Welcome to the Swallow Your Pride Podcast to the Speech Science Network.

I'm your host Teresa Richard. I'm a board certified specialist in

Swallowing and Swallowing disorders and I know firsthand how much confusing and conflicting information there is out there about how we assess and treat swallowing disorders.

This podcast is all about bringing everyone together, getting on the same page, being open to new ideas, and using evidence-based treatment

strategies for our patients with dysphagia.

So let's get into it. Hello, oh my god, I'm so excited to finally get this podcast going. I've been talking

about doing this for so many months now. You know, technology is totally wonderful

when it works when it wants to,

but I'm so grateful to the guys over at speech science,

speech science. Org, they have an awesome podcast there

and I just happened to send them an email.

I was having technical issues and ended up,

they just decided to scoop me up under their network so yeah so welcome to

swallow your pride this is a podcast all about swallowing and swallowing disorders

and my name is Teresa Richard I'm a board certified specialist in swallowing and swallowing

disorders.

And I just wanted to give you a little background about me

and kind of where this whole idea,

where this whole podcast stemmed from.

So I think a lot of people get this preconceived notion

that I had this gravy train of grad school

medical speech pathology, and I had these top-notch medical

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