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1032. First, we explore why children pick up languages faster than adults. You'll learn about the critical period when young brains are best at learning, why kids often learn two languages at once, and what makes it harder for adults. Then, we tackle the grammar rules for using singular and plural verbs with band names and team names, comparing American and British usage.The "language learning" segment is by Syelle Graves, who has a PhD in linguistics and is the assistant director of ILETC (the Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context) at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research was recently published in the Journal of Pragmatics and American Speech. You can find her at www.syellegraves.com.

Are you thinking about specializing in your private practice? You'll love this episode of Private Practice Success Stories. I sat down with Farwa Husain who is a speech-language pathologist with a neurodiversity affirming private practice in New Jersey. She decided to start her private practice after feeling burnt out and wanting to have a deeper impact on the children she was working with. In this episode, she talks about specializing in Gestalt Language Processing and the importance of neurodiversity-affirming care. Farwa discusses how specializing has allowed her to have more control over her caseload and avoid burnout. She also talks about how she grew her practice by providing in-services and education for families and the community and how she is now selling physical products.Farwa Husain is an experienced bilingual speech-language pathologist and private practice owner of One-on-One Speech Therapy located in Raritan, NJ. She obtained her Master of Science degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Teachers College, Columbia University. Farwa presented at the 2022 American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA) National Convention on ”Using Natural Language Acquisition to Support Autistic and Neurotypical Gestalt Language Development .“ She was awarded the 2021 and 2022 Award for Continuing Education (ACE) from ASHA.Farwa is currently serving as President of Morris County Speech and Hearing Association. Farwa takes a holistic, sensory-driven, play-based approach to support children's language development and goals. In Today's Episode, We Discuss:How starting your private practice can be the key to overcoming burnout and reigniting your passionFarwa's proven tips to successfully attract clients - even if you're just starting outThe simple mindset shift that can propel you to success in your practiceThe secret to differentiating your private practice from all the others and attracting your ideal clientsLittle-known ways you can incorporate additional streams of income into your private practice for increased financial stabilityThe power of connecting with other SLPs and how Farwa does it to grow her professional circleThe simple way to exponentially grow your impact and make a lasting difference in your communityI love how Farwa started her own practice so she could operate within her zone of genius, Gestalt Language Therapy. She is a perfect example of someone who is growing their practice through multiple income streams and tailoring their offerings to their interests and skills. If you would like to know more about our Programs and how we help support SLPs and OTs who want our help to start and grow their practices, please visit www.IndependentClinician.com/resources.Whether you want to start a private practice or grow your existing private practice, I can help you get the freedom, flexibility, fulfillment, and financial abundance that you deserve. Visit my website www.independentclinician.com to learn more.Resources Mentioned: Visit Farwa's website: https://www.oneononespeechtherapy.com/Follow Farwa on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/one.on.one.speechtherapyWhere We Can Connect: Follow the Podcast:

In this episode, hosts Mary Brezik and Kim Dillon discuss all things AAC, podcasting (The Speechie Side Up Podcast), presenting and more with guest Venita Litvack, a speech therapist and entrepreneur. Venita details her progression in specializing in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and her eventual roles including an AAC consultant (where she helped numerous SLPs get insurance approvals for devices) and an assistive technology specialist. She shares her experiences in private practice, exploring various areas of speech therapy before returning to her passion for AAC.  Venita also discussed co-authoring a book focused on social stories and the acceptance of differences in children, her deep engagement with podcasting which she finds fulfilling in providing value through courses, trainings, and events for SLPs, and the significant role a business coach has played in her professional life.Venita highlights her journey in starting Tassel and the lengthy process to become a CEU provider for the American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA), and emphasizing the necessity of perseverance in podcasting to eventually profit from it. Venita's development of interviewing skills and her strategic approach to increasing diversity on her podcast by opening guest submissions reflect her commitment to representing diverse client populations. She also discusses the growth of a podcast network, her thoughts on improving podcast organization, and the vital importance of creating efficient systems and processes. Venita reflects on the challenges she faced when starting as an entrepreneur, the distinctions between service-based and product-based businesses, and her reliance on essential subscriptions like Asana, Zapier, and Calendly. Venita has really taken her experience in the world of speech pathology and crafted a unique and ideal work life that is perfect for her season in life.  She demonstrates the ability to change the dynamic of work as these life seasons and interests change, something that the field of speech pathology is well known for.  Kim and Mary learned so much in this interview with Venita and know listeners will walk away with both encouragement and knowledge.Check out Venita's website and her IG Account!The Speechie Side Up PodcastThe Speechie Side Up YouTube Channel Tassel Courses and Information Ohter subscriptions Venita loves:CalendlyAsanaZapierAlso, if you haven't done so already, follow our podcast! You will be the first to know when new episodes release. We would also love for you to leave a review and rate our show. The Speech Source appreciates your feedback and support! Follow here!Follow Kim and Mary on IG here! - https://www.instagram.com/thespeechsource/For more information on speech, language, feeding and play - visit The Speech Source Website - https://www.thespeechsource.com/

Biden slams Trump and his supporters in January 6th speech. Republicans threaten to shut down the government over the border. U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin hospitalized without the Biden administration finding out. Donald Trump responds to the left's Trump Derangement Syndrome. Andy Biggs and Juan Ciscomani join the show.

This week we're traveling back to 1890s New England with The Lighthouse! Join us as we try to figure out what the heck is going on in this movie, and along the way learn about seagull myths, how lighthouses work, New England dialects, Davy Jones, and more! Sources: "Seagulls," A Dictionary of English Folklore, Oxford Reference Dictionaries, available at https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100450456;jsessionid=0C830965CCC27A471D73ABD544FFA75D Fletcher S Bassett, Legends and Superstitions of the Sea and of Sailors in All Lands and in All Times (1885). Available on Google Books. Etymology Online, available at https://www.etymonline.com/word/Davy%20Jones https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Folk_lore_Record/zW0AAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=davy+jones+locker+folklore&pg=PA66&printsec=frontcover Thomas L. Cromwell, Jr., "Ye Olde Englysshe 'Ye'" American Speech 24:2 (1949) 115-19. https://www.jstor.org/stable/486618  Herman Melville, Moby Dick, https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2701/pg2701-images.html  Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lighthouse_(2019_film)  Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_lighthouse_2019  Vanity Fair, "Willem Dafoe Rewatches Spider-Man, The Lighthouse, Platoon & More | Vanity Fair" https://youtu.be/88MCNN0abIU?si=ZDLA7om0MmdMYjBy   GQ, "Robert Pattinson Breaks Down His Most Iconic Characters | GQ," https://youtu.be/pz52gPH3ou4?si=J3SfP1S8lpCrc_Ix  Eric Grundhauser, "When the Lights Go Out: 8 of the World's Loneliest Lighthouses," Atlas Obscure (25 August 2015). https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/when-the-lights-go-out-8-of-the-worlds-loneliest-lighthouses  Sean Kirst, "Dark Past Haunts Lighthouse Thursday, October 31, 1996," The Soul of Central New York: Syracuse Stories by Sean Kirst (Syracuse University Press, 1996). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1ht4w1r.33  Michael Brian Schiffer, "The Electric Lighthouse in the Nineteenth Century: Aid to Navigation and Political Technology," Technology and Culture 46:2 (2005): 275-305. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40060849  D. Alan Stevenson, "The Development of Lighthouses," Journal of the Royal Society of Arts 80: 4130 (1932): 224-42. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41358948  "Beacons of Safety," Scientific American (1926). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/24976807  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Sur_Lighthouse  https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/saint-john-n-b-home-to-foghorn-inventor-1.941959  "Yellow Gals (Doodle Let Me Go)" http://balladindex.org/Ballads/Hugi380.html  "Doodle Let Me Go (Yaller Girls)" https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/doodleletmego.html 

This week we're traveling back to 1950s Hollywood with Hail Caesar! Join us as we learn about the Writers Guild, stars going on arranged dates, the phrase "cut the mustard", how stars concealed unplanned pregnancies, and more! Sources: Jeffrey Schwartz, Tab Hunter Confidential. Allan Glaser Productions, 2015. Available on Amazon Prime. Benjamin McVay, "Movie Stars in the Studio System: Secrets and Rules," Cinema Scholars, available at https://cinemascholars.com/movie-stars-in-the-studio-system-secrets-and-rules/ Writers Guild of America West https://www.wga.org/the-guild/about-us/history and https://www.wga.org/the-guild/about-us/history/a-history-of-wga-contract-negotiations-and-gains  Hilary Swett, "The Screen Writers' Guild: An Early History of the Writers Guild of America," WG Foundation (2020). https://www.wgfoundation.org/screenwritersguild-history  Greg Myre, "How The CIA Found A Soviet Sub--Without the Soviets Knowing," All Things Considered (NPR, 18 September 2017). https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/09/18/549535352/how-the-cia-found-a-soviet-sub-without-the-soviets-knowing   Lila Thulin, "During the Cold War, the CIA Secretly Plucked a Soviet Submarine From the Ocean Floor Using a Giant Claw," Smithsonian Magazine (10 May 2019). https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/during-cold-war-ci-secretly-plucked-soviet-submarine-ocean-floor-using-giant-claw-180972154/  "Russian Foxtrot Class attack submarine B-39, has gone to pasture." https://sdmaritime.org/visit/the-ships/b-39-submarine/  Louise Pound, Kemp Malone, and Arthur Garfield Kennedy, "cut the mustard," American Speech, Vol. 2 (1927), 352.  Dialect Notes Vol. 3 (University of Michigan and American Dialect Society, 1905).  Anne Helen Petersen, "Clark Gable Accused of Raping Co-Star," Buzzfeed News, 2015. Available at https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/loretta-young Bill Desowitz, "Hail Caesar! How the Coen Brothers Made Their Hollywood Valentine," IndieWire, available at https://www.indiewire.com/awards/industry/hail-caesar-the-coen-brothers-hollywood-1201781360/ Wikipedia, available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail,_Caesar!

Dr. Chantelle Varnado, Executive Director of Launch, has been working with children with disabilities and their families for over twenty years. She earned her Bachelor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and Master of Communication Sciences and Disorders degrees from Southeastern Louisiana University. She worked as a Speech-Language Pathologist for 14 years in Livingston Parish Public Schools and at Children's Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University. In 2015, She earned her Doctorate of Philosophy in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Louisiana State University. She founded Launch, a non-profit organization that serves children with disabilities and their families, in June of 2015. She has served as adjunct faculty, guest lecturer, and clinical supervisor for local universities since the time. She is a member of American Speech, Language and Hearing Association, Livingston Parish Chamber of Commerce, and Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. She also works with Special Olympics Healthy Athletes, BREC's Inclusive Activities, Different Abilities, Incredible Kids of Denham Springs, STARS Soccer Club and numerous community organizations that promote extracurricular and inclusive activities for children with disabilities. Dr. Varnado lives in Denham Springs with her husband, Brad Varnado, of 21 years and two children Braden and Addison. To learn more about Launch, please visit www.launchpeds.com or Facebook @launchpeds. To learn more about BRAF, head over to braf.org.

