLP Summit to come back and we heard you loud and clear,
0:11.2	but instead of the same old format, we've created something bigger and better, the MetyslP
0:16.5	Collective Learning Lab. This is a free two-day virtual event on December 6th and 7th,
0:22.8	featuring 10 expert speakers, all practicing clinicians who will actually demonstrate the latest
0:28.2	tools and technologies in medical speech pathology. We're talking respiratory muscle strength
0:32.8	training, SMG biofeedback, lingual strengthening devices, virtual rehab technology, and so much more.
0:39.6	And then on day two, we'll tackle something even better. We'll learn how to actually advocate
0:44.4	for and obtain these tools in your facility. So they'll discuss funding pathways, budget
0:49.6	strategies, and implementation blueprints. So it's the bridge between knowing what to do and actually making it
0:55.5	happen. Registration is completely free at metslpcollective.com forward slash learning lab,
1:01.4	or you can join the MetSLP Collective to get CEOs for attending. We will put that link in the show
1:07.0	notes, and I hope to see you there.
1:18.5	On this episode of the Swaliya Pride podcast, we have an awesome research team, which I am so,
1:19.9	so happy to have them on.
1:21.8	We have Connor Dautridge.
1:26.6	She's the one that wrote in to be on the podcast, and I had the fortunate opportunity to meet Connor at Asha and I really, really enjoyed
1:28.7	talking with her. She is a research SLP employed by Atrium Health in Charlotte, North Carolina,
1:34.4	partnering with the Card Lab at UNC Chapel Hill, working on the speech profiles and cure
1:39.4	responsiveness after left hemisphere stroke study. She holds a master's degree in speech pathology from
1:44.8	UNC at Chapel Hill. Her primary clinical and research interests are aphasia and apraxy
1:49.3	of speech. Previously, she worked at inpatient rehab at Novant Health, New Hanover Regional
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