398 – From Glasgow Coma Score of 2 to Certified Brain Injury Specialist: An SLPs Journey from Patient to Clinician
Swallow Your Pride Podcast
Theresa Richard, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
4.8 • 899 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of The Swallow Your Pride Podcast, I sit down with Laura Morgan was halfway through her clinical fellowship in speech-language pathology when a motor vehicle accident left her with a moderate-severe traumatic brain injury, a fractured jaw, and broken C1 and C2 vertebrae. She spent 72 days inpatient, had to retake the Praxis, redo her CF, and fight her way back into the field she'd just entered. Laura shares what she learned about brain injury rehabilitation from the patient's perspective: why your office decorations matter more than you think, how cognitive progress and grief can show up at the same time, what errorless learning looks like in everyday life, and why recognizing a patient's lost coping mechanisms should come before any clinical label. Laura now works at Metro Therapy Center in Gaithersburg, MD and has given over 50 multimedia presentations on her experience as both a provider and a recipient of speech pathology services.
Learn more at www.soundmindinsights.com and follow her on Instagram @slp_tbi and @soundmindinsights.
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| 0:00.0 | On this episode of the Swalier Pride podcast, we have Laura Morgan. In 2012, after Laura earned her |
| 0:08.2 | master's degree in speech language pathology, she started her clinical fellowship in Frederick |
| 0:12.4 | Maryland. Halfway through the fellowship, Laura was a buckled passenger in a serious motor |
| 0:17.5 | vehicle accident. She sustained a moderate to severe brain injury in the accident, but as a result of the long |
| 0:24.0 | rehab process gained a unique perspective on brain injury for the field of speech pathology. |
| 0:29.7 | Laura has shared her clinical reflections from being both a provider and a recipient of this |
| 0:34.7 | discipline in articles and over 50 multimedia presentations, which can be |
| 0:39.5 | explored on her website at www.soundmindinsights.com. She loves working with individuals and also |
| 0:46.9 | leading groups as a paid employee at Metrotherapy Center, desiring to inspire and assist others |
| 0:52.5 | in discovering hope after brain injury. |
| 0:55.1 | Hope you all just love this episode. |
| 0:56.6 | I just love talking with Laura. |
| 0:58.1 | She's been a long-term collective member, |
| 1:00.9 | and we always really enjoy her contributions and her insight. |
| 1:03.6 | So I hope you host, Teresa Richard. I'm a board certified specialist in swallowing and swallowing disorders, a mobile fees business owner and founder of the MetSLP Collective. |
| 1:28.4 | This podcast is all about delivering the latest evidence-based practice to medical |
| 1:32.0 | SLPs everywhere. |
| 1:33.6 | Whether you're a new clinician seeking tangible tools for treatment or a seasoned vet |
| 1:37.6 | stuck in a rut, my goal is to help ditch the old school ways of the past that no longer |
| 1:42.1 | serve you or your patients, re-invigorate |
| 1:44.5 | your passion for our field to broaden your knowledge about our scope of practice and to inspire |
| 1:48.9 | you to practice at the top of your license. So if you're listening, I encourage you to swallow |
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