When hosting episodes of Unstoppable Mindset there is nothing more that I like than to get to learn from experts about subjects I have not addressed much before. This episode is one such endeavor and I bet most of you will feel the same way after hearing from our guest Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens. Juliëtte was born in the Netherlands and eventually relocated to the United States after doing her undergraduate work. You will hear how she moved her interests from speech language pathology to Audiology.   On this episode Juliëtte will tell us much about the field of audiology, especially about ways to offer hard of hearing persons more access to audio information than what traditional hearing aids provide. For me, having a Master's Degree got me the opportunity to understand much about the actual technology of loops and T-Coils.   Dr. Sterkens is quite passionate about her work and how much of an affect her efforts are having for many who cannot hear information in movie theaters, at conferences and even from televisions. On our episode you will even get a demonstration of the difference between traditional hearing aids and T-Coil technology. You will even hear about a study that addresses how hearing loss may contribute to dementia.   I look forward to hearing your thoughts once you finish this episode.     About the Guest:     Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens has over 40 years of experience in the field of audiology and hearing rehabilitation. Educated in the Netherlands as a Speech-Language Pathologist, she switched to the study of audiology after her marriage and move to Wisconsin in 1981. After attending a Hearing Loss Association of Wisconsin event, she discovered how hearing loops made a huge difference to her patients in Oshkosh WI and started the Oshkosh Hearing Loop Initiative in 2008. In 2012, now retired from private practice she became the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) Professional Advisor for Hearing Loop Technology. Thanks to grant funding from a private family foundation, she has lectured in Norway, the UK, Canada, Hungary, Germany and extensively in the US, as well as authored articles on the topic of telecoils, hearing loops and hearing accessibility.   Her efforts have led to nearly 900 hearing loop installations in Wisconsin and many more around the USA. For her efforts she received several awards, including the Wisconsin Audiologist of the Year, Arizona School of Health Sciences 2013 Humanitarian of the Year, and the American Academy of Audiology Presidential Awards. She serves on the Hear in Fox Cities board, a small non-profit organization that provides hearing aids to youth and children in North-East Wisconsin.     Links for Dr. Sterkens:   www.LoopWisconsin.com, www.hearingloop.org and www.hearingloss.org/GITHL   For a 1 minute “What is a Hearing Loop?” video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlnx3ZImTw0   Hear for yourself how a loop makes a huge difference at Convention Center: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcfqmVb-DmU   To learn more about hearing loss, and dealing with hearing loss, hearing aids and hearing loops:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHjXG4_Mi4Y   https://accessibe.com/blog/news/hearing-loops-provide-hearing-access-for-people-with-hearing-loss-   jsterkens@hearingloss.org       About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app.   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.     Transcription Notes Michael Hingson  00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i  capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson  01:20 Hi again, and welcome to unstoppable mindset. Today, we get to chat with Juliëtte Sterkens and Juliëtte started out as an audio pathologist. Well, she started out doing other things relating to audio, but now she's an expert in dealing with hearing loops, hearing aids and other things. And we're going to even get a demo in the course of today about what a hearing loop does, why it's better in a lot of cases, then a hearing aid and a number of other things. So I'm not going to give it all away. Where's the fun in that? So Juliëtte, welcome to unstoppable mindset. How are you?   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  01:58 I'm doing well. Thanks, Michael, for inviting me.   Michael Hingson  02:01 Well, thank you for coming on. I really appreciate you doing it. And I know that you have a lot to tell us about. So I'd love to start kind of at the beginning. You're from the Netherlands. So tell us a little bit about growing up there, what it was like school or anything else about your life, why you were in the Netherlands and why you went into what you went into and so on.   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  02:22 Michael, I was born to two Dutch parents. So that's how I lived in the Netherlands. My father was in the military. And we moved around quite a bit during my youth. So the nice thing about that is I have friends all over the country. Of course, the Netherlands isn't very big. And in 1976, after I graduated from high school, I enrolled in a program to become a logo pedorthist that is a speech pathologist speech language pathologist. But in the Netherlands, it also includes being a teacher for the deaf. So it also includes a Coupe de. But about a couple of weeks into my program, I met an American officer in the military, met him in a scuba diving club. And he and I dated two years while he was stationed in the Netherlands. And then he moved back to the states we dated long distance three years, I finished my schooling. My parents wanted me to work before just moving to the United States. I'm sure that we're hoping I would meet a lovely person in the Netherlands. But anyway, our love persisted. And I moved to the United States in 1981. And at that point, I had to choose whether I wanted to continue in speech language pathology, or whether I wanted to switch careers into audiology. And that's how come I switched and enrolled at the University of Wisconsin in their audiology program, and in 1983. I graduated as a newly minted American audiologist.   Michael Hingson  04:21 Well, of course, one of the questions that has to come up is since you moved to the US, your parents have accepted love and and the two of you together.   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  04:33 They sure have They sure have. I also am the proud. I don't want to call it owner. But we have two children and of my three sisters. I'm the only one with grandchildren. From my marriage. I have a sister who has bonus kids, but I have two children. And that meant that they came to visit me frequent ugly, of course. And we've also made the trek back to the Netherlands many times.   Michael Hingson  05:07 Why did you have to switch from speech pathology into audiology?   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  05:14 That's a good question. The ASHA the American Speech and Hearing the association certifies speech pathologists, as well as audiologist and they're two different fields of studies. And when I went to school, I had to get a master's degree. And I literally had to choose, do you want to become a speech pathologist? Do you want to become an audiologist. And at that time, I had already done some work at an audiology center in the Netherlands. I really enjoyed the field. I wanted to get more involved in the Netherlands, I didn't work with hearing aids and fit hearing aids. But in the US, audiologists not only do the hearing testing, but they also fit hearing aids. And that was just an area that fascinated me. So I switched. And I had it was a very small program at UW Oshkosh, but very involved in the community, and well known in Northeast Wisconsin for testing children. And that wasn't an area that I was very interested in. So I was very lucky, great professor, great fellow students, some of which are still friends to this day. Hard to believe it's almost 40 years ago since I graduated. What is the   Michael Hingson  06:45 difference between speech, pathology and audiology?   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  06:51 So speech pathologists are far more involved with speech, articulation, ameliorating the effects from strokes, helping kids that have cerebral palsy, have difficulty speaking, helping children in this country to acquire speech and language if they're hard of hearing, or deaf. And audiologists are far more involved with hearing with the ear. And in in some, not me, not me personally, but there's many audiologists involved in the testing of balance, as well. Balance and hearing.   Michael Hingson  07:34 So, you said not you, what is it that you do?   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  07:39 Well, back in 1983, I got hired as an audiologist in a private practice in Oshkosh. And in that office, we did hearing testing, industrial hearing testing, but we also did hearing aid fittings. And that's really the area that I eventually specialized in hearing aid fittings, helping people with hearing loss either acquired at or before birth, or acquired at a later age, to live successfully with hearing loss and help them adapt to hearing aids.   Michael Hingson  08:19 And so, you've done a lot of work and a lot of research and you've done a lot of speaking, right, haven't you as far as traveling around to talk about this topic?   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  08:29 I have. But really, what I probably should explain to the viewers or to the listeners first is that hearing loss is kind of misunderstood, right? In the sense that people think that hearing aids are like eyeglasses, if you have vision difficulties, unless it's macular degeneration, eyeglasses can essentially restore poor vision to near normal. And they think that hearing aids can restore hearing to normal. The problem is that hearing aids can't do that don't do that. Hearing aids at best correct for about half of the degree of hearing loss. And that means that people with hearing loss will continue to have difficulties hearing or understanding they see hearing, but in effect, they have difficulties understanding speech. When people speak fast, when there's background noise when people have accents. Hearing aids, in effect, pick up all the background noise and making it very difficult for that impaired ear to pick out the speech from the noise. So when a person wears or gets hearing aids, they're frequently surprised, you know, they think that they're gonna hear like they did when they were 25. For example, if I'm dealing with somebody who was worked in a lot of noise or farmed. And then as an audiologist, I would have to explain well, hearing aids can help, but they don't give you normal hearing. But, but there are workarounds, there are things that we can do to help overcome the limitations that your hearing loss imposes on you or that the hearing aids imposed on you. And just one simple example, on most hearing aids nowadays come or can come equipped with TV transmitters. So you plug in a little dongle in the back of your TV. And when you watch television, the TV sends the audio wirelessly to the hearing aids. So it's like you're hearing under earphones, it's fantastic, right? Hearing aids come with little microphones that you can clip on somebody's lapel, if you're driving in a car. And now you can hear that person very close to the microphone. But in public places people have trouble hearing. And could be a church could be a house of worship, could be a theater, could be a library meeting room, the hearing aids are really had their effective range is about three to six feet. For some people, it might be nine feet or 10 feet. But there is a limited range for hearing aids work well. And beyond that distance, they're going to pick up a lot of background noise and reverberation. And as a radio man, you know about that, you know, you know that you need to speak close to your microphone, because if you don't, your voice isn't gonna sound good on the recording. So for years, Miko, I explained to my patients that if they would go to the theater, if they would go to the church, they should pick up what is called an assistive listening device. And that's when people go, what the heck is an assistive listening device. Assistive Listening Devices, or systems or assistive listening systems are devices or systems mandated under the Americans with Disabilities Act, a law that you're very familiar with that law mandates that light switches have to be at a certain height in a room, that there needs to be enough clearance in the door so someone with a wheelchair can get in. And there's Braille signs installed in places so that people like you can read the Braille information and know whether to go right or left to the bathroom. Am I right?   Michael Hingson  12:52 As far as it goes? Course you need to know where the Braille sign is. And if absolute route, you don't, you don't get the information. So there are limitations to all of that. But I hear what you're saying.   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  13:03 Yes. And so these assistive listening systems were being installed. But they are, but the systems man required that the consumer would go to a service desk and pick up a listening device. And that means, you know, how do you know when you go to the theater that you have trouble hearing until the show starts right? So now you're going to go have to go back to the service desk, pick up a listening device and sit down? My experience was Michael, that my patients didn't bother with these systems. They didn't want to use these systems. Well, fast forward to 2008. I am at a meeting for consumers who are hard of hearing. And a professor from Hope College in Michigan came to speak about a topic called hearing loops. And I'm the only audiologist in the room and that it was familiar with hearing loops. They were already in schools for the deaf and hard of hearing in the Netherlands back in the 70s when I was going to school, but they were not being used in this country. And Dave Meyers started to explain how he had been able to foster hearing loops in Western Michigan, to great benefit of the users and maybe a little sidebar. A hearing loop is an assistive listening system that broadcasts the audio from the PA system wirelessly to the hearing aid as long as the hearing aid as a telecoil built in.   Michael Hingson  14:52 What isn't so coil.   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  14:53 It's a little copper coil, a little tiny coil that's maybe two millimeters. in height and millimeter in width, that is embedded in hearing aids and has been in hearing aids for 5060 years. And if you have a T coil in your hearing aid, and there is a hearing loop installed, when you go to the theater, you don't have to go to the front desk and pick up a system or a listening device, you can just sit, activate the telecoil on the hearing aid, generally, it means pushing a button on a hearing aid, and activate that feature in your hearing aid. And now the sound from the PAC system starts streaming direct in the hearing aid. And suddenly, the consumer, the user of the hearing aid, who was really struggling to hear voices from the stage, or from a lectern, or from an altar, can hear that audio wirelessly direct in their ear. And and if the hearing aid is programmed properly, it'll do so without any background noise.   Michael Hingson  16:09 Oh, and that? Oh, go ahead. No,   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  16:11 go ahead. Ask your question.   Michael Hingson  16:13 How is that different? Or why is that more effective than what you described earlier, which is the person who gets a hearing aid that has technology that plugs into the television then broadcast to the hearing,   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  16:28 ah, this technology that is used for little remote microphones or televisions is Bluetooth technology. But that it's the sound transmission is happening via Bluetooth. That technology cannot be used in live events, because there is a significant delay of the audio. Because of the processing that's happening, the sound has to come from a Bluetooth transmitter, go to a smartphone from the smartphone to the hearing aid. And if the Wi Fi in the building isn't very fast, the audio arrives in the ear at great latencies. So there is no at this time, public assistive listening systems that use Bluetooth that happen in real time. And for that reason, we use FM, infrared, or hearing loop technology for publicly installed assistive listening systems.   Michael Hingson  17:45 So the the coil and the loop on the loop is actually transmitting FM then that's the coil receives is that what I'm gathering   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  17:58 is what you're what's happening. The hearing loop, in its simplest form is a copper wire installed around the perimeter of a seated area. So let's say it's a meeting room, there's a hearing loop installed in the floor or in the ceiling. When an audio signal is is amplified through that wire, it creates changes in the magnetic field. And the coil, of course, can be magnetically induced, that signal can be picked up by the little coil in the hearing aid with the exact same clarity as the audio that's being broadcast by the   Michael Hingson  18:43 wire. How does the information get to the loop   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  18:49 from a microphone. So a hearing loop system needs to be connected to a microphone from a PA system that's installed in a room. So first and foremost, there has to be a PA system in the room, there has to be a microphone being used at the lectern, that signal isn't only sent to the speakers so that the audio is broadcast into the room. That signal is also broadcast to a hearing loop amplifier. And the amplifier is broadcasting the audio via electromagnetic waves into the room that the hearing aid can pick up.   Michael Hingson  19:34 So that's even different than you'd mentioned FM before. So you're not even really using FM there. No you're not. Unless you have a microphone that that does FM that goes to the PA system that goes to the loop.   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  19:47 Yes. So there are assistive listening systems that use FM technology. But that requires every user of the system to go and pick up an FM receiver, right. And frequently they come with headphones. Right and the headphones are generic, are not specifically programmed for the user's hearing aids. And the telecoil. And the hearing aid that the consumers wearing is programmed specifically for their hearing loss. So activating a telecoil, in a hearing aid and hearing in the loop means that the consumer hears the sound as it was meant for their individual prescription. So, in the grand scheme of things, if a consumer is either asked to go to a service desk and pick up a listening device, or just walk into a facility sit down, and when the show starts, turn on a telecoil. In the hearing aid, what do you suppose the consumer will choose?   Michael Hingson  21:00 They're gonna choose the thing that will give them the greatest ability to hear or to get the information that is that is actually being provided. So of course, they're going to use the looping the coil, if they have   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  21:14 they often they are, and it's, and it's so convenient. And so when I heard Dr. David Meyer speak in 2008, and he mentioned how hearing loops, were making a comeback, greater awareness of the ADEA and the requirement that these systems have to be hearing aid compatible. I just went, Oh, my God. I mean, there's the solution to my patient's problems. And basically, all I wanted to do Michael is helped my patients here in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, if I can get these loops installed in churches, and in the Oshkosh Grand Opera House, my patients are just going to think this is wonderful. And it was it blew my patients away how they could go to the church, and sit down and activate their telecoil. And here and from from starting what I initially call the Oshkosh hearing loop initiative, I also ended up seeing patients and Nina from Nina, I'm from Appleton and they want loops in their churches. So pretty soon it kind of blossomed out to the Fox Valley area, we are about an hour south of Green Bay, in Wisconsin. And then I also started educating audiologists in the state why this is good, not only for their patients, but it's also good for them. If your patients, if if the places where your patients do the most complaining about their hearing aids, if you can make them among their best places to hear, they're going to love you not only that, they're going to talk very positively about hearing aids, they're going to encourage their friends to look into this. So it's good PR, it's good advertising.   Michael Hingson  23:18 So a hearing. But so a loop essentially goes around the whole room perimeter.   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  23:27 It's there's different kinds of loop configurations. If a building doesn't have a lot of metal if it's an older structure, for example, now I'm just a Lutheran Church in Oshkosh. With a basement and community gathering space underneath the sanctuary. The loop can literally be installed as one big loop around the seated area in the church and the loop will not only broadcast the audio into the church itself into the sanctuary, but also into the basement. If a facility has a lot of metal, for example, a library meeting room with a lot of Reem steel reinforced concrete. That facility will require what is called a phased array loop. And it's an array of multiple wires in the shape of loops that are laid on top of each other in order to create a strong enough signal. So there's much more involved than me saying, Oh, you have to do a string or a wire around the perimeter of a room. And that's why train loop installers are so important in this process.   Michael Hingson  24:47 How expensive is it to install? Whoop, yeah. You know, that's going to be a question that come it's   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  24:54 absolutely going to be a question. Now. Do people ask you how expensive it is? To install real signs, or install wheelchair ramps, oh, sure. You get that question also. Okay, well, and   Michael Hingson  25:15 it's even well, when it comes to wheelchair ramps, it's Oh, it's too expensive, I can't afford to do that now. And the ADEA, I won't say gives them an out. But the ADEA says, unless you're doing other major modification to a building, then you don't need to go off a modifier to install the ramp. But if you're modifying then you have to include the ramp. Of course, if you're building a new building, the cost to put in a ramp is negligible, if anything at all, because you just designed it in. So it's all in the after part after market part where those costs come in for Braille signs. Again, there are assumptions as to how expensive or not it really is, so that the questions do come up. Yeah,   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  26:06 that's me know what, that's a very interesting perspective for me to learn about. In in Wisconsin, a lot of hearing loops are being installed in the price ranges of three 510 $1,000. It really again, it depends on the amount of metal in the building, the size of the facility, the size of the room that you want looped, and the cost of hiding the wire, the effort required to hide the wire. So if there's carpet tiles in the meeting room, they can just easily be pulled up. Sure, flat, flat wire can be installed underneath the carpet tiles, carpet tiles go down. And literally, it can be done in a day, in a couple of hours. They can also be installed in the ceiling. But you're absolutely right. If you're dealing with very large facilities, where there's permanent carpeting installed, now the carpeting has to be cut, right, and that people are leery of having that done. So in in Oshkosh, I found that the places that aren't even mandated to have this to have assistive listening systems installed, were the most receptive, and those were houses of worship. Because where do people go 5060 times a year, and want to hear need to hear, right. So a lot of my effort in the beginning, circled around places that I knew were remodeling. Places that I knew would be receptive. And those were the houses of worship my patients belong to. And, literally, I would go to meetings, if there was a new school in the process of being installed, I would reach out to the school or to the architects, a lot of my work has involved reaching out to architects who think that assist of all assistive listening systems are alike. And if that's the case, let's put in the cheapest one course. And that's an FM system. But there's much greater awareness among consumers. I have done a lot of work around the country educating hearing care professionals. And the Hearing Loss Association of America H L. A. They have started what is called a get in the hearing loop program. They are literally actively advocating on behalf of consumers with hearing loss.   Michael Hingson  29:02 Well, it's interesting, this is truly all about, if you will, electrical or electronic induction. Yes, having grown up in a science oriented world, I understand what electric transformers are, you know, we hear all the time about transformers and now a lot of the technology is a little bit different but really a transformer the thing that you would plug in and you would then get a stepped up current or voltage or whatever was all about induction. And we won't go into transformer theory here but it's perfectly understandable. Anyone that studies electricity and electronics. Why this system kind of works because the Europe you're literally just creating a magnetic field and the coil is the other part of if you will the transformer that is integrated into a hearing aid Were into an assisted living device, and is picking up the magnetic pulse changes from the loop. So directly from an electronic standpoint, this is electrically trivial. There's nothing new that we haven't known for years.   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  30:16 No, no, and but the issue has been that consumers aren't educated about this technology, they don't even know this type of accommodation exists. And there has been some resistance on behalf of the hearing care professionals who say, well, but putting a telecoil in a hearing aid makes it bigger, makes the hearing aid bigger. And while that is true, it also makes the hearing aid a lot more useful, a lot more beneficial. So it's, it's educating not just the consumer, but the hearing care professional that in the end, the consumer, where's the hearing aid to hear better, right. And it is up to the hearing care professionals to educate consumers, that these types of systems and technologies exist. So there's a lot of people who are walking on this earth with hearing aids that have built in telecoils. But the telecoil may have never been activated, it needs to be activated in the computer by the hearing care professional, the hearing care professional may have never demonstrated the benefit of a hearing loop. So I would love for the listeners to demonstrate what a hearing loop can do. And I have a little audio demonstration that if you would permit me, I'd be happy to play that so that the listeners can hear what the difference is all about. Sure,   Michael Hingson  32:03 let's do that. And you go ahead and set that up. And I will just explain what Juliet is doing is she's going to share her screen. She's enabled her audio, so that we'll be able to hear this demo and what you're going to hear I have not heard it all the way through. But what you will hear is what essentially, a person not close to a stage will hear just with a hearing aid. And then as I understand it, the telecoil will be activated.   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  32:33 Correct. So the first half is the audio as if it were coming through the hearing aids microphone, and the second half is as if it's coming through the loop. So let's see if technology works here we got right. She was dreading   32:52 getting older. What's the only way to avoid getting to die right now we all want to live a long life. We don't want to get older in order sitting there and are the young people in their 20s and 30s and 40s, making fun of older people making cracks about older people. They're making fun of what they themselves are going to become.   Michael Hingson  33:18 And it's clearer what happened there because at first what we were hearing was the microphone in the hearing aid picking up not only the speaker from some distance away, but all the other ambient sounds. Yeah, and no matter how directional, you make a microphone, it's still going to pick up What's between you and the person speaking. But then when the the loop and the coil were activated, or the loop was activated all along. But when the coil was activated, now you're hearing just what comes from the loop. So the only way you would hear ambient noise besides the speaker speaking is if the speaker's microphone picked up that information,   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  34:06 Michael II that's really perceptive. The hearing aid can be programmed to still pick up some ambient sound, because you can imagine, if you're very hard of hearing, and you switch your hearing aid to telecoil you stop being able to hear your own voice. You no longer hear the person sitting to your left or your right at that meeting. You're only hearing what's coming through the mic from the PA system. And that can be kind of isolating. And and in church, you can't hear yourself sing right. And so as an audiologist I can program the hearing aid to pick up ambient sound, but turn down the sensitivity by by five or by six or by 10 DESA Pulse so you can still hear, but it's a lot quieter. And that makes the sound from the loop stand out even more. So that the understanding the you know, the signal to noise ratio is improved to a level where you can just sit back and hear and follow the meeting with ease. And it blew my patients away. I mean, I had patients tell me, after they had an experience in a loop, one, one person told me and this is a gentleman who was very hard of hearing was only wearing one hearing aid, the other ear was deaf. And he said to me, I can hear so well in the loop. So that's what it must be like to be normal hearing. And he had been hard of hearing his whole life. But hearing in a loop can be life changing for people who have lost a lot of their hearing. And that's really what motivates me. And it was the reason I stepped out of my practice ankle. Back in 2012, I gave up my audiology practice, to become the H. L. A. 