What The Fricative
What the Fricative is a podcast for speech-language pathologists by speech-language pathologists. We chat about grad school survival, daily struggles and successes of an SLP and stories from all of you! You'll be sure to laugh, learn, and maybe even cry... but that's okay. We're here to support each other through it all!
Episodes
17 episodes
The Journey to and through Grad School with Cerebral Palsy with Angie Evenich
Angela Evenich (she/her) is a self-proclaimed disability activist and disabled graduate student studying Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences at San Francisco State University (Graduated May 2023 | Class of 2023). Her passion for empowering ot...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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45:45
SLP Continuing Education, Grad School Learning Gaps and More with Kate Grandbois
Kate has been an SLP since 2007 and a BCBA since 2014. She has experience working in private practice, outpatient clinics, outpatient hospital settings, and consulting to private schools and legal teams. She specializes in augmentative alternat...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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44:37
Becoming the First Black Male SLP to Graduate from Kent State University + The Challenges that Came With It
Mr. Lorenz Clark is the first African American male to graduate from his Master’s Program at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. Lorenz was told that “Blacks had no home there” but clearly he proved them wrong! He moved from Fayetteville, Nort...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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48:00
The Journey Through Grad School As a New Mom + A Cross-Country Move with Natalie Iverson
Natalie is a pediatric CF-SLP based out of Northern Utah. She grew up in central California and did her undergraduate studies at Utah State University in Communication Sciences and Disorders. She then moved to central New York to complete her g...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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32:11
The Journey to Creating Multiple Side Buisinesses + Tie-Mates with Dominique Jones
I have been a pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist for 11 years. I am excited to be launching a new product that was developed because of my son’s interest to learn how to tie his shoes at 4 years old. Thinking like an SLP helped us learn this...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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51:39
SLP Grad School Survival Tips from a Grad Chairperson with Carly Jo Hosbach-Cannon, PhD, CCC-SLP
Dr. Hosbach-Cannon joined the Ithaca College faculty in Fall 2016 and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. She earned her Ph.D. from Syracuse University under the guidance of Dr. Soren Lowell, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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The Journey to CCC-SLP Through a 5 Year Program with Justina Ghali
My name is Justina Ghali and I’m from Dallas, Texas! I just graduated from The University of Texas at Dallas with a M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology. During graduate school, I focused my clinical and research studies on diagnosing and treating...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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36:33
Personal and Professional Experiences with Aphasia with Sami Wong
Sami Wong, MS, CF-SLP, MBA is a speech-language pathologist and aphasia advocate currently completing her clinical fellowship in an adult-focused, post-acute setting in the Pacific Northwest. speechpluslanguage.cominstagram.com...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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41:19
The Journey to Starting a Private Practice with Lauren DeVoe
I completed my undergrad at New Mexico State University on a full-ride scholarship to ride for their Equestrian Team. I then went to graduate school at UW-Whitewater, where I had clinical rotations in schools, acute care, birth-three, pediatric...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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40:22
Journey to Becoming an Audiologist with Dr. Michelle Hu from Mama Hu Hears
Michelle Hu has been a pediatric audiologist for over 12 years working specifically with the diagnosis, hearing amplification, cochlear implant evaluation, programming and aural rehabilitation. Something unique about her is that she grew up har...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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35:57
The Journey to Starting a Private Practice after having a pandemic baby with ToniAnn Loftus
ToniAnn Gambella Loftus, MS. CCC-SLP/TSSLD has been working with kids with special needs in some capacity using a variety of interventions and methodologies since 2006.. She received her master’s degree in Speech Language Pathology from Seton H...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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Journey to SLPA After Being a Sole Survivor of a Car Crash with Emi Arai-Saito
Emi is an SLPA who loves helping the special needs population. When she was younger, Emi faced some incredibly difficult challenges. She was involved in a horrific car crash that left her as the sole survivor. In the aftermath, Emi had to learn...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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The Journey to Becoming a New Mom In Grad School with Maisie Gordon
Maisie takes us on her journey to becoming a new mom in grad school
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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The Importance of Mental Health in Graduate School with Meghan Flynn
Meghan Flynn is a Speech-Language Pathologist who recently graduated from St. Ambrose University with her Master’s in Speech-Language Pathology. She is currently completing her clinical fellowship in home health in Chicago, IL.Instagram...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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Journey from SLPA to SLP + The Craziest Praxis Story
Elena from ms.bslp on Instagram! She is a CF-SLP in an elementary school in Massachusetts! Elena worked as an SLPA for a year in the same elementary school that she works in now before going to grad school for Speech-Language Pathology. She has...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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Journey to Private Practice and Beyond with Kimberly Martin Erskine
Kim is an idea person. She is a practicing SLP and began her career working for private practices that she didn't quite believe in. She felt she could do it better, took business classes at night, and opened her first business- a pr...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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SLP Graduate Student Living with Aphasia Post Stroke with Katherine Wolf
Katherine is a wife to Steven and a mom to Everett (almost 4) and Rebekah (2). She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she is a second-year graduate SLP student at Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions. She is a stroke survivor and s...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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