's national hearing loop advocate. And you know, Michael, of course, it helps that I like to talk. But I so I do a lot of consumer education, a lot of public speaking, professional meetings, lot of lectures, and then when the pandemic hits. It also gave me a new way to reach out to people via zoom. So I've done lots of zoom lectures about the technology, and just trying to reach more and more people. So you inviting me to this podcast is huge, because you've got a listenership different, you know, the more people hear of this technology, they go, wait, I may not use hearing aids, but my mom does. Or my dad or I have a neighbor, or I have a friend, or I belong to a church. And why do we have this in our church? No. And I'm really proud to tell you that we're almost at 500 churches in Wisconsin, almost 900 places have installed these hearing loop systems. And it's kind of moving by word of mouth, because they work. They work well. And once they're installed, it's like electrical wire. Once it's installed, you're done.   Michael Hingson  37:40 Going back to something that you said earlier. Today, in our world with hearing aids being manufactured in an ever increasing number, how many of the hearing aids include the little telecoils?   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  37:57 Yeah, the percentages vary for people who are severely hard of hearing. So these are people who without a hearing aid, can barely hear normal conversation or people to whom we have to shout in order to be barely heard. The numbers are between 50 and 90%. And frankly, it depends a little bit on the philosophy of the audiologist. My philosophy was, was really about giving my my patients as many tools in their hearing aid toolkit as I could give them. And some audiologists are perhaps working with manufacturers where the telecoil indeed makes the hearing aid a little bit larger. And in when that happens. They they may opt for the smaller hearing aid rather than ask the patient, where do you not want to hear? Right? I mean, you're getting a hearing aid to hear and the consumer doesn't really understand that the hearing aid is still a compromise. So a lot of my outreach has also been to educate consumers, how to buy hearing aids, what are the features that are important that they look at? And certainly if people are watching or listening to this recording, there's a website called hearing loss.org that is H L A's national website where there's lots of good information for consumers about hearing, living with hearing. We're living with hearing loss, how to buy hearing aids and there's also a website called hearing loop.org That is the website from Dr. David Myers at Hope College, it's only informational website so that consumers can learn more about hearing loops themselves.   Michael Hingson  40:15 So, again, though, going back to the discussion of hearing aid, manufacturing, there are still a number of hearing aids that are being constructed without putting the coils in them.   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  40:30 Correct? Alex some of it, why   Michael Hingson  40:35 not? How expensive? How expensive? Is it? To truly put a coil in maybe a better way to put it as why don't we just do it at all hearing aids? Because you don't know where they're going to end up?   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  40:45 Exactly. I wish you would come with me, when I talk to the hearing aid manufacturers and ask that common sense question. The coil itself has been estimated to add between two and $5 to the cost of a hearing aid. But to integrate it in the software in the programming of the device, obviously, there's a greater expense involved. And it's my understanding that there can be some interference with the coil, and the recharge ability of the hearing aid. So what we're seeing is that there are some rechargeable hearing aids on the market, where they don't add a telecoil to the device. But the manufacturers have heard me I've been very vocal at conferences, and meetings with manufacturers. And the manufacturers have now added telecoils to the remote microphones. So if you are listening to this broadcast, and you think I have a hearing aid, but I don't think I have a T coil all is not lost, you may be able to get access to the signals from hearing loops. If you ask if your audiologist can provide you with a remote control that has the T coil built in, it becomes a little bit more cumbersome, or a little bit trickier to use. Think of my mother who's 96. You know, she can find the push button on the hearing aid, but she would have a heck of a time with remote control and keeping a charge and all that other extra stuff that you have to do.   Michael Hingson  42:32 Yeah, and that's understandable. So it gets back to ease of use. What do you think, is the ramification for all this of now the FDA saying that we don't need to have prescriptions for hearing aids, which I would think is going to cause prices to drop, but also numbers of hearing aids probably to increase.   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  42:59 The good news is that there are some over the counter devices that have telecoils built in. So there aren't many. But there are a couple that have the T coil built in. And there's outreach being done to other manufacturers to include the telecoil. Again, because it doesn't add a lot to the expense of the devices. The over the counter devices, I think will make people more aware that something can be done. They may not be as adjustable to their specific hearing loss. They may not have the same sound. They may not be as durable. As some of the hearing aid devices. I mean, these hearing aid devices. I've worked with hearing aids that could easily last 6789 years. Imagine worn on your ears where you perspire, handled dirt and dust and what have you but these hearing aids keep on going. And I wonder about the durability of over the counter devices, are they going to be the same? And is the consumer going to know how to clean them how to maintain them what to do when they get earwax in them. The audiologist does a lot more than fitting the hearing aid. They counsel patients, you know how to live better with hearing loss or how they maintain the hearing aid. I used to see some people back every three or four months just because of the problems that they had with earwax and others I would only see once a year or only when they had a problem. But these over the counter devices, it means that the consumer has to become the expert. Right. And what are they going to do when the hearing aid malfunctions so they're going to take it back to Best Buy?   Michael Hingson  44:58 Yeah, that's, of course is the issue isn't it?   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  45:01 At this the issue, it is, you know, you can buy readers and they work for run of the mill difficulties with your eyes if you can no longer see fine print. But if you have great differences between eyes like I have, or if you have a astigmatism those glasses aren't going to work very   Michael Hingson  45:24 well for you. Right. But in, in, in reality there are there other reasons why glasses won't help other than just with age related macular degeneration. But but the reality is that we haven't collectively chosen to deal with that either. And I think that's what I'm hearing is the same thing. Regarding hearing because we, we just don't yet consider it the priority, it probably needs to be   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  45:56 now and and of course the baby boomers are aging, Michael, big time, you know, the oldest ones are turning is it's 77 this year. And we know that while hearing loss, its origins are going to start in your 30s and 40s. You know, with as far as hearing loss goes, it's important not to be exposed to noise. It's important to live a healthy life, it's also important to choose your parents wisely, because if they had hearing trouble, the odds are you are going to be dealing with it also. But hearing loss definitely accelerates in our 70s and 80s. I've seen this very clearly with my mother. And she's now to the point where she has to wear her hearing aids all the time. Otherwise, she misses out. And she does like to do that. And that means that as the baby boomers age, I think there will be more and more attention paid to the fact that hearing has a significant effect on our quality of life. And there's now also some studies to show that having hearing loss is a contributing factor to an earlier onset of dementia, it doesn't mean it's going to cause dementia, but it's going to contribute an untreated hearing loss has been identified as one of those risk factors. So   Michael Hingson  47:38 I use this Do you have any notion if you don't   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  47:41 hear well, if you kind of checkout, so to speak of conversation, if you're not involved with hearing, that part of the brain is no longer stimulated. And it means that you have to pay more attention to hearing you have to allocate if you will, more of your available brainpower to hear and that's taxing on a person. And so if you if you have it somewhere in your genetic makeup, the fact that you may be prone to dementia. If there is a family member with dementia, and you have beginning hearing loss, I would be the first person to go and do something about my hearing. Because I know that having hearing loss contributes accelerates the onset of dementia, if you will. So that's usually when people say, well, when should I start with hearing aids? I said if you have hearing loss, if there is a risk factor, if your parents have hearing loss, that means that you could be at risk for greater hearing loss as you age. And then if there's dementia in the family, I would start sooner rather than   Michael Hingson  49:14 later. I'm curious to see if if you're aware of this in any way. Have any similar studies been done regarding the whole concept of eyesight and loss of eyesight? Do you know I don't.   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  49:32 After a great question, though. Yes, yeah. Yes, I'm gonna make a note of it myself. So if I find anything, I'll let you know,   Michael Hingson  49:40 please. It would be interesting to know about that. Because I think that my belief anyway, is that the reality is we get a lot more information. Each of us gets a lot more information from what We hear than what we see no matter how good our eyesight is, because eyesight is still only really? What about 100? If that much 180 degrees roughly. So you don't hear what's you don't see what's behind you, you don't see what's above you unless you look. And typically you look because you hear. And so yeah, go ahead.   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  50:23 Yeah. All right ears, it just one example how incredible our ears are, right? First of all, they're attached to her brain, which is very important in the point that I'm trying to make, in that if you go to the beach, Michael, you don't have sight. But if I close my eyes, I can hear the birds flying up above. In front of me, I can hear the little children behind me, I can hear cars going to a parking lot. I can hear the waves, I can hear the wind. And I mean, it's a it's a complete scape. I can I can hear all this by just simply paying attention. And if I hear people talk, and I think they use the word Juliet in conversation, oh my God, my brain is just gonna go zoom, and try and focus on what these people are saying, because I think they're talking about me. When you were hearing aids, when you were hearing aids, Michael, all the sound is right in the ear, the ability to, to focus on sounds in the front and in the back. And the and up above and below, is diminished. And that's it's really it goes from 3d to maybe 2d or 1d. And that means that consumers really have a hard time picking out voices from background noise, no matter how good the hearing aids are,   Michael Hingson  52:11 are there any technological advances coming that will be able to reintroduce that multi dimensional sound scape, so that people will be able to tell directionality again,   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  52:28 not that I'm aware of what I am aware of, is that there is a lot of work being done on Bluetooth LE audio. And that's eventually going to allow somebody with a smartphone to share audio from their phone to multiple headsets. And the hope the hope it's not been accomplished yet, is that there will be a public assistive listening system available with Bluetooth LE audio as well. They've named the technology aura cast. And that might mean that the silent televisions at airports can be made audible if a consumer uses their smartphone and wireless ear plugs. But eventually, it would also mean that there could be audio broadcast from public places direct into hearing aids. Now, hearing aids are very small. They have very small antennas. We don't know what kind of audio delays they're going to be. But the Bluetooth special interest group is working very hard to try and include hearing aids as individual receivers for the broadcast of Bluetooth LE audio. And while they hope that this is going to happen in a year or two, I think it's going to take much longer. But if that happens, people with hearing aids are going to be able to hear announcements at an airport, get the audio from their TV or their smartphone and in church if the church has this technology installed, the hear this technology in their hearing aids. But it will it's it's it's a heavy lift, if you will consumers will all need new hearing aids all need new smart phones. I mean these dongles have to be installed the world over while there are a lot of countries including the UK that have mandated hearing loop technology as the technology of choice. So there has to have been some change made some changes in the law for that too. happen, I estimate about 10 years or so,   Michael Hingson  55:04 there is something called binaural sound and binaural microphones where you can have a microphone or two microphones that actually give you the ability to record directionality. And you can use earphones and actually hear the sound that sounds like, well, it could be coming from any direction. And I've seen and heard some really great demonstrations of binaural sound where listening through regular earphones, It even sounds like a person is behind me and talking. But they're using these microphones. They're not overly expensive. But it would be interesting to see how somebody could bring some of that binaural technology into what happens with hearing aids.   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  55:53 Yeah. And of course, it would require the use of microphones. And everything hinges on Well, proper use of microphones, as you're   Michael Hingson  56:03 sure. Yeah. But it's it is something to look at as the demand grows for being able to have technology that allows people to hear better. Yeah, so it will be interesting to see how good   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  56:20 I am. My guess is, yeah, my guess is that the gaming industry will be all over this.   Michael Hingson  56:27 So the gaming industry should, it would make it more possible for if they did it right. For me to be able to play games than it does. If you talk about virtual reality, if they truly did that, and built in the rest of the interfacing technology to allow me to be able to access games. You're right, it would be interesting, and it would be worth doing. I have a question that is unrelated somewhat to all this, you have used the term deaf and hard of hearing. And you have avoided hearing impaired why.   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  57:08 Generally, and and you know, there's people who are hard of hearing, who don't like the term hard of hearing, they call themselves a person with hearing loss. Some people prefer the term hard of hearing. A lot of people don't like the term hearing impaired. And why I think it's it's much more a it's a sensitivity, you know, how they feel about their own hearing loss. So if you're born hard of hearing, it is what it is. But your hearing isn't impaired it if you were born that way. But if I have not used the word DEAF, is that in the in the heart of hearing community, Deaf implies that there is no ability to hear sound. And people like that generally don't wear hearing aids. They use sign language and estimates estimates are between one and 3% of all people with hearing loss are essentially deaf and use sign language to communicate. The other 97%. use hearing aids to hear speech. And so frequently they don't use the you use the term deaf although sometimes they will. Just to make it simple. You know, they say I am deaf. And then people think, oh, this person can't hear. No worries, I will wave to you when it's time to board the airplane, for example.   Michael Hingson  58:55 Yeah, in our society, and this is why I asked the question, not setting you up. But just to make the dichotomy comparison, we still refer to people as blind or visually impaired and visually impaired has two connotation problems one visually, I don't think that overall, you can say I'm different, because I happen to not see so visually, I don't look different. And impaired. Again, the same thing. And I think that's exactly what you say. We're not impaired. But that's still what we use because people so greatly emphasize eyesight over anything else. And if we've heard something today, with you, that makes a lot of sense. It's in reality, we do get more information from what we hear, but we don't tend to focus on that because we are taught that without eyesight and to a degree without being able to hear we're just lost souls and that's just not the way it is at all. Now   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  59:59 and A the Hearing Loss Association of America once a year has a conference. And it's you know, in different areas of the country, it's anywhere between, you know, 515 100 people who attend these conferences, and people with hearing loss. You know, it's a spectrum, I want to call it the spectrum disorder, some people have very mild hearing loss, but their ears have so much trouble discriminating speech, that they really struggle and almost function as if they're deaf. And there are people who are very hard of hearing, but as long as they're wearing a hearing aid, or a cochlear implant, they do quite well. But, you know, these, these come the conferences focuses on how to live better with hearing loss, what technology can do for you. I mean, there have been such tremendous changes, and improvements in technology, that IF listeners have family members who are very hard of hearing, or are really struggling with hearing aids, I encourage them to look into cochlear implants, they can be life changing. Cochlear implants can be of benefit of people who have lost almost all of their hearing, and with the implant are able to hear, again, at the three to six foot distance with great ease. So lots of technology upgrades, but there's still devices with microphones on the ears. And for that reason, they still need assistive technology. And that's why, you know, I won't be without work as a hearing loop advocate.   Michael Hingson  1:01:53 For a long time. You mentioned to me somewhere on the line that you're doing some work with Google Maps? We are and that if you would   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  1:02:01 well, but it's I'm very excited to tell to talk about this, because as a consumer, how do you know where a hearing loop is installed? Right. There are some websites that try and keep track of where these loops are installed. But Google Maps as part of his accessibility feature, are is now permitting businesses to list hearing loops as an accommodation. And you're probably familiar with the fact that Google Maps lists whether a place is accessible for wheelchair users, whether the bathrooms are accessible, or whether they have wheelchair ramps, while they now also permit the dimensioning of assistive hearing loops. And the best place at this time to go is the hearing loss. That org website and Google the word Kiddle. Git H L, which stands for get in the hearing loop, because the hearing loop advocates in the Hearing Loss Association have developed a complete toolkit and the Google Maps toolkit so that we can educate consumers how to find these hearing loops on the web. And if you don't find one, but you sure wish there was one. We teach people how to write reviews on Google Maps. Because you know, reviews work when you go to a restaurant, what do you do? I personally check the reviews before I make a reservation. And so if these reviews list that consumers love the hearing loop that they have installed, businesses are going to be more aware that this type of accommodation pays off is important, right?   Michael Hingson  1:04:07 Absolutely. Before we close, I thought it would be fun to do one more demo with something that we did before we started. And I do it because I want people to understand why we do the podcast the way we do because I always ask people who come on to provide us with them using a microphone and not just a built in laptop microphone, and I'm going to show you why. It's important that like you did today your audio was great. You use a headset. Here's what it sounds like. If you're listening or if you're speaking to me and you're just using your laptop computer microphone, check this out. Okay, I have now switched to the microphone built into my camera, and you can hear what the total difference is. It's one Trouble. And this is what we don't ever like to get on podcasts. Because what we want people to be able to do is to hear our patch podcasts Well, right?   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  1:05:11 That's right. That's right. And you know, and Michael, I have done that same demonstration just by removing my headset and moving it about two feet. This is about as far as my arms reach. And now I'll put the microphone back on my ears. And people go, Whoa, that's a huge   Michael Hingson  1:05:31 difference. Well, huge difference. And even the reverberations are less from your microphone than they are from the laptop microphone, which is omnidirectional and supposed to be able to pick things up from a distance. But it sounds horrible.   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  1:05:46 It sounds horrible. And because we've all been on Zoom, we are far more aware. But people with as a normal hearing person, one can accommodate for those changes, it takes more effort. But I could listen to you if I had to, right. But a person with hearing loss, who is already hanging on by their fingertips, so to speak, in order to hear you because maybe you talk fast, or maybe you have an accent. If you talk through your video microphone, that person will fall off the cliff, their fingers, they're gonna have to let go, because they struggle already so much. And I'll be honest, I didn't realize how much my patients were struggling in those public places until I got involved with hearing loops. And then it was the quarter dropped just like, well, of course, they can hear better in the loop. And so that just motivated me to go at this even harder. And I'm happy to say it's a message that's resonating around the world around the country, and people are listening and your podcast. Thank you, Michael is going to make a difference.   Michael Hingson  1:07:16 Well, I hope so. And we really appreciate you being here as well tell me and tell the folks listening, how can they maybe reach out to you and learn more about this, contact you and so on? Yep,   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  1:07:31 I have a little website called loopWisconsin, www dot loopwisconsin.com. And my email, my contact information is right on the website. They can also reach out to the get in the hearing loop committee from H L A. And again, if they go to the hearingloss.org website and click on hearing loop resources, they'll be able to find an email address there. And then a whole group of hearing loop advocates will jump into gear. So if people have questions about loops, or about whether their hearing aids have telecoils, we are all very willing to help. If you don't ask, you won't get the help.   Michael Hingson  1:08:21 Right. Exactly right. And I also know that we met you through Sheldon Lewis at accessibe we did. So where does accessibly fit into what you do.   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  1:08:33 I reached out to accessibe to see what I could do to make my website accessible for people with disabilities. And accessibe got me in touch with Sheldon and I can't say enough about the context that I have made through accessibe and how accessibe has helped to kind of get that message out there. I think they've been very focused on people with who are blind or people who are a mobility impaired but I don't think they had given hearing loss and hearing accessibility a lot of thought and I tell you they've pulled out all stops so I want to thank accessibe for doing what it's done for this technology and I just had a blog post it and I will send you the link Michael so that you can add it to your notes. We I was just posted last week by accessibe   Michael Hingson  1:09:39 actually I think accessibe has given a lot of thought but some of the things that accessibe does with the artificial intelligent widget and so on are not as easy to add present. Bring into the automated world from a standpoint of deaf or hard of hearing that It is still technology that has to catch up a lot. So it has to be done more through manual remediation, but accessibe is aware of it. So it's great that you and accessibe have established a relationship that I think will help. Well, I want to thank you again for being here. We were supposed to do this for an hour. And we are now up to 70 minutes, because we're having way too much fun here, right? Yes,   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  1:10:25 yes. Well, you and I could probably talk for another half hour. But   Michael Hingson  1:10:30 yeah, I think they might get bored with us. So I want to thank you again for being here. And I want to thank you for listening to us. Please reach out. I'd love to hear your thoughts and comments about this today. Juliette has been wonderful. You can reach me at Michaelhi at accessibe A C C E S S I B E.com. I also invite you to go to my podcasts page, which is www dot Michael hingson h i n g s o n.com/podcast. And wherever you're listening to the podcast today, like on Apple, iTunes or wherever, please give us a five star review. We appreciate your reviews. We appreciate your thoughts. But I would really appreciate you reaching out to me and telling me what you thought things that we ought to improve or if you love us, that's great, too, then if you know of more guests that we ought to have and Juliette you as well, if you know of other people who we ought to have honest guests on unstoppable mindset. We would love to hear from you about that. So again, Juliette, I want to thank you for being here and educating us a whole lot today. This has been absolutely enjoyable, and fun.   Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens  1:11:44 Thank you very much, Michael.   Michael Hingson  1:11:51 You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. I hope that you'll join us again next week, and in future weeks for upcoming episodes. To subscribe to our podcast and to learn about upcoming episodes, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com slash podcast. Michael Hingson is spelled m i c h a e l h i n g s o n. While you're on the site., please use the form there to recommend people who we ought to interview in upcoming editions of the show. And also, we ask you and urge you to invite your friends to join us in the future. If you know of any one or any organization needing a speaker for an event, please email me at speaker at Michael hingson.com. I appreciate it very much. To learn more about the concept of blinded by fear, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com forward slash blinded by fear and while you're there, feel free to pick up a copy of my free eBook entitled blinded by fear. The unstoppable mindset podcast is provided by access cast an initiative of accessiBe and is sponsored by accessiBe. Please visit www.accessibe.com. accessiBe is spelled a c c e s s i b e. There you can learn all about how you can make your website inclusive for all persons with disabilities and how you can help make the internet fully inclusive by 2025. Thanks again for listening. 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Are you looking for more flexibility and freedom than your current job can give you? Starting a part-time private practice might be the answer. In this episode of Private Practice Success Stories, I sat down with Farwa Husain, a Start and Grow Your Private Practice Student, who started her own private practice that allows her to work only three days a week and with the clients she is passionate about- Gestalt Language Processors. Having her own private practice offers more flexibility and higher pay than she was getting in the schools. It also allows her to pick up her kids at school and have the flexibility to be there for her family when they need her since her husband travels for work. In this episode, Farwa talks about how having a private practice has allowed her to be joyful in her practice again and how she's proud of what she's built. She also shares her tips on networking, community, and getting referrals. Farwa Husain is an experienced bilingual speech language pathologist and private practice owner of One-on-One Speech Therapy located in Raritan, NJ. She obtained her Master of Science degree in Speech Language Pathology from Teachers College, Columbia University. Farwa presented at the 2022 American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA) National Convention on ”Using Natural Language Acquisition to Support Autistic and Neurotypical Gestalt Language Development .“ She was awarded the 2021 and 2022 Award for Continuing Education (ACE) from ASHA. Farwa is currently serving as President of Morris County Speech and Hearing Association. Farwa takes a holistic, sensory-driven, play-based approach to support children's language development and goals. In Today's Episode, We Discuss:Why Farwa decided to start a pediatric private practiceThe freedom you get when you have a private practiceHow the Start and Grow programs helped Farwa start her businessThe joy that having a private practice has brought FarwaHow it has impacted her familyWhere Farwa's referrals come fromHow having a specialty helped grow her practiceThe importance of forming communities Why you should always charge your worthI hope you enjoyed this conversation with Farwa! I love how she put herself and her family first. She created a part-time private practice that allows her the flexibility and finances that her family needs to thrive. To learn more about how we help SLPs and OTs start, grow, and scale private practices, send us a DM on Instagram - @IndependentClinician - with the word START or GROW and let's chat about your situation and how we can help you!Resources Mentioned: Visit Farwa's website: https://www.oneononespeechtherapy.com/Follow Farwa on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/one.on.one.speechtherapy/Where We Can Connect: Follow the Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/private-practice-success-stories/id1374716199Follow Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/independentclinician/Connect on Facebook:

Jamie is joined by Lenora Edward, Speech Language Pathologist (SLP), to discuss language development, speech, listening, and warning signs. As an SLP, Lenora describes her self as a specialist that works “above the neck”—think feeding, socialization, listening, talking, communicating, etc… Discussed in this episode: -Feeding -Eating -Speech -Language -Communicating with your child -Cognitive skills -Swallowing -Understanding language -Expressing language -Language development -Nonverbal communication -Pandemic -Mask wearing -Facial expressions -Warning signs -Growth and development -Face to face interaction -American Speech and Language Board -Early intervention Speech Resources: Find a professional: https://www.betterspeech.com/ Book a free consultation with Better Speech: https://www.betterspeech.com/free-consultation Sponsors: The Silver Post (perfect gift for grandparents and loved ones): https://www.hello.thesilverpost.com/ code: NAPSFAMILY Follow us on IG @nurturebynaps

Kathryn Wilson Linder M.A., CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVT is a speech-language pathologist, teacher of the deaf and Auditory-Verbal therapist, with more than 40 years of experience as an educator, therapist, and consultant in public school, private practice, home-based, and clinical settings. From 2014 until 2018, Kathryn held the position of Coaching and Mentoring Leader for Hearing First, This followed a position as Director of FIRST YEARS at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Kathryn is a founding member of the American Cochlear Implant Alliance, has been a member of the Coordinating Committee for the American Speech and Hearing Association Special Interest Group, Hearing and Hearing Disorders in Childhood and has served on the Board of Directors for The CARE Project. Kathryn has contributed to the professional literature as an author of several articles on a variety of topics. She provides professional learning opportunities both nationally and internationally and mentors professionals pursuing certification in Listening and Spoken Language practice. You can listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts or at: www.3cdigitalmedianetwork.com/the-listening-brain-podcast    

Language develops in young children at such a wide range, how is a parent to know when something is a concern? Dorothy and Alex are joined by Seven Bridges Speech Pathologists Shannon Kong and Jordan Welk to discuss language milestones for children 0-5, and when to seek additional support. Learn more about Seven Bridges Therapy: https://www.sevenbridgestherapy.com/ American Speech and Hearing Association: www.asha.org

Kristin Bowers, M.A., CCC-SLP is a certified and licensed Speech Language Pathologist with experience in a variety of settings with difference disorders and age groups. She holds a Certificate of Clinical Competency issued by the American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA), is licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and holds a Level II Teaching Certification issued by the PA Department of Education.  Kristin earned both her B.A. in Communication Science and Disorders and her Masters degree in Speech Language Pathology from the University of Pittsburgh. She also holds a certificate in the Conceptual Foundations of Medicine. She has worked in Pittsburgh Public Schools Early Intervention program, providing speech and language therapy to the 3-5 age group. In addition to serving children with articulation, phonological, fluency and language disorders in this position, Kristin worked within the program's autism support and multiple disabilities classrooms. Currently, Kristin works for a local Intermediate Unit providing services to school-age children in the Pittsburgh area.  In addition to her work with children in the Pittsburgh area, Kristin has traveled extensively utilizing her knowledge of speech, language, and teaching. In 2010 she taught English to children in Tanzania, followed by a month in India teaching English to adult Tibetan refugees. In 2012, she worked on a team with the Bosnia Autism Project, where she traveled to Sarajevo to help provide training and skills to professionals working with children with autism, as well as their families. Kristin is committed to providing the best services for each client and is excited about being able to provide private therapy to further meet the needs of children and adults in Pittsburgh. In order to do this, she is regularly involved in trainings and continuing education. She also develops many of her own materials, customized for the goals and needs of her students and clients. Kristin's links: kiwispeech.com/slpbigkidsto get the Fall Freebie https://bit.ly/3DCx3o3 for the Articulation Logic Problems https://bit.ly/3gLqoPk for the Secret Code Boom Cards https://www.kiwispeech.com/blog/dont-schedule-iep-meetings-in-the-mornings for the blog post on productivity.   And the book was When, by Daniel Pink (also mentioned in the blog post).   Kim's YouTube resource: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b--Ndkp9_40   You listen to this and all episodes of the podcast at: www.3cdigitalmedianetwork.com/telepractice-today-podcast  

Guest host Ciku Theuri speaks with music writer Jordannah Elizabeth about the intimate relationship between music and Black American speech. That connection was never closer than in the 1930s and 40s when Cab Calloway's Hepster Dictionary and Sister Rosetta Tharpe's groundbreaking rock 'n' roll established new artistic and linguistic pathways. Jordannah Elizabeth is the founder of the Feminist Jazz Review and author of the upcoming A Child's Introduction to Hip Hop. Music excerpts in this episode by Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Cab Calloway and His Orchestra, The Ink Spots, Roscoe Dash, Gucci Mane, Tems, Nbhd Nick and Sarah, the Illstrumentalist. Photo of Bill Robinson, Lena Horne and Cab Calloway from the 1943 musical film, Stormy Weather, via Wikimedia Commons. Read a transcript of the episode here. Subscribe to Subtitle's newsletter here.

Guest host Ciku Theuri speaks with music writer Jordannah Elizabeth about the intimate relationship between music and Black American speech. That connection was never closer than in the 1930s and 40s when Cab Calloway's Hepster Dictionary and Sister Rosetta Tharpe's groundbreaking rock 'n' roll established new artistic and linguistic pathways. Jordannah Elizabeth is the founder of the Feminist Jazz Review and author of the upcoming A Child's Introduction to Hip Hop. Music excerpts in this episode by Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Cab Calloway and His Orchestra, The Ink Spots, Roscoe Dash, Gucci Mane, Tems, Nbhd Nick and Sarah, the Illstrumentalist. Photo of Bill Robinson, Lena Horne and Cab Calloway from the 1943 musical film, Stormy Weather, via Wikimedia Commons. Read a transcript of the episode here. Subscribe to Subtitle's newsletter here.

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Get .1 ASHA CEU hereEpisode SummaryEffective and efficient speech sound therapy is like poker. Find out how in this week's episode, entirely about the meat and potatoes of pediatric speech therapy-intervention for speech sound disorders. If you are working with kids who have complex speech sound delays or disorders, don't miss this chat with Kelly Vess and find out just how to add some serious oomf to your speech sound therapy secret sauce. Kelly is a research-to-practice SLP and author who has dedicated her career to helping preschoolers with speech sound disorders gain stronger speech skills, faster. In this hearty episode, Kelly walks us through the process of selecting appropriate treatment targets and enthusiastically outlines the complexity approach to speech sound intervention. If you want to make the most out of your 30-60 minutes a week (or less!) with your speech sound students, tune in to learn how to take fireworks over a chisel to the rock of speech sound intervention and help your kiddos get to mastery faster. Course AccommodationsThe transcript for this course is provided below. You can also email us at ceu@slpnerdcast.comLearning Outcomes and Course DescriptionThis course reviews strategies for selecting cluster treatment targets and how multi-modal cueing can be used for accurate productions. This course also reviewed how to make informed clinical judgments in selecting treatment targets.After this course participants will be able to:1) Select cluster treatment targets based on multiple phonological processes present to improve efficiency of treatment 2) Assess how stimulable treatment targets are to accurate production provided multi-modal cueing 3) Make informed clinical judgements in selecting treatment targets based on phonological processes (patterns), variability of production, stimulability for accuracy, and developmental complexitySpeaker DisclosuresKelly Vess financial disclosures: Kelly is the author of, "Speech Sound Disorders: Comprehensive Evaluation and Treatment," for which she receives royalties. Kelly Vess non-financial disclosures: Kelly is a member of ASHA Special Interest Group 1: Language Learning and Education.Kate Grandbois financial disclosures: Kate is the owner / founder of Grandbois Therapy + Consulting, LLC and co-founder of SLP Nerdcast.Kate Grandbois non-financial disclosures: Kate is a member of ASHA, SIG 12, and serves on the AAC Advisory Group for Massachusetts Advocates for Children. She is also a member of the Berkshire Association for Behavior Analysis and Therapy (BABAT), MassABA, the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) and the corresponding Speech Pathology and Applied Behavior Analysis SIG. Amy Wonkka financial disclosures: Amy is an employee of a public school system and co-founder for SLP Nerdcast.Amy Wonkka non-financial disclosures: Amy is a member of ASHA, SIG 12, and serves on the AAC Advisory Group for Massachusetts Advocates for Children.Time Ordered Agenda15 minutes: Introduction, Disclaimers and Disclosures15 minutes: Review of how to select cluster treatment targets to improve efficiency of treatment15 minutes: Review of how stimulable treatment targets are to accurate production provided multi-modal cueing.10 minutes: Review of how to make informed clinical judgements in selecting treatment targets based on a variety of motor speech variables5 minutes: Summary and ClosingReferences and ResourcesBaker, E., Williams, A. L., Mcleod, S., & McCauley, R. (2018). Elements of phonological interventions for children with speech sound disorders: The development of a taxonomy. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 27(3), 906-935. doi:10.1044/2018_ajslp-17-0127Brumbaugh, K. M., & Smit, A. B. (2013). Treating children ages 3–6 who have speech sound disorder: A survey. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 44(3), 306–319. https://doi.org/10.1044/0161-1461(2013/12-0029)Case, J., & Grigos, M. I. (2020). A framework of motoric complexity: An investigation in children with typical and impaired speech development. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63(10), 3326–3348. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_jslhr-20-00020Gierut, J. A. (2007). Phonological complexity and language learnability. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 16(1), 6–17. https://doi.org/10.1044/1058-0360(2007/003) Storkel, H. L. (2018a). Implementing evidence-based practice: Selecting treatment words to boost phonological learning. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 49(3), 482-496. doi:10.1044/2017_lshss-17-0080Storkel, H. L. (2018b). The complexity approach to phonological treatment: How to select treatment targets. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 49(3), 463-481. doi:10.1044/2017_lshss-17-0082Thompson, H. & Cummings, A. (2012, Noveember). Phonological complexity: Using three-element clusters in speech sound disorder treatment. Poster presented at the American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association (ASHA) National Convention. Atlanta, GA.Vess, K. Burgess, R., Corless, E., Discenna, T. (2016, November). Selecting complex consonant cluster targets: Are certain sound combinations more efficacious than others? Poster session presented at Annual American Speech, Language and Hearing Association, Philadelphia, PA.Vess, K., Hansen, L., Mae-Smith, M., Ridella, M., & Steinberg, E. (2015, November). Evidence-based intervention strategies to effectively treat preschoolers with speech sound disorders. Poster session presented at Annual American Speech, Language and Hearing Association, Denver, CO.Vess, K., Coppiellie, Ingraham, B., Reidt, M. (2017, November). Targeting /ɹ/ consonant clusters: Does generalization occur across phonetic contexts? Poster session presented at Annual American Speech, Language and Hearing Association, Los Angeles, CA.Vess, K., Liovas, M., Mocny, A., Vuletic, D. (2018, November). Applying the complexity approach to effectively treat severe speech impairment in preschoolers with ASD. Poster session presented at Annual American Speech, Language and Hearing Association, Boston, MA.DisclaimerThe contents of this episode are not meant to replace clinical advice. SLP Nerdcast, its hosts and guests do not represent or endorse specific products or procedures mentioned during our episodes unless otherwise stated. We are NOT PhDs, but we do research our material. We do our best to provide a thorough review and fair representation of each topic that we tackle. That being said, it is always likely that there is an article we've missed, or another perspective that isn't shared. If you have something to add to the conversation, please email us! Wed love to hear from you!__SLP Nerdcast is a podcast for busy SLPs and teachers who need ASHA continuing education credits, CMHs, or professional development. We do the reading so you don't have to! Leave us a review if you feel so inclined!We love hearing from our listeners. Email us at info@slpnerdcast.com anytime! You can find our complaint policy here. You can also:Follow us on instagramFollow us on facebookWe are thrilled to be listed in the Top 25 SLP Podcasts!Thank you FeedSpot!

Are you ready to take your private practice full-time?  I know when you are first getting started, it can seem overwhelming to think about everything you need to do to get to that point. In this episode of Private Practice Success Stories, we are talking to one of my students, Kristin Beasley,  who started her private practice and grew it from zero to 10 clients in one month!  She provided high-quality service to her clients and the referrals started rolling in. She took her private practice full-time and now enjoys much more balance and fulfillment than ever before.  Kristin has extensive experience in the field of Speech-Language Pathology, as she has worked in several settings, including public and private education, early intervention, pediatric and adult medical facilities, and clinic-based and home health settings.  Kristin has experience in a multitude of speech, language, and feeding disorders, ranging from birth through adulthood.  While the understanding, knowledge, and experience provide a foundation and basis for therapy, Kristin's passion for families and relationships brings her skills to life.  Kristin's primary focus is the importance of building and growing relationships with her clients and families.   Her educational background includes a Bachelor of Science in Speech and Hearing Sciences and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Arizona in 2003 and a Master of Arts in Speech-Language Pathology from Northwestern University in 2006.  Kristin holds credentials with the American Speech and Hearing Association and is a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist in the state of Arizona.   Kristin lives in Arizona with her husband, three daughters, and two Goldendoodles. Hiking, traveling, and exploring new adventures are a few of Kristin's favorite things.  In Today's Episode, We Discuss: Why Kristin almost left the field of speech pathology How she decided to start a private practice How referrals grew Kristin's business quickly What Kristin did to take her practice full-time What Kristin's business looks like now How she utilizes different payers sources that send her referrals Kristin's mentality when her business faces a setback I love that Kristin pointed out that there are seasons of life that are really hard and there are really beautiful seasons. Yes, starting a private practice can seem hard, but just think about how beautiful it will be when you reach your business goals.  I have had so many students that have really impressed me and Kristin is one of them. She stands out as someone who keeps her eyes on the prize and does exactly what it takes to make it happen.  If you are just starting out, the https://www.startyourprivatepractice.com/waitlist (Start Your Private Practice Program) is for you. If you have already started and are looking to grow your business, the http://growyourprivatepractice.com (Grow Your Private Practice) program is what you need.  I'm doing an upcoming training specifically for SLPs and OTs looking to shift into private practice full-time. Visithttp://growyourprivatepractice.com ( GrowYourPrivatePractice.com) to fill out the quick form and get your invitation!  Resources Mentioned:  Follow West Valley Speech on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/westvalleyspeech/ (https://www.instagram.com/westvalleyspeech/) Check out Kristin's website: https://www.westvalleyspeech.com/ (https://www.westvalleyspeech.com/) Register for the Grow Your Private Practice training:  https://www.growyourprivatepractice.com/ (https://www.growyourprivatepractice.com/) Where We Can Connect:  Follow the Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/private-practice-success-stories/id1374716199 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/private-practice-success-stories/id1374716199) Follow Me on Instagram:...

Get .1 ASHA CEU hereRemember the last time you had a headache that Advil just wouldn't touch as you powered through your back to back sessions? Or maybe you can recall the last bout of GI revenge that ensued following some poor decisions at a fast food drive-through for lunch? Perhaps you weren't as peppy with your clients, made a bit less small talk with your colleagues, and were a bit short with your partner. “When we don't feel well, we don't do well” (ain't' that the truth!) and our students with complex communication needs (CCN) are no different. In this episode, Dr. Margaret Bauman and Jennifer Leighton share their experiences and advice, encouraging SLP's to consider potential, underlying medical conditions that may be leading to behavioral changes in individuals with CCN. Through stories of her clinical experiences with struggling patients, Dr. Bauman describes several scenarios within which a child's change in behavior was an indication of an underlying condition of pain or illness that was not obvious. Gear up for some detective work as this observant duo share compassionate tips for digging deeper, asking questions, and supporting our clients with CCN in new ways that recognize how strongly pain and illness shape behavior, and how loudly behavior communicates. Learning OutcomesDiscuss the importance of considering medical conditions for individuals with complex communication needsDiscuss ways to identify when individuals with complex communication needs may be expressing painIdentify at least 3 medical conditions that could be associated with complex communicatorsDisclosures:Jennifer Leighton financial disclosures: Jen is an employee of a school system. Jennifer Leighton non-financial disclosures: Jen is a member of the American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA) and the Massachusetts Speech and Hearing Association (MSHA)Dr Bauman financial disclosures: employed as a neurologist in various outpatient hospital settings. She is also a researcher through the Boston University School of Medicine. Dr Bauman non-financial disclosures: Dr. Bauman is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, American Academy of Pediatrics, the International Society for Autism Research, and the Society for Neuroscience, and serves on various advisory boardsKate Grandbois financial disclosures: Kate is the owner / founder of Grandbois Therapy + Consulting, LLC and co-founder of SLP Nerdcast. Kate Grandbois non-financial disclosures: Kate is a member of ASHA, SIG 12, and serves on the AAC Advisory Group for Massachusetts Advocates for Children. She is also a member of the Berkshire Association for Behavior Analysis and Therapy (BABAT), MassABA, the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) and the corresponding Speech Pathology and Applied Behavior Analysis SIG. Amy Wonkka financial disclosures: Amy is an employee of a public school system and co-founder for SLP Nerdcast. Amy Wonkka non-financial disclosures: Amy is a member of ASHA, SIG 12, and serves on the AAC Advisory Group for Massachusetts Advocates for Children.Time Ordered Agenda:10 minutes: Introduction, Disclaimers and Disclosures20 minutes: Descriptions of the importance of considering medical conditions for individuals with complex communication needs15 minutes: Descriptions of individuals with complex communication needs and they may be expressing pain 10 minutes: Descriptions of medical conditions that could be associated with complex communicators 5 minutes: Summary and ClosingDisclaimerThe contents of this episode are not meant to replace clinical advice. SLP Nerdcast, its hosts and guests do not represent or endorse specific products or procedures mentioned during our episodes unless otherwise stated. We are NOT PhDs, but we do research our material. We do our best to provide a thorough review and fair representation of each topic that we tackle. That being said, it is always likely that there is an article we've missed, or another perspective that isn't shared. If you have something to add to the conversation, please email us! Wed love to hear from you__SLP Nerdcast is a podcast for busy SLPs and teachers who need ASHA continuing education credits, CMHs, or professional development. We do the reading so you don't have to! Leave us a review if you feel so inclined!We love hearing from our listeners. Email us at info@slpnerdcast.com anytime! You can find our complaint policy here. You can also:Follow us on instagramFollow us on facebookWe are thrilled to be listed in the Top 25 SLP Podcasts!Thank you FeedSpot!

Dr. Esther Fogel, a clinical audiologist, is the owner and director of Comprehensive Audiology. She received a Master's Degree in Speech Language Pathology from the University of North Texas and a Doctorate in Audiology from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She completed her residency in Audiology at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center's Hearing and Speech Center. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Audiology and a member of the American Speech and Hearing Association. Dr. Fogel's areas of expertise include diagnostic audiological evaluations, hearing aid fittings, auditory brainstem response (ABR) evaluations, cochlear implant evaluations and mapping, and fitting of custom hearing protection. Dr. Fogel's mission is to provide a comprehensive approach to her patients' hearing health care. In her practice, Dr. Fogel assesses each patient individually using the latest state-of-the-art diagnostic tools and presents a personalized rehabilitation plan to fit each patient's needs. Dr. Fogel lives in Lawrence, NY, with her husband and four daughters. While not working, she enjoys reading, playing piano, and cooking for family and friends.

Marie is a licensed speech-language pathologist with a graduate degree in speech-language pathology from the University of North Carolina- Greensboro. She also possesses the national accreditation, certificate of clinical competency, from the American Speech and Hearing Association. She is a recent graduate of The Myo Method, an orofacial myofunctional therapy course and is a private practice owner currently going through the credentialing process. She has also created “My Speech Sounds” which are a line of coloring books designed to accompany therapy by providing simple  practice steps at the word, phrase and sentence levels. Myofunctional therapy, early intervention, pediatrics and multicultural aspects (since she is half Asian and grew up in a bilingual home) are just a few of her clinical interests. Prior to becoming an SLP, Marie had two previous careers. Her first career and love was fine jewelry. Growing up, she often accompanied her mother to gem shows. Then her mom would draw out designs and have these items made by jewelers that were close friends of her family overseas. After spending approximately seven years in fine jewelry professionally and even owning a small jewelry store of her own, she changed careers into finance. Marie landed a position as a financial specialist and was promoted to a small business licensed financial specialist with a large national bank based out of North Carolina. In this role, she acquired her Series 6 and 63 investment and insurance licenses. With a focus on small business, she handled businesses ranging from $0 - $3 million in annual revenue. Being a one point of contact for business owners meant helping to manage their deposit accounts, lines of credit, commercial property lending, equipment leasing, as well as investment needs such as SEP IRAs,  and 401k plans for their employees, along with all personal banking needs too. The link between all these careers she loved the most was building relationships with clients and making them feel valued. When she found speech pathology, she knew she found her home. A career where she could build a myriad of skills and a variety of settings to choose from. After experiencing acute care, SNFs, private practice and the school system, she finally decided to follow her heart and take the leap into private practice and being a business owner once again. We get into all the things! You'll hear us talk about: -Untraditional SLP path-Sets boundaries in the working environment while maintaining good relationships -Applying her non SLP skills to her SLP job-Why SLP is her favorite careerHere's where to find Marie:Instagram: speech.culture.positivityMarie's Book:My Speech Sounds: Coloring Book, A Therapeutic Companionhttps://www.amazon.com/My-Speech-Sounds-Therapeutic-Companion/dp/B09M4QV4PW/ref=sr_1_1?crid=7QL3CKY4ESW6&keywords=my+speech+sounds&qid=1643610775&sprefix=my+speech+sounds%2Caps%2C75&sr=8-1#nav-topFind and support Danni below for more contents:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/speechgoods/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyCX...Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...Enroll in the Start Your Private Practice Program with this link and get 50% off a 1:1 with Danni!https://www.startyourprivatepractice.com/jv?affiliate=danni21 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Happy New Year! Attack on Americans: Anti-racist insanity, Censorship, J6 drama, Virus hype! Just a few calls today!  The Hake Report, Monday, January 3, 2022: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! // Find JLP's show via https://jesseleepeterson.com/show // Pretty Republican female judge resigns after calling alleged burglar the N-word! // "Drunk Racist Man" knocked out by black dude at the Hilton after his girlfriend assaulted the "brother"! // JUST A FEW CALLS, THANK YOU! // Hake rants at-length about • Censorship: Marjorie Greene getting banned on Twitter for China Virus "misinformation" • Virus hype: 5 day quarantine instead of 10: libs unhappy • J6 drama: Nancy Pelosi plans events including moment of silence over "insurrection" 1-year anniversary at the Capitol //  ANNOUNCEMENTS: Catch Hake's recent and upcoming interviews/debates! More TBA: https://thehakereport.com/appearances  MUSIC: Sufjan Stevens - "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" and "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" - from 2003 EP compilation Hark! Songs for Christmas! // VYEN - "No Talk" - from YouTube Audio Library (selected by Chris) //  CALLERS Rick from Maine wishes a happy new year!  Greg from Delaware talks about failed socialism even before the first Thanksgiving!  Bob from Chicago, IL talks about the "oneness" apparently false doctrine.  Also check out Hake News from today.  TIME STAMPS 0:00:00 Mon, Jan 3, 2022 0:01:39 Hey, guys! 0:03:40 Judge resigns over n-word 0:14:31 RICK, MAINE 0:20:01 Super Chats / Hake's debates! 0:35:19 GREG, DELAWARE 0:42:15 More Supers: Socialists 0:47:41 Hotel fight! "Racism!" 0:55:31 Yet more Supers: Netanyahu? 1:00:13 "Hark the Herald…" "O Come Emmanuel" 1:02:06 Reading chat: JLPtalk.com, Run 1:05:24 BOB, CHICAGO: "ONENESS" 1:09:56 MTG banned! 1:23:38 Virus hype 1:32:01 J6 drama 1:46:15 Supers: LGBTQ, J6 truth 1:54:32 5G vs FAA 1:59:32 "No Talk" - VYEN HAKE LINKS VIDEO ARCHIVE: YouTube | Facebook | Twitter | COMING: Odysee  AUDIO PODCAST: Apple | Spotify | Podcast Addict | Castbox | TuneIn | Stitcher | Google | iHeart | Amazon | PodBean  LIVE VIDEO: Odysee | Facebook | Twitter | DLive | YouTube* | Twitch* | NOT Trovo*  SUPER CHAT: Streamlabs | Odysee | SUPPORT: SubscribeStar | Patreon | Teespring  Call in! 888-775-3773, live Monday through Friday 9 AM - 11 AM PT (Los Angeles) https://thehakereport.com/show  Also see Hake News from JLP's show today.  *NOTE: YouTube, Twitch, and Trovo have all censored James's content on their platforms over fake "Community Guidelines" violations. (Trovo permanently blocked The Hake Report.)  BLOG POST: https://www.thehakereport.com/blog/2022/1/3/010322-mon-american-speech-under-attack-virus-hype-j6-drama 

Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) are experts in language, by definition - but they may be an untapped source of professional learning for colleagues, as well as a support for developing readers and writers. What role can SLPs play in supporting literacy development in our schools? SST8's Tracy Mail recently attended a conference called Reading, Writing and the SLP: Preschool to High School, sponsored by the American Speech and Hearing Association, and she talks with our own Kim Nagy about what she learned - and how buildings and districts can put this learning to use. Co-Hosts: Tracy Mail, SST8 Educational Consultant and Kim Nagy, SST8 Urban Literacy Specialist Additional Resources Register now for ASHA's 2022 Reading, Writing and the SLP: Preschool to High School conference - Feb 2-14, 2022

About the Hearing Matters PodcastThe Hearing Matters Podcast discusses hearing technology (more commonly known as hearing aids), best practices, and a growing national epidemic - Hearing Loss. The show is hosted by father and son - Blaise Delfino, M.S., HIS and Dr. Gregory Delfino, CCC-A. Blaise Delfino and Dr. Gregory Delfino treat patients with hearing loss at Audiology Services, located in Bethlehem, Nazareth, and East Stroudsburg, PA. What are Best Practices?Dr. Beck explains that best practices are not set by individuals in the hearing healthcare profession. They are determined and codified by a group of national organizations. The International Hearing Society, the American Academy of Audiology, and the American Speech and Language Hearing Association assemble groups of experts, who come together and decide what practitioners need to do for their patients. They use outcomes-based research to make their determinations.Best practices include, but are not limited to: air and bone conduction, word recognition, speech reception thresholds, otoacoustic missions, ipsi and contralateral reflexes, tympanometry, speech in noise testing, and communication and listening assessments.Why are Best Practices Important?Best practices follow the primary thought used by physicians: diagnose first, treat second. A physician will not prescribe antibiotics simply because a person has a cold. The cold could be caused by a virus, and antibiotics would not help. As with medical care, hearing healthcare is not one size fits all. Research has shown that people who go to practitioners who use best practices do much better than those who do not. Audiology Service strictly adheres to best practices, and only one percent of patients return because they are unhappy with their hearing instruments.Real Ear MeasurementA procedure known as real ear verifies that the fitting the practitioner does is meeting the standards and is giving the patient the best possible hearing experience and meeting his/her goals. About 50 percent of hearing healthcare practitioners use real ear, but only about one in five use it on every patient. To do real ear the practitioner inserts an incredibly small microphone into the ear canal within five millimeters of the ear drum. A measurement is taken to determine how the patient's ear canal responds to sound. The measurement is taken again with the hearing aid in the patient's ear. The practitioner measures to determine if the hearing aid is producing the sound curve that is correct. If not, the patient may hear loud noises too loudly and soft noises not loud enough. The practitioner wants to get the most power for the quietest sounds and not increase the power when a sound is normally loud to the patient. If a hearing aid is not adjusted properly with real ear, the patient may suffer damage to his/her auditory system.Discussions with the PatientDr. Beck explains that having a discussion with the patient is far better than giving him/her a questionnaire to fill out. It helps the patient feel secure with the practitioner's expertise and gives the practitioner the chance to fully understand what the patient is experiencing and how best to fix the problem(s).Audiology Services Follows Best PracticesDr. Gregory Delfino reports that the clinicians at Audiology Services treat every patient as if they were family. They collect as much information from the patients as possible, and focus not only on their expectations, but what they've experienced in the past. When a patient leaves Audiology Services with their new hearing technology, he/she knows the practitioners care, and that they received the best possible solution to their problem.    

Horror fans rejoice, because this week we're talking about The Witch! Join us to learn more about what you had to do to get expelled from Puritan communities, ritual uses of baby blood, apples, the Song of Songs, and more!  Content warning: Infanticide Sources: Film Background: Stephen Saito, "Persistence of Vision: Inside the Making of the Witch, a Horror Classic for the Ages," MovieMaker, available at https://www.moviemaker.com/persistence-of-vision-the-witch-robert-eggers/ Kevin Fallon, "The Witch: The Making of the Year's Scariest Movie," Daily Beast, available at https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-witch-the-making-of-the-years-scariest-movie Simon Abrams, "The Witch," Rogerebert.com, available at https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-witch-2016 Song of Songs: NIV Study Bible William Phipps, "The Plight of the Song of Songs," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 42, 1 (1974) Belden C. Lane, "Two Schools of Desire: Nature and Marriage in Seventeenth-Century Puritanism," Church History 69, 2 (2000) Julie Sievers, "Refiguring the Song of Songs: John Cotton's 1655 Sermon and the Antinomian Controversy," New England Quarterly 76, 1 (2003) Expulsion from Puritan Communities: Transcript of the Trial of Anne Hutchinson, 1637: http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/WebPub/history/mckayunderstanding1e/0312668872/Primary_Documents/US_History/Transcript%20of%20the%20Trial%20of%20Anne%20Hutchinson.pdf Nan Goodman, "Banishment, Jurisdiction, and Identity in Seventeenth-Century New England: The Case of Roger Williams," Early American Studies 7, 1 (2009) Ben Barker-Benfield, "Anne Hutchinson and the Puritan Attitude Toward Women," Feminist Studies 1, 2 (1972) James F. Cooper Jr. "Anne Hutchinson and the 'Lay Rebellion' Against Clergy," New England Quarterly 61, 3 (1988) Richard J. Ross, "The Career of Puritan Jurisprudence," Law and History Review 26, 2 (2008) Witchcraft and Baby Blood: Lyndal Roper, Witch Craze Lindemann, Anti-Semitism Before the Holocaust Bucholz and Key, Early Modern England David D. Hall, Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England: A Documentary History 1638-1693, second edition (Duke University Press, 1999). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv11hph70.6 Lyndal Roper, "'Evil Imaginings and Fantasies': Child-Witches and the End of the Witch Craze," Past & Present 167 (May 2000): 107-139. https://www.jstor.org/stable/651255 Robert Blair St. George (ed.), Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America (Cornell University Press, 2000). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv1fxmmf.11 Deborah Kelly Kloepfer, "Cotton Mather's "Dora": The Case History of Mercy Short," Early American Literature 44:1 (2009): 3-38. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27750112 Aviva Briefel, "Devil in the Details: The Uncanny History of The Witch (2015)," Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal 49:1 (Summer 2019). Mary Beth Norton, "Witchcraft in the Anglo-American Colonies," OAH Magazine of History 17:4 (July 2003): 5-10. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25163614 Apples: "9 Things You Didn't Know About New England's Favorite Autumn Fruit," NPR (19 September 2014). https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2014/09/18/apples-boston Rowan Jacobsen, "Apples: A New England History," Harvard Museum of Natural History, YouTube (16 January 2019). https://youtu.be/9C4yTA_hUmE https://www.beaconhillhousehistories.org/blog/blacksstone David Shulman, "Apples in America," American Speech 29:1 (1954): 77-79. https://www.jstor.org/stable/453602 https://www.newportthisweek.com/articles/a-century-of-bountiful-fruit/

Valerie Fridland shares insights regarding the importance of understanding how we talk and what it communicates. Dr. Fridland is Professor of linguistics at the University of Nevada, Reno. An expert on the relationship between language and society, she is co-author of the book Sociophonetics and writes for various journals such as Nature and American Speech. Her language blog is featured on Psychology Today, and her lecture series, Language and Society, appears for The Great Courses. She is working on her first book for a popular audience, coming out with Viking/Penguin. “. . . you end up with drastic differences in the speech of older speakers and the speech of younger speakers. This is fine as long as older speakers only talk to older speakers and younger speakers, younger speakers. But that's, of course, not what happens, especially in workplaces. And so, the trick is to understand that language change isn't bad and, as a younger speaker, that there are different norms for use of language in a workplace environment that might be more formal and in a social environment that might be less formal.” Whether you're a seasoned designer or a total novice, with Visme, you can create engaging, dynamic branded content that makes people ask, “How did you do that?!” Visit https://tinyurl.com/seizevisme to explore. If you are a small business owner or salesperson who struggles with getting the sales results you are looking for, get your copy of Succeed Without Selling today. If you haven't seen all Audible.com has to offer, you don't know what you're missing. Sign up for a free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Libby is joined by private Executive Speech Coach, Laura Bresee. When your job requires frequent public speaking with little or no time to prepare, your vocal confidence and professional credibility are at stake.  Lack of preparation and practice delivering your subject matter will undoubtedly result in visible symptoms of speech anxiety.  Laura is passionate about coaching Voice Mechanics strategies to busy professionals to ensure their spoken communication remains effective when speaking under pressure.    Libby and Laura discuss:  Speech analysis Understanding that every speech is different and how to prepare for different situations The performance aspect of public speaking The importance of vocal warm-ups Speech anxiety and how to combat it Tips for finding confidence when it comes to speaking   Laura is the Principal Owner of Memphis Speech Solutions and is a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist certified by the American Speech and Hearing Association.  She approaches voice coaching with a holistic perspective using mind-body techniques from internationally acclaimed Heather Lyle Vocal Yoga and Fitzmaurice Voicework methods.    Connect with Laura: https://memphisspeech.com/ www.linkedin.com/pub/laura-bresee/ https://www.instagram.com/laurabresee_slp/ https://www.facebook.com/memphisspeechsolutions https://twitter.com/memphisspeech

[S] In the past decade or so, a new term has been coined. I’m talking about the word “adulting”. The linguistics journal American Speech has offered up these definitions for this word: 1. to behave in an adult manner; engage in activities associated with adulthood 2. to make someone behave like an adult; turn someone… Continue reading 1 Thessalonians 4 Commentary Verses 9-12

Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated after giving one of the greatest speeches of his career, "I've Been to the Mountaintop". In this speech he prophetically predicted an early demise. At the same time of Martin Luther King Jr's assassination, Robert Francis Kennedy, the younger brother of the late President John F. Kennedy was giving a speech of his own in Muncie, Indiana relating to his proposed 1968 Presidential run. After arriving in his final destination for the day, Indianapolis, Indiana RFK learned of MLK's death. Arriving in the heart of Indianapolis's ghetto he spoke from his heart and gave one of the most genuine and greatest speeches in American history.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/abriefhistory?fan_landing=true)

Our 45th President had his audience and tens of millions of others of us at “Hello” when he memorably addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference yesterday. Donald Trump asked, “Do you miss me yet?” and a resounding affirmative answer rang out across the land – and became even more heartfelt in the course of the ninety minutes that followed. Partly that was because Mr. Trump powerfully recalled the accomplishments of his time in the presidency and contrasted them with the immense damage his successor has already done to our national security, economic strength, relations with allies and adversaries and public health. The former President also laid out his vision for restoring an America in which elections are once again free and fair, our borders secure, our economy vibrant, our enemies deterred and our God-given, constitutionally guaranteed freedoms intact. Let’s make it so. This is Frank Gaffney.

Dr. Nan Bernstein Ratner joins Peter Reitzes to discuss what is new and exciting in stuttering and about updates to A Handbook of Stuttering, which is soon entering is 7th edition. Dr. Bernstein Ratner is asked about updates she and Dr. Shelly Brundage have made to the handbook in stuttering treatment, predictors of recovery, brain imaging research, genetics, evidence based practice, and so much more. Nan and Peter also discuss the fluencybank, Lidcombe's impact on the field, and assessment challenges. Dr. Nan Bernstein Ratner is a Professor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park and a Fellow and Honors recipient of the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association (ASHA). Dr. Bernstein Ratner is co-author of the seminal publication, A Handbook on Stuttering, which will soon be published in its 7th edition. Nan has co-authored A Handbook on Stuttering with the late Oliver Bloodstein and with new co-author Shelly Brundage.

Brain fog. Trouble concentrating. Difficulty planning and organizing.  Trouble with problem solving. Memory issues. Word finding challenges.  These are just a few of the symptoms after a brain injury.   We have therapy to help us get back to walking and doing our daily activities but who rehabs our thinking and how our brains work after an injury??  In today's episode we delve deep into the world of Speech Language Pathology (SLP) with therapist Emily Overbaugh of Thrive Speech Pathology.  She teaches us the instrumental role speech pathologists have in treating the “invisible” parts of our injuries. Join us as we talk about all things thinking-related and how we can recover this crucial part of our brains!!   In this episode we cover: When in your course of injury you start speech therapy What speech therapy addresses How you know you need speech therapy.  Below are a few symptoms SLP helps with: Fogginess and cognitive fatigue Memory issues Difficulty with attention Word finding issues and trouble conversing Executive function difficulty (ability to plan, organize, and set goals) Cognition, communication, or swallowing issues Problem solving difficulties Tasks taking longer than usual Getting a cognitive baseline The relationship between attention and memory The role of speech pathologists Strategies: Goal, plan, do, review Reduce environmental distractions  Plan your time  Take breaks and rest Evaluate your performance and how it could have gone better Return to work strategies Technology that will help you (hint: use your smartphone) Advice for caregivers of brain injured people: it's a family injury! Recognizing brain fatigue and what to do about it Understanding your own boundaries: learning how you think and acting on this Coming to terms with your “new normal” Final thoughts:  self advocacy find providers you really connect with dealing with the “shoulds,” “I should be able to do this,” “people say I'm fine, so shouldn't I be?”--trust your instincts rest/activity balance--strike a healthy balance Links resources from this episode:  AnyList: https://www.anylist.com/ (https://www.anylist.com/) Todoist: https://todoist.com/?gclid=CjwKCAiAqJn9BRB0EiwAJ1SztT67m-46bmUc4tq17wxyqY3qDNCbLSrT8xLxoi-4npSKQFUVsw4HjxoCuNIQAvD_BwE (https://todoist.com) Google calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/about/ (https://www.google.com/calendar) American Speech and Hearing Website for a list of providers and their specialities in your area: https://www.asha.org/ (https://www.asha.org/) To follow Emily Overbaugh: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thrivespeechpath/ (https://www.instagram.com/thrivespeechpath/) Website: https://www.thrivespeechpathology.com/ (https://www.thrivespeechpathology.com/) Quotes from the show: Every patient is so different, therapy is individualized based on symptoms. The role of a speech pathologist is to delve into the underlying difficulty that you have on a daily basis.   That patient knows themself the best.  They know if they don't quite feel like themselves.  If you feel this way and haven't met with a speech therapist yet, you should consider it.   Speech therapy is an umbrella term...Speech therapy is thinking therapy...They teach thinking skills. Think about things you want to do with more forethought than you did before. Learn from your experiences and adjust as needed.    Be gentle with yourself.  This [injury] is not your fault.  It happened to you. You are your own best advocate. You can get to the same goal that you had before.  It just may be a different path to get there.  Meet yourself where you are at.   It's ok to leave a provider and seek someone you click with better.   HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dug this episode head on over to Apple Podcasts and...

Guest Bio: Dr. Maguire is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (DFAPA). Dr. Maguire is listed in the “Best Doctors in America” and in the past as “Orange County Physician of Excellence” as recognized by his peers. He also serves as the Chair for the National Stuttering Association and in the past, as Vice Chair of the International Stuttering Association. He has received numerous teaching awards at both UC Riverside and UC Irvine. His research in areas such as stuttering, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and Alzheimer's dementia has appeared in various publications, including The Lancet Neurology, NeuroReport, Comprehensive Psychiatry, Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, American Journal of Psychiatry and the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. He served as an investigator on the National Institute of Mental Health CATIE trial for schizophrenia. Dr. Maguire has presented his research at various conferences and symposia, including the American Psychiatric Association, US Psychiatric Congress, the American Speech and Hearing Association, Collegium Internationale Neuropsychopharmacologicum, and The American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. Resources and Links: Gerald Maguire UCR Health StutterTalk Podcast  Host Bio: Uri Schneider, M.A. CCC -SLP passionately explores and develops practical ways for us to create our own success story. Delivering personalized experiences of communication care informed by leading professionals and influencers, Uri is re-imagining the next-level of speech-language therapy for people to benefit in real life. Uri Schneider, M.A. CCC -SLP is co-founder and leader at Schneider Speech Pathology and faculty at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine. For more, visit www.schneiderspeech.com

Lori Caplan-Colon is one of the nation’s leading speech language pathologists, specializing in pediatric feeding disorders with American Speech and Hearing Association certification, over 18 years of clinical experience, and an extensive background in areas of oral motor and feeding dysfunction. She is the founder of Montclair Speech Therapy, a family friendly practice that provides services for infants, children, adults and seniors. MST’s mission is to provide inclusive, research-based therapies that serve unique needs of individuals with creativity, support, applied learning, and skill through therapy. Join us on Healthy Habits September 2nd at 1pmET/10amPT and then in archive. Reach out to Lori at MontclairSpeechTherapy.com and on Facebook and Instagram. Connect with #WordofMom on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Email us at info.wordofmomradio@gmail.com. Thanks to our sponsors Safety Bags, StadiumBags.com, NoSuchThingasaBully.com and SmithSistersBluegrass.com for our theme song, She is You. #WordofMomRadio ~ Sharing the wisdom of women in business and in life.

Today’s show is all about Getting Kids to Listen and Talk from a an expert who knows best - a speech pathologist by the name of Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University and is now a Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at California State University, Sacramento. Dr. Roseberry-McKibbin is also currently a part-time itinerant speech pathologist in the San Juan Unified School District where she provides direct services to students from preschool through high school. Dr. Roseberry-McKibbin's primary research interests are in the areas of assessment and treatment of culturally and linguistically diverse students with communication disorders as well as service delivery to students from low-income backgrounds. She has over 70 publications, including 16 books, and has made over 370 presentations at the local, state, national, and international levels. She is a Fellow of (American Speech and Hearing Association), and winner of their Certificate of Recognition for Special Contributions in Multicultural Affairs. She received the national presidential Daily Point of Light Award for her volunteer work in building literacy skills of children in poverty. Celeste is such a rich resource of information. In this interview, she mentions her 3 steps on getting young kids to listen, how she gets teenagers to listen, the importance of reading in speech and language development, where parents can get information about typical language development, why anger does not work and tips on how to develop young kid’s communication skills. At the very end of the show, she also talks briefly about her experience living in Manila,Philipines and leaves us with an inspiring personal story about her son and how they were able to work through his learning difficulties. Celeste’s Recommended Resources https://www.asha.org/ https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Carol-S-Dweck/dp/0345472322 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451663889/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 https://www.amazon.com/Boundaries-When-Take-Control-Your/dp/0310247454 https://paultough.com/helping/ https://www.5lovelanguages.com/book/the-5-love-languages-of-children/ https://www.amazon.com/Setting-Limits-Strong-Willed-Revised-Expanded/dp/0770436595

Hello Sound Advice: Hearing Friendly Business listeners.  It’s Teresa.Script written by Teresa Barnes, RN founder of HearCommunication and podcast host of Sound Advice: A Hearing Friendly Business Podcast, plus author of Sound Advice: Tune Into Listening on Amazon.Find Teresa on the following links and reach out to contact@hearc.com:https://hearcommunication.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/hearteresabarnesrn/https://www.facebook.com/hearcommunication/https://www.instagram.com/teresabarnesrn/https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Advice-Tune-into-Listening/dp/1982209577https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ9TLLKAu7ZxP8lt21f0KswToday, we are going to go a little off the topic of business and focus instead on our younger future generation - the childrenHappy Father’s Day and Mother’s Day and for those of you who may not have heard that broad  cases were we honored the Mother of Pediatric Audiology - Marion Downs it’s on Episode 16. Yes, this is a new podcast. So, if you have any guest you’d like to hear on it or topics then reach out to contact@hearc.com.  That is the letter C. As we with hearing loss use our eyes to hear withThis is an excerpt for Healthy Hearing, which is a great source for information on hearing loss and is run as a non-profit.“The invention of the telephone combined with the practical application of electricity in the 19th century had a tremendous impact effect on the development of hearing aids and other assistive hearing devices. People with hearing loss quickly realized they could hear a conversation better through the telephone receiver held up to their ear than they could in person. However, Thomas Edison, who experienced hearing loss firsthand, saw room for improvement. In 1870 he invented a carbon transmitter for the telephone which amplified the electrical signal and increased the decibel level by about 15 decibels (dB). Although an amplification of about 30 dB is usually necessary to allow those with hearing loss to hear better, the invention of the carbon transmitter for the telephone paved the way for the technology that would eventually be used for carbon hearing aids”So, let’s give it up for Thomas Edison, The Father of Hearing Aids, and a person with hearing loss that saw a need and started the ball rolling for improvements to make the world a better place for those with hearing loss. For you Dad’s out there that have children with hearing loss. Here is a hero for your child to look up to. Mr. Edison when on to invent 16 other inventions other than his claim to fame - electricity. He took a disability and looked to see how he could improve the world. It’s you dad’s, mom’s and the village that raises a child to help  keep the self-esteem up for the child who already has hearing loss, because they do see the world  differently than child with normal hearingJust so the world will stay somewhat balanced let’s take a look at some of the diseases that cause childhood hearing loss: Test sound with DecibelXDo a free hearing aid test on:  MDHearingAid.com/on-line-hearing-test.Just like COVID, hearing loss for people who have never dealt with it is an uncharted territory and not all pediatricians all well versed in this field of medicine. We have Google these days. So there is nothing wrong with googling what your baby or child has then questioning the physicians judgement if your not quite sure they have it rightOtitis Media is inflammation of the middle ear. The middle ear is like the micro-chip of a computer and the balance center. So, it’s extremely important to reduce inflammation and get to the cause as soon as possible. Most children get at least one case of it before 3 1/2 years old. Sometimes there is infected odorous secretions and sometimes nothing. But if you child has these symptoms you need to take a look at this ASAP, because a day missed by not learning their language and speech can adverse affect your child’s learning for the rest of their livesHere are the symptoms listed in the American Speech and Hearing Association articleInattentivenessWanting the TV or other media louder than normalListlessness ( that an inattentiveness is like being zoned out in the adult world. Please get to your doctor ASAP and if you go to an ER then point to Google as your source for concern that will bring your pediatrician to you if you cannot get into the office.) Unexplained irritability Pulling or scratching at the ears  Some times its weeks or days before the parents decide to act. Many because hearing has not been addressed to the public at  large.  However, it's time that we focus on a body part that is the gateway to both physical and mental health that can have an affect on your child’s futureAcquired hearing loss is a hearing loss which appears after birth, at any time in one's life, perhaps as a result of a disease, a condition, or an injury. The following are examples of conditions that can cause acquired hearing loss in children are:Ear infections (otitis media) (link to specific section above)Ototoxic (damaging to the auditory system) drugs There are over 200 ototoxic medications. Listed in the physicians desk reference is Zithromax which is the 5 day antibody that helps fight infection. So, if a doctor is prescribing a medication then google it right in front of them or ask them if it is ototoxic. Oto is the latin word for ear and toxic is toxic. MeningitisMeasles (this is a common childhood disease, ask your doctor if there is anything you can do as a parent to prevent ear damage? EncephalitisChicken poxInfluenzaMumps - just like measles ask your doctor if any there is any ear damaging treatments in treating mumps????Head injuryNoise exposure Yes remember to test the toys and keep the sound around 72 decibels which is recommended by the World Health Organization. Unfortunately, once the ear organ is wiped out then it does not currently rebuild itself like other parts of the body. One is given two sets of ears to help with your being able to function in the world at your highest level possible.It is not a sign of weakness warrior dad’s to get hearing aids or medical prosthetic devices for your child or for yourself. It’s a sign that one has enough confidence to acknowledge that they need this device and then wear it to assure a better place for yourself or your child in the world.Let’s make wearing hearing aids cool like prosthetic limbs have become for the Wounded Warrior Project or the Challenged Athletes Foundation. And little Momma’s speak up for your child as they are back in the school environment if they need a 2 or 3rd row seat as hearing loss is that invisible disability  that has not yet come to the forefront of the majorities thinking process.Thank for sharing this time with me, remember to subscribe. To make it a better world for future generations. Stay Safe, Keep Hearing for Connections, and Be Well.Virus can cause hearing loss, so put a safe mask on your child and of course have fun with it as we are all dealing with enough stress right now. Kids might not verbalize it but they feel the stress of the adults in their household or other environments. Stress makes the immune system weaker, so less likely to be able to fight diseases like COVID

Dr. Susan Tamasi is a pedagogist at Emory University. Spending the last decade and a half researching, authoring and teaching some of the brightest minds to communicate. The thing is, her approach to education and leaning is filled with a casual and comfortable tone. conventioNOT episodes are filled with interviews, but none quite like this.  Dr. Tamasi informs Mike and McD about the NBC Pronunciation Standards they learned as elementary students and dives deeper into the fundamentals of communication in the US. Shockingly enough, her drive as a linguist isn't to speak all of the languages... but to understand the people who do.  Show Transcription: 00:05 Hey everybody, welcome and thanks so much for joining us on today's episode of conventioNOT, I'm Ryan and I chat with Dr. Susan Tamasi, the program director of linguistics at Emory University.   00:16 What does that mean? That means Susan's studies the way people talk, specifically in the English language, she travels around the country around the world, listening, mostly listening,   00:31 but appreciating and understanding that the idea and the goal is communication.   00:39 We thought it was a pretty good time to share this message, and we can't think of a better person to communicate it.   00:48 I think Ryan and I have admittedly always been students so the way people interact with one another.   00:54 If that's the case, and Dr. Tamasi is definitely the Professor.   00:59 This conversation to me was one of the more fascinating ones we've had on the show, but I think you'll find it interesting, educational and thought provoking. It was heartfelt and pretty deep. Because I think we all need to take some more time to understand communication. If nothing else, just listen to one another. On that note, sit back relax. Check out this episode with Dr. Susan Tamasi.   01:32 We are recording.   01:34 Look at that. So, I guess, Mike, is it like 6am for you? You got coffee? I've got a beer. I do have my coffee. But no, it's noon. I mean, I've been up for a couple hours now. I mean, I'm doing pretty good. I'm well into my work day.   01:55 Our guests, Dr. Susan Tamasi was kind enough today to join us a little bit after work hours, I guess it's six o'clock eastern time, which is probably a little bit closer to what we're trying to record. Anyway, a little bit more casual interview.   02:09 But we're really glad to have you today. I'm excited to be here. Do you think you could take a second to introduce yourself? Sure. So I'm Susan Tamasi. My official title is professor of pedagogy and the director of the program and linguistics at Emory University, where I've been teaching for 17 years now.   02:33 Yeah, I live in Atlanta, Georgia. And I'm really excited to be here.   02:38 All right, right away. That word you used professor of. I've heard that. enunciate, oh, I'm gonna screw up a bunch of stuff today. So say that in normal people where it's like, what does that mean? teaching? It means teaching. That's all it means is what's pedagogy? God's here, go, gee, what's that word? What's the entomology of that word? entomology, the bugs of it.   03:12 One of my old roommates was an entomologist. So we had lots of jokes about me doing entomology around the house.   03:20 He also would bake with bugs, which always made things really, really interesting when they like, oh, a cookie. Oh, it has worms in it. Fantastic.   03:29 So pedagogy references,   03:33 not just teaching, but also the study about teaching and best practices and understanding, you know, different types of teaching and strategies and recognizing what's best for students and for those that are teaching them and the right materials. So I don't actually do research on teaching itself. But the position that I have is teaching focused as opposed to research focused. So yeah, that's, that's my title. How long have you been at Emory for 17 years? I just finished my 17th year. Congratulations. That's, that's quite a tenure. Does that include your time as a student? No. So that was a an additional for earlier on. So I went to Emory in the early 90s, fully dating myself now.   04:24 And then I left and I did a great little stint in the marketing, in marketing in the music industry, and realize that it sounded super cool. And I absolutely hated the work that I was doing. And I hated where I was, and I hated everything about it. So I went back to school for the thing that I started drawing Venn diagrams, and realize that I was really interested, like what drew me to music was youth subcultures and how communities interact with one another and   05:00 And I had been a Russian major at Emory. So I was, you know, also interested in language and how that comes across, and how it connects to community and society and identity. And so I started drawing all these Venn diagrams and realized linguistics was in the middle. So I went back to school for that. And six years after that started teaching at Emory, because one of my old professors needed somebody to come in and help with the program. And I just basically stayed until they started, kept signing my contract, so I wouldn't leave.   05:36 That sounds like such a simple approach.   05:40 What Yeah, sometimes they don't just show back up every year. I mean, clearly,   05:45 something pretty productive in your time.   05:49 I mean, you know, I just, I just kind of hang out until they finally said, Okay, I wore them down, I think, or, you know, I put in so much blood, sweat and tears that they finally said, All right, we get it, we get it. You can you can have this. Yeah. Where are you from that region. Like Originally, I know, you said you like when did your schooling there but like you grew up in that area. So I grew up in a suburb, Marietta east, Cobb, that's about 45 minutes ish north of Atlanta. So it didn't, I didn't go too far away from college. But it was far enough that my parents weren't going to show up. And then I left, I keep coming back to Georgia, I go away, I come back, I got away, come back. But it's it's home. So it's nice to be able to have a job that I love near my family, especially as my parents get older, it's been really nice to have that opportunity. Like, I feel like the time in full disclosure, Susan and I have known each other for a few years. But I feel like that time from what I understand around Atlanta that like, from the let's say, basically, from the time that the Olympics were announced that they were coming to Atlanta to the time with which you're talking about like you go to college, and you go through there, that it becomes kind of an urban epicenter. Was that part? I mean, certainly, that's part of your formation as a young person growing up in around the city that it is, but was that part of what dictated your career? Somehow? Um, I think it might have. So what dictated my career in terms of where I ended up, was the fact that I came from a family from New Jersey and was raised in the suburban south. And so the idea of how people sounded and what language that they used was something that was talked about a lot around my household, or you know, in terms of either making fun of people or just like, Oh, you know, the families just like dialect, right? Like, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah. So I mean, that's what I do. I actually, my, my focus now is looking at the attitudes and perceptions that people have about dialects in the United States. So from there, there's a direct correlation. But it was also that I grew up in a suburban environment, I came into the city a lot, I had lots of interactions with people from around the country.   08:15 You know, around the world a little bit. I mean, I was kind of somewhat isolated in that, you know, we had some international students and stuff, but it wasn't nearly what I'm around right now.   08:25 And but it was, it was that experience that you know, you should travel and that you should see people in places and meet different types of people. I think that was the setup. That allowed me to   08:39 kind of see positivity and identity and diversity and kind of explore that throughout my life, both professionally and personally.   08:51 Holy shit, I'm so fascinated what you do, like, I'm sorry, I'm gonna be um,   08:59 this is gonna be awkward, cuz I'm gonna throw some questions out there that may make me so really, I hate being ignorant. Obviously, I hope everyone hates being ignorant. But there are just some things that, you know, I don't want to sound ignorant with any of my questions, but you will not I do something that's really weird that most people have. I mean, people like what do you do for a living? I'm like, I'm a linguist, and everybody just goes,   09:22 I have no idea what that means. And that's fine. And I love talking about it. Also, stop me and ask questions if I skip over something because I talk about this all day, every day. And so some, you know, judging how much detail to go into,   09:40 you know, if it's too much jargon, but like, I just love that this is such a tangible topic, right? I mean, unless you've never left here, your little county lines, um, you've heard some folks say the same words in a different way. You know, and I don't. I love that you're able to trace that back to you know, like,   10:00 Young a young age you had that that? Whether it was an interest or just the ongoing kind of joke in the house, you know, alright, can I say this? Like,   10:11 your family's from New Jersey? So do people in New Jersey think their accent is the norm? And everyone else talks by me? Like, is that just the natural? So the So the answer to that is generally speaking people think that whatever they sound like or whatever people around them sounds like that that's exactly what everybody should be speaking. And in fact, we can we refer to this in some instances when people are pretty secure and confident about their own speech. We call it linguistic security. Michigan tends to have the most linguistically secure people,   10:54 people like,   10:55 Yeah.   10:59 Like, I don't have an accent, like, Yes, you do. Um, New York, New Jersey, and the South East are three areas in the United States that have pretty heavily stigmatized, dialects, ways of speaking, that are talked about pretty openly in the media. You know, growing up, I thought, Okay, well, I mean, I'm Southern, and I have some some parts of my speech that are Southern, but I don't sound like those people over there. Those are the real Southern people. So there's, there's definitely a stigma that's really well known. So it wasn't that, like my family in New Jersey necessarily thought that they had the best speech, but they didn't necessarily think it was that bad. And the people, my family in Georgia, same thing, or they're like, Oh, you know, there are people that are worse. And I understand the perceptions of that some people think it's bad. But you know, this is my people. This is like, yeah, I mean, that's mom's cooking, right?   12:02 That's what it tastes like cast, right. And so I guess it's, well, not only is it supported by media, in a lot of like sitcom media. But there's also like experiences from that perspective. So having lived and worked in the southeast, and then coming from Michigan, and it's funny, I want to come back to this because we were actually taught that we talk normal. I mean, Mike, I don't know if you remember this or not. But like, I remember being taught that the Midwest accent is the   12:30 neutral. Yeah, maybe not good or bad, but just not on any side. If you look at it as like elementary education, like part of elementary education, we taught that right? For us, there certainly is a component with which well, I guess that contributes to your statement, right, Susan? But like, you know, being so confident and an overcomer. And that, but there certainly is in the southeast or in the northeast? And this is kind of a question like, you really can diagnose where somebody is from, I think a little bit easier than you can, let's just say west of the Mississippi.   13:07 I don't want to be so bold as to say why is that right? Because that could I'm sure be a huge answer. But could you give us some indicators on like, how that ends up happening? Can we just include of those five cities? You mentioned earlier? Can we include Boston in the Boston is?   13:22 Like, yeah, no.   13:25 So So there, there are a couple of things to talk about. So the way that language works is language is always changing and transforming. And it always works to meet the needs of its speakers. And as one of the things that happens all the time is light. I mean, one of the there are very few universals about language. The Universal is that language always changes. And now what happens is language will always change at different times in different places, and among different groups of people. So why do people in England sound differently than people in the United States, because people picked up and they moved over and they planted here. And then these two sets of people change differently over time. And so now we have two different lenses and variables. Yes. And so as people come together and split apart, their language continues to change. And so the people that split might sound like them for a little while, but then they'll start to sound a little bit different. So every place in the United States has to some extent, it depends on how closely you want to look or where you want to divide the lines. Everywhere has its own accent everywhere has its own dialect.   14:35 And I mean, in my class, I draw lots of maps and have, you know, people moving across the country and saying that   14:45 what happened was on the East Coast of the United States, so the places that were settled by English speakers earliest these are the areas Boston New York, Charleston, New England, Savannah   15:00 Ron,   15:01 Richmond, these are all the places that had their language set before the American Revolution. It's changed over time, but like that was in place. Now what happened is as those people moved west, this is my little This is my, as people moved west, they all started to interact with one another. So on the West Coast 5060 years ago, everybody's kind of sounded a lot of like, compared to the people on the East Coast, which still had those pretty distinct differences. Now, what's happening is in the last 2030 years, we're watching as the West Coast is changing as well. Northern California sounds different from Southern California, the Pacific Northwest sounds different than fornia. And one of the most interesting thing that's, that's going on right now that we've been able to track for the last 50 years, is there's there's a shift in how people are speaking along the northern part of the US. And it's happening just in cities. It's happening in Detroit. It's happening in Milwaukee, it's happening in Buffalo in Minneapolis, St. Paul Chicago.   16:15 And so those areas that used to be considered just like the common standard American Speech, actually, people speak more differently. Now they're   16:26 versus the rest of the country than they ever did. So now that's an area where I can actually pick out somebody from Michigan a lot easier than I can pick out somebody from most places in the United States anymore. Man, I could speculate all over that. I wonder how much digital communication and therefore so like, if I communicate digitally all day, do I become more Nucleic in the way that my localized accents affect me? If that makes sense, right? I don't know. That's so   16:57 that's a cool subject, man. Yeah, sorry. But those are two sides. So people always say, Well, I mean, and this happened with radio, it happened with TV, it happened with the internet, oh, with x technology, people are gonna start sounding more like, what happens is that doesn't happen.   17:14 What it does happen is you understand more people, because you're used to hearing them, like a standard British dialect, we have no problem hearing now. Because we hear it all the time.   17:26 you're interacting with more people you're hearing more people than you would have never heard before. It's not necessarily changing your speech a whole lot. Because it's still only a small part of what's going on and you don't interact with the radio or TV, you kind of have to have that interaction for it to affect you.   17:44 So people would always say like, oh, the United States, everybody is going to start speaking the same. We're actually speaking differently from one another. But these types of communication systems does allow us to have influence from people that we wouldn't expect,   18:00 or that we wouldn't have had before. I just   18:05 there's no one to answer one of the earlier questions that you guys had, the reason you were taught that you had, like, the standard best way of speaking was when we decided to create a media standard when TV, TV and radio were happening 30s 40s 50s   18:26 they went to the Midwest, and wrote down what people sounded like and said this, and actually, you can still find that booklet. It's the NBC standard national broadcast on people from the Midwest. That's Yeah, it's not Midwest, people found that out. We're like, we're good at something. We're gonna make sure everyone knows it. Right. Like it was, it was democratically American, the West, the East Coast, nobody knew what was going on in the West Coast, the East Coast was to had too much. Yeah, a reminiscence of previous times. It makes sense. I have just so many, because like I admitted earlier, like, once you started getting into this, I just have so many, like, entertaining anecdotes over the years that are very specific to this topic. And but they're all they're all related to travel. Um, and like what you're saying earlier about, you know, the change in the language and you know, that it the further back the roots go, you know, the less altered it has been over time. And I didn't even think about like, West Coast. I mean, in the fact that you say now, there are starting to be, you know, like, pockets of very different language along the west coast. Like, that's just   19:42 that makes sense. You know what I mean, but it's just the 30 years from now, people from Oregon are gonna sound completely different than people from San Diego and like, to me a kid from Michigan, maybe not, I mean, I don't know that's probably an extreme but the idea that you can pick that up um,   20:00 That's such a unique like, you must.   20:04 I love when musicians talk about just noises. You know what I mean? Because it's like, What are you talking about? Man, there's no, there's no beat, like, that's a street car, you know, but you must just hear noise, human noise in a, in a in a very different way. I was gonna say beautiful, but there's probably so much going on.   20:24 It's all beautiful. I love it all. I recognize like, I notice a lot of it, I don't notice a lot of it because I don't want to work all the time. Or sometimes you just turn it off. I've been out at cocktail parties and somebody starts talking about something. I'm like, Oh, can I can you guys make me not like, I don't want to work right now? Do we have to talk about this? And they're like, Oh, yeah, you do this for a living? And then they start asking questions like, okay.   20:50 But I'm actually kind of really bad at telling where people are from based on their speech, because there is so much interaction at this point, unless, you know, something comes out that's very specific of like, Oh, I know that one individual word or pronunciation is rarely used outside of this particular community. So sure, you know, I do that. But you know, when I hear it, I'm like, ooh. And my husband is like, really, you're gonna pick up on that.   21:18 So this might be a little bit of a good pivot point. Right. And so, you know, as we talked, the show is about both. And since you mentioned your husband, one of the things that has always infatuated me about you guys, is that you are in constantly in a pursuit of education about people in a constant pursuit about education around the world, actually, no, that's a big part of the way that y'all invest your resources. They call us y'all, they're almost almost comes off the tongue as if I don't say dollar.   21:52 Ultimately, I know that   21:55 you invest your dollars, and your resources, more importantly, experienced this around the world. So talk to us a little bit about that, because not so much, you know, in the academic format. I'm fortunate enough to see some of the the Facebook post and some of the beautiful pictures that Jamie takes when you guys experienced this, but how does that help inform your travel around the world?   22:17 Um, I mean, you know, he and I have made a pact A while ago, I don't know, implicitly or not   22:25 that I think we made a pact. But I don't know if we actually did,   22:30 it was just a decision that was somehow made that we work too hard just to kind of hang around here that when we have time off. And that's really when I have time off because I have a very specific schedule, as a teacher, that whenever I have any time off, so   22:48 winter break, spring break, summer, that we go somewhere. And as we've gotten older and have had the means to do it, we go broader and broader and where we can go around the world.   23:01 I was actually supposed to be presenting at a conference in Hong Kong this week. So that didn't happen. And I've never, never done Asia. So I'm really looking forward to the webinars not gonna be the same as going to Hong Kong. Well, they, yeah, they said, they didn't even try to do it online. They're like, we're just gonna postpone it for a year. It's a conference that happens every other year. So they're just gonna postpone this time.   23:28 So it's just and it's funny, because I gotta backtrack for a split second. Whenever I tell people that I'm a linguist, the inevitable answers that anybody gets who is a linguist. There are two responses, one Oh, I better watch what I say. Which is kind of ironic, since I'm the one who studies language variation and dialects and all of that. And like, yeah, I'm the last person to judge anybody's grammar. But the what most linguists get as the response is, oh, how many languages do you speak? Ah, that's the same thing. But lol and that's just it like everybody's just because they also use the word term linguist as translator, which is a totally different thing.   24:12 And so when people say, how many languages do you speak, I'm like, one, I speak English. That's what I study. I even I don't even study all of English. I study American English.   24:22 And I study the history of English. So we travel so much, it's kind of funny, because we were like, Oh, you must, you know, know all these languages and go all these places and like, now, it was just kind of really nice to go someplace and not hear people speaking English for a while, and just absorbing observations. Like, I'm not paying attention to what people are talking about, like if people are talking about politics, or if they're talking about somebody's clothing or just like completely banal inane, whatever they're discussing, and not picking up on that making. It's it's   25:00 not pulling me into that, which can happen around here. And I don't try to be judgmental, but sometimes like, what are you guys talking about?   25:09 Because I do use drop a lot. But it just allows me to travel and just watch people and eat and drink and experience architecture in all of the beauty that's around and the amazing aspects of people,   25:28 just by kind of not knowing and giving myself the opportunity to be aware of things that I'm not always aware of. So that, for me is a key aspect of of travel and being able to, to do that. So Ryan, I'm not sure if that really kind of got to what you're asking, but it did, right. I know, because of some of our previous discussions that learning the language, I know you're not the person. And there are people like this who gain a benefit from deciding they're going to go somewhere. And then they use, there are a lot of modalities. Now I think you could teach yourself on language to be able to survive that. And so, you know, maybe five years ago when I learned that this was something that you all invested resources in, right, because affordability hopefully changes for all of us right over time. And that's what we want to so many people spend every waking hour working on. But the possibility of going somewhere with your kind of background. I mean, I think almost I don't like the word assume. But I think that a lot of times it would be assumed or typecast that that you somebody like you would be going there to know all of the language to immerse yourself in that. And so that to me, always struck me as one of the like magical parts about knowing you all as a couple you as a person, because it wasn't about that it is about the way that that informs how you like take in all of the art, you mentioned the architecture and you know the pieces of the creativity in the areas you go that draw you and so there's no shortage of that here in Atlanta. But it's not like it's just too much English speaking though, she needs to go somewhere non English speaking just fine. I love I love traveling around the US as well. It's just really nice. So as you said like it's it's seeing and experiencing a different culture language is definitely a part of that. But it's it's the bigger aspect that I'm that I'm interested in as well.   27:30 And like so we do we learn at least some phrases I can I know probably how to ask for a table for two in order a bottle of wine in a good dozen languages at this point. So you know, we get that down. Before we go places, both of us will have kind of some of the basics. And we've studied languages that allow us to at least get some of those   27:54 general interactions pretty pretty well. We can kind of work some things out. And I've never been to a place yet where I didn't know that alphabet. So that's helpful to like being able to read signs and plaques and things like that. If you went to Hong Kong, you would have known the alphabet now No.   28:14 So I have a year, too. But in Hong Kong, I mean English as an official language. So actually, I'm not really worried about.   28:24 But in Yeah, my job also was to learn when we rent a car, I have to learn all the traffic rules of that country. That's my job as we go replaces. So you know, we'll learn a lot and we have part of that. But we also recognize that we're getting this much of the culture and this much of the language.   28:41 And instead of going back to the same place over and over again, to get a deeper understanding of that, we've made a choice to keep trying other places. So I mean, we recognize that we're getting surface level discussions and observations with people.   29:00 But, you know, it also allows us to have a very much broader view of the world. So   29:08 man, I just leave what I think is a broader view of the world. I don't know if everybody love and I'm sorry, because you You didn't paint this picture. But I've gone ahead and painted it in my mind of Gee, like, just deciding based on language alone, like now, I don't know, mainly English speaking. Let's avoid that one. Like, we don't need that. We know what they're saying there. I mean, because that different forms of English New Zealand was awesome. I'm so excited.   29:38 That is what I was getting at in a very roundabout way, which isn't a strength of mine to be succinct and direct. But if you've been to Hawaii before, yes. Okay. Um, so, you know, Ryan and I grew up suburban Detroit. My wife and I moved to Toronto. We lived in Canada for eight years.   30:00 Where I was often asked like, Are you from the south, and I would often very entertaining conversations with people about how I said hockey and things like that. Then I moved to Hawaii, and   30:15 I had never really lived   30:17 in, in an area where there was a   30:22 what's the right term for a severe alteration of English? I mean, I know what they call it here. I will, I will go one further. It's not a severe alteration. It's such a severe alteration, it's an interaction with other languages. It's a totally different language, pigeon. It's like it is. So you have Hawaiian English, but you also have Hawaiian pidgin English, or a totally different language. And it is, to me, it's the thing of like, in like, because I'm the type of person like, I just love differences in people. Like, that's something ever since I was a little kid, you know, my parents would be like, Michael, you cannot walk up to strangers and ask them about their hair, you know, like I was just like, but I've never seen someone with hair like, so I moved out here. And I'm lucky enough to have met a variety of people, including quite a few fishermen. One of the things that I love and respect the most about a lot of the guys that I fish with, is the fact that they can turn it on and off. So they will literally, they will speak to me and clean No, because they have their nine to five jobs. They're not on the boat all the time, guys, with their nurses mechanics of variety thing. They speak to me in plain English. And then they turn 90 degrees and speak to the other guys on the boat. And the language I cannot I might pick up like a 10th I kind of get what they're talking about.   31:49 And I love it. I just sit back and there's times where they're like, Mike, Mike, and I'm like, What? Like, we're talking to you, man. I'm like, Whoa, you gotta slow it down, or use some directional pointed stuff like, and it's just the best ongoing joke. I mean, I I can guarantee half the time they don't know they've switched. It's generally it's just the way it Yeah, this is the way I talk to this person. And so this is how I say it. When I'm talking. I think.   32:18 I think it's such an incredible ability, like cuz I imagined my buddy at work as a nurse, you know, when he's, he's talking to the doctor who graduated from Washington or whatever. Um, but then he's got to turn around and talk to this patient. And like, a lot of the times the patients and there's communities here in Hawaii, where it's, that's all they speak at home is Pidgin, right? So I cannot communicate to that patient to the same ability that my buddy, can you know what I mean? Like, yeah, and usually wait quicker to like, the thing I love about pigeon is that like, that was three sentences, you just smashed into two words. And the person you're talking to knew exactly, I don't know what you're talking about. But that person knew. And Damn, you got right to the point real quickly. Yeah, no, it's it's an amazing language to listen to. And there's such a connection there. And there was Hawaii has such a history of them trying to smash it.   33:21 Like the educational system trying to push it out. And there was, you know, people being punished for speaking it. And there's a resurgence,   33:29 where more people are learning pigeon, and and,   33:34 you know, using it in different areas. So in night, and you've seen you've given a perfect example, right, why it's important to have   33:46 it one of the other things I study is health communication. So the idea of this, this, like health care provider and patient interaction, where it needs to be, not only when the patient doesn't understand the more standard or doesn't understand English, like doesn't understand why in English, that you have to go into Pidgin to be able to get the point across, but also in a situation where you're also trying to comfort somebody, being able to speak to them in the home language actually, can make things easier and calmer, as opposed to just not just whether or not somebody understands but are you really communicating in a positive way?   34:35 Do you ever wonder why Mike and I spend all these hours talking to people? Well, mostly it's because we're curious. Secondarily, it's because we'd like to share the stories of people as we learn how to become better journalists. In order to help us out we would love if you take a second and give us some feedback on your podcast channel. just pause the episode, go and write us a review. Give us as many stars as you want. We'll love to read it.   35:05 Is that a different?   35:08 Let me let me rephrase that. What is the learning approach to something like that when you are, let's just take the physician example. Right? Because you know, in a lot of times, unless you are from that place originally, you're coming back there to work in that area you a lot of times professionals and healthcare placed in places. How do you how do you bridge that gap? I mean, I know that's your area of study, what are some things that you could share with us that help the layman understand how that gap gets bridged?   35:40 Um, well, one of the things that happens is a medical school does everything in their power to train doctors how to think and speak like other people are not like other people, I'm sorry. Like, it's you now have to think like a doctor, you have to interact with one another doctor, like you are, you are no longer of the people, you are experts in this field, and you need to show that. So you have things like case presentations, where   36:14 studies have found that when they're testing interns and residents on whether or not they can present their their cases, I guess med students, when they if they can do a case presentation, it has more to do with Are you using the right language? And are you presenting it confidently, as opposed to are you actually correct.   36:33 So, so that's one aspect of it. So having crossing that divide can be anything from, I recognize that the way I'm speaking as a health care provider is not the same. And I need to change the way I speak when I'm interacting with patients.   36:53 You know, we talk when whenever anybody switched between two different languages, or two different dialects, or even different just modes of speaking, we talked about it as code switching. So it might be that you're using one set of vocabulary and grammar with, you know, the nurse or the other doctor, and then you turn to your patient, and you make sure that you're using language that that particular community, that particular person can understand. Of course,   37:25 that's hard to do. And you know what, you have to be willing to do that. And you have to be willing to be trained to do that. And depending where you practice and what you're doing, there can be a whole lot that is involved in it. And it might be that it nobody wants a doctor that comes to them and start speaking in a dialect that's not their own, right.   37:47 It's just like, Oh, I think I think you're gonna speak this way. So I'm gonna start speaking because that's just that awful. I'm so it's   37:57 sorry, was that that's a sitcom. I think about so many language train wrecks that happened with sitcoms on health care. I mean, yes. A lot. Do you remember the movie airplane? Course? Yeah. Excuse me, stewardess. I speak jive, you know? And yeah. Oh,   38:15 yeah. Okay, what is happening here? Um, you know, so things could go very wrong very quickly. But it's the idea of recognizing that that people communicate differently and being willing to talk differently, or at least, listen, seems seems like a real crucial theme today. Right? Just maybe the first step is recognition. Not Not knowing Yeah, the answers, but maybe just recognizing, you know, and maybe not trying to answer yourself and listen for a second and say about it.   38:50 On that note, though, I have another question.   38:54 All right, so I'm gonna be replaying that phrase code switching over and over, as it's just a really cool sounding term to NPR has an entire area called code switch, that's a set of podcasts? Well,   39:09 that's what I was gonna ask you and not i'm not presumptuously because I would imagine that the kind of neurological activity and behavior of people with varying linguistic abilities, and I think I'm trying to sound smart, but basically people that can bounce around from language to language or code switch very efficiently.   39:32 Can you talk at all about like the brain act, I'm not asking you to say those people are smarter than others, but is that like something that you've studied or kind of delved into at all? I haven't, there are lots of people who have um, and I mean, so the example of what you were you were you're giving on the boat of your friends talking to you and then talking. Oftentimes when people are switching between   39:56 two languages or two dialects, they don't really recommend   40:00 They do it. They just we, when we're speaking,   40:04 we go for what we think is going to be the best way to communicate.   40:08 And we tried to, there's a thing called linguistic accommodation where we, we want to speak, like the people that we're talking to even minorly. Because it shows us social connection as well. Yeah, yeah. So I mean, languages stored generally in the same place. And I'm not I don't know enough about what's going on in the brain with multiple languages. But you know, you can access it from kids, before they have any idea how to tie their shoes, they're able to switch between multiple languages perfectly without even thinking about it. And it's, it's actually better if you're really thinking about it, you know, you just automatically go back and forth.   40:55 And sometimes you have to make a decision, like if you're, if you're in a place where it's a bilingual place, but you know, that there are different attitudes associated with different ways of speaking. Do you approach somebody you don't know, and you start speaking the language that if both of you speak it, it might connect you as like the local language, but it all could come across as like, I don't think you know this well enough. So I'm going to talk to you.   41:25 You know, there's a lot morally right, yes, yes. So, I mean, there's a lot involved. Oftentimes, people switch between different languages, when they get very emotional. There's certain things that they will automatically say, in one language, or one dialect versus another. Gotcha.   41:46 I know, a couple Spanish, where it's quite well, my wife, the daughter of a Mexican woman, and they're not like, I love you. It's not No, no, no.   41:57 No, it's one of those abilities, though, that I think, you know, when you hear about someone,   42:05 and I'm thinking like Jason Bourne, but that's that's like a stupid example more like, you know, some traveling business person who isn't overly impressive, but can like hang in five different languages, to me that and that's like, maybe a fault of my own that is so exotic, and amazing to me, that I automatically placed that individual's intelligence at like, such. But I think that's because for me, there's nothing more important than being able to talk to other people. And like some prejudice of sorts, right, exactly. Like, I don't think that that that ability necessarily equates to like, that person might not be he might not know how to add, or she may know, you know, not have all that rain.   42:51 So that happens, like some people are just like, sometimes people get elected, you can imagine.   42:59 One reading is a very, very different skill.   43:04 Yeah, let's, let's let's get into that one in a second.   43:08 No, absolutely. So I there's a joke that says, What do you call somebody who speaks multiple languages? Somebody who's multilingual, what do you call somebody who only speaks one language? American? Yeah. Now no. reality. Right. So use you saying that, you know, somebody going around speaking five different languages is exotic for most of the world. That's just their daily basis, you have to speak most communities around the world speak at least two, usually three, and more languages for interacting, because you have small communities that have historically spoken languages. And as people move around, you speak with them. So that's, that's like multilingualism is actually the norm. We're weird and not speaking multiple languages normally, but it also Yeah, for us, it's, we have this idea as Americans that's like, Oh, well, you must be really smart to be able to speak multiple languages must be like a secret agent or something, you know.   44:10 And they're in and the idea of like, but you know, how do you speak five languages, but you can't read anything. Like for us there's a disconnect, but that's, that's a pretty normal, like, Girl. If you grew up in The Hague, you speak for four languages. Yeah. And like, you might not have graduated high school, but yeah, you speak four languages. Like that's just that's the and that was my experience in Toronto. Um, is, is you know, it's a it's a matter of need, right? I mean, man, a lot of people learn a whole new language just for a vacation. When you move there about 30 days in, you get tired asking for the same thing every day. Right? So you learn what the next thing is, and   44:51 it's a it's such a cool topic for me I could go on and on and on about this. I this is tied to this every day.   45:00 For the last 20 years,   45:04 and as a teacher, I pull more people into my world, I'm like, come with me, come talk to me about this, I can imagine that this is gonna be a multi part interview I talked   45:15 a little bit about, like, are asking the expert type discussions, you know, for our listeners in they've heard a couple of them now, Mike, you know, where we're taking a little bit different angle above and beyond just the interview components, but there's kind of, there's this like initiation thing that you have to go through, you have to be interviewed, before we get into the expert part. So I could do this. I know we're getting close to our hour here. But I really, if I could I want to ask one real final question. These from from my camp, which is   45:48 it's no secret to most people who are listening now that we have this time in what started in America with the world that is relative to race and brutality in, in what's going on, right. And so, this show is not about that. And, you know, we are an episodic show, meaning that we talk a lot about things that we hope could be published for years on end. And it's an autobiography, biography type of an interview that we're hoping to achieve today. But when you think about unity across the world, and you think about how language affects unity,   46:24 myopically here in the United States, relative to you know, the current exacerbation has to do with police brutality, and this ever burning, you know, very true   46:36 difference in races in the United States and difference in socio economic ways that that works out in your life, or how does language save us? Like, I don't want to make it so prophetic, but like, how, how does that help? Like how, how do we how do we, how do we become better partners to each other better tribes, as groups to other tribes to let language start to develop peace in this world?   47:04 I love this question. This was a phenomenal question.   47:08 And I do think language can save us. But I also switch it a little bit from not just language, but communication. So it's the idea of being willing to talk to people. And right now what's going on in the United States, being willing to listen, and not passively listen? actively, they call it 360 degree listening, where your brain isn't off thinking about some other stuff. And you're just kind of you're actually listening and processing and thinking through? What is this person telling me? What is this community telling me? What do I not understand? And how can I ask questions so I can understand.   48:02 So I think language can save us by giving us the ability to communicate, but really having the will to communicate and listen and process and think through and speak up. I know, I'm not as good as this as I should be. When you hear something when you hear other people say things that are untrue.   48:26 If not, false, are just on.   48:32 I don't even know the term at this point. Because words are hard.   48:37 Getting You know, when you hear something, it's not always just about correcting but having somebody like, okay, you said this, but what about if you actually think about it from the other person's perspective? Or, you know, what, if you're listening to somebody, I read something the other day that was talking about reactions to these stories that we've been hearing. And in particular, this was the issue that happened in New York City in the park, where   49:05 Amy Cooper called the police. And there was this blog post that I was reading that was talking about how all of these people were saying, Oh, well if it were me, I would be doing something else. If it were no, if I was there, I would have said something if and the blog focused on   49:28 the idea of stop making it about you stop making it about how you're experiencing it and how you feel about it. That's fine process that work with it. But stop and listen to what   49:44 the other people have or you know, all parties you know, the I can't Mr. Cooper, the guy who's I can't remember his first name. Now. That was the birdwatcher that had the police called on him. You know, look at it from his perspective and what was going on. Listen to him.   50:00 Listen to what he has to say. And listen to what he said in the video. So it's I think this is a long winded answer, and I apologize for that. But I think it's the idea of speaking up when you can, listening to one another, the idea of communication, regardless of what language that's in whatever dialect it's in, you know, find a way to understand   50:24 when we talk about people talking to folks with especially that speak stigmatized dialects, like African American English, we use this phrase   50:34 communicative burden, that sometimes as listeners, we just say, I don't understand what that person is saying. Or if it's somebody who hasn't done is non native speaker of English, I'm not going to understand what that person is saying. So I'm not going to listen, or whatever, they're not speaking in a way that I want to follow in that can be politically valid, as you know, in terms of politics, like you've used a term or you're coming from a perspective that I want, don't want. So I'm gonna stop and I'm putting the communicative burden on you to change how you speak. So it's better for me. And that's just not fair. So it's, it's taking that burden onto yourself.   51:18 I hate that you felt the need to apologize for that amazing answer. It's long winded out of need. There's there's no way to none of this is an easy, easy answer. And I, I could not even if I sat down and wrote it over and over again, have have expressed it better than you did. I mean, what I took from that actor is you don't need to speak the most important part of communication isn't what comes out of your mouth. So just shut up. And listen.   51:51 That's the that's the best place to start is just listening and, you know, compassion and greater effort on all of our parts. I that what that communicative burden, another amazing term? There's a version of it, if there's another word, or what was the other link was the other work? All right, yeah. Do   52:16 you guys have very   52:18 phrases?   52:20 But how tragic is that? And you know, what's messed up is like, embarrassingly?   52:26 Well, embarrassingly, I think we all need to just get a little bit better at this, you know, 2030 years ago, growing up in suburban Michigan, it was, it was a lot more acceptable to walk around with that burden. And be like, you know, you're not from here. I don't know why you're talking like that. But you're here, you should talk like us. Like that was, that was a normal attitude from where I'm from. I'm   52:54 like, just, like, just think about think about that shit. Like, I'm sorry to use such a dumb but   53:02 because you move to your 10 years before they did, you have the right to say how people should speak when they move here. And they're seeking the same things that your family was seeking when they came here, and it's just,   53:16 ah, I'm all sweaty.   53:20 Even, even if they are speaking English, the idea of like, well, you're speaking English differently than what I'm then how I'm used to hearing it. So I need I and I'm gonna shut that down. Because I can't understand you. There's, there's this really great study from a professor that I used to work with named Donald Rubin, where he had the same voice, recorded giving a lecture. And then he played it for a group of students. But he had two different pictures. And one was a white dude, I think it was a guy I can't remember, a white person and the other was somebody from East Asia or had features from the East Asia, I should say. And not it's the exact same voice. And the students were like, Oh, I didn't understand that one person I understood. The first one or I didn't understand to the extent that when they were actually questioned, like given up like a pop quiz on the on the lecture, they actually did worse. Because they're like, Nope, I'm not gonna know this person is bad. They just they close their ears do it. And   54:32 hey, thanks for taking time to listen to Mike and I Today, I wanted to talk to you just for one second about reviewing the podcast. It really, really helps us out and it places us higher on search engines, as well as the other podcast channels that publish our show. So if you listen to conventioNOTup, you dig what you hear. Take a second go out, give us five stars, give us a few kind words or just real words, whatever the hell you want to say. out there on the review channel of your podcast show.   55:08 I feel like those are the things that we should know more about as we figure out how to bounce out of this like outrage culture, however, whatever that means to you, because that in its own right is like this incendiary term, right? Like, everybody else is outraged, or I'm outraged or whatever. But ultimately, I feel like combining your first and your answer to the first question, when you say, you know, in summary, like, Listen, stupid.   55:32 The reality is that   55:36 it's what gets communicated. And if you don't pay enough attention to what's trying to be communicated, it's quite possible that you could inform yourself incorrectly. And here are the examples. You know, I mean, not everybody will be able to maybe identify with an example of a lecture in a classroom, but most people probably would, because that is such a distinct thing that I think that almost all of us can identify, you know, when humans are frustrated, at least in my experience, and this I mean, is by what I do, is we reach for a lifeline often, to justify our frustration, and if we can clean to that Lifeline in that Lifeline is incorrect. And it doesn't really save us, right, you know, it's sometimes it occludes us too early. And I wish more people could really approach life with such an open hearted, you know, a perspective, I think that probably requires being open to them when they're young. And when they come to mic, like, like you said, when you're when you're new to the place, so that so that those occlusions don't happen.   56:42 Another good example, to have that beyond the lecture. Example is   56:49 color customer service calls or tech calls. A lot of people have that they just keep hanging up until they get somebody that quote, unquote, speaks American,   57:00 like this person will not be able to help me. Right? Right. That's a real thing like to speak American, like, what a beautiful if we could just get a name and address of everyone who ever uttered that phrase.   57:19 positively, there's a really great   57:24 healthcare communication. Okay, and so we have overseas customer service. Those listeners who know the name of my company, maybe they could do this, I'm not going to link them together this way. But our best incoming customer service English is in the Philippines. Mm hmm. So would you like, like, that's where the phone calls come in. With such English as spot on. Compassion is great. There's very little hang, there's actually, you know, hang up that you could talk about probably from the customer service end, right. And so it's the Philippines. That changes actually, at least in my the past decade that I've been working internationally. Because, especially with healthcare, like you mentioned earlier, that accent is so important, right? However,   58:06 right, wrong, or in different call centers internationally make a heck of a lot less mistakes. A lot of people think it's just about the cost. But we shouldn't typecast that, it's that those international systems, as long as you know, we're able to train them with with the right accent, quote, unquote, right? They make less mistakes, and there's use of data to back it up. I would have never like, I would have just assumed it was 100% function of cost, which is I think,   58:36 is old school ignorant kind of   58:40 presumption. It really is, um,   58:44 oh, man, I'm really, really sharing my ignorance today.   58:49 That but you know, I, like I said, I'm down to be the dude in the crowd that raises his hand and he admits like, Hey, I'm here to be better. Um, I, that's a scary notion and in today's society, but if we all just kind of try a lot harder. That's the kind of unity I don't know. It's, I think it's a lighter question. But you know, I've we've found it sometimes delves into deep, deeper parts of our brains. Um, we asked us of a lot of our guests and I think I'm really really dying to hear   59:23 your response. Doctor, we   59:26 were curious, what do you think the 1516 year old Susie would would would think of what you're up to today where your passions are and kind of, or vice versa? If you if you would rather give some advice to that teenager, you can do that. But I want you to, I want you if you can bounce between now and then.   59:47 Um, I think I think 15 year old Suzy would be surprised, but really pleased with at least with like   1:00:00 The work that I'm doing and where I ended up in terms of a career, the the fact that, you know, me making a couple comments about my mom's accent, and the fact that my cousin's made fun of me for using y'all. It's like, wait, you turn that into a career? Good for you. You've written books on that topic. That's awesome.   1:00:25 You know, I, I think I would be proud of the work that I've been able to do to get people to think about things that they haven't thought about before and think about diversity in ways that   1:00:41 they overlook, oftentimes, I mean, we didn't throw around the word diversity so much when I was 15, and 16. But   1:00:50 But I think the I think that type of thing was in the back of my mind, at that point, I was interested at 16, I was starting to get interested in the idea of travel and other languages.   1:01:04 When I was I think I was 16, maybe 17, when I started studying Russian,   1:01:10 which is what I majored in, in college, still can't speak it, but that's what I meant.   1:01:16 So I think the fact that I would say, Oh, you went with that, but turned it into something different, I think I would be disappointed in the fact that I can't speak Russian fluently, or I can't speak Italian, which is what my family historically speaks, that I couldn't speak anything fluently. I think, I think I'd be like, really, you've had this long, you couldn't, you couldn't have worked with that.   1:01:38 But yeah, I but the idea of me being a teacher and a researcher, and an academic, would have shocked the crap out of me, because I, my parents didn't go to college.   1:01:51 I didn't know anybody who was a professor, I had no, there was no experience that would have made me think like, oh, teaching is the right role for you. And even when I entered a graduate program, I wasn't even thinking about that. I just wanted to learn some more. So I'd be really, really surprised to know that on a regular basis, you know, sometimes daily, I get up in front of 100 people and talk about stuff. And I am perfectly happy doing that. I love doing that, actually, what could the 16 year old version of you want more, you just said your career, I get a smile on your face has only gotten bigger the variety of subjects we've covered today, it's just a, you mentioned something there that I do have to touch upon, just that you forged this past yourself. Um, and that's, it's a common theme. A lot of our guests. I mean, it's called conventioNOTthat for a reason, um, but to me just say both of my parents are educators, you know, my, my dad has his PhD in education. My mom got her master's in the 80s. Um, but they don't, they're not engineers, they don't do what I do. Um, and so I really, I love that this was completely out of nowhere. And nobody you didn't have anybody to look up to and say, Yeah, that looks okay, I'll, I'll go down that path. So, to me, you get an extra applause for   1:03:18 you know, going out on this limb on your own and then making it awesome. Because you I mean, you use there's no way people meet you and wonder if you're happy and in your career and in your in your life, because you   1:03:31 and you're in the right spot.   1:03:33 You know, we get to spend a lot of like, personal time together. And sometimes wine comes out and all that kind of stuff and the nature of our lives. Yeah. Right. Sometimes the nature of our,   1:03:45 my wife, Anna, and   1:03:48 Susan's husband, Jamie, we were able to share some of our observances about where we're good at each other,   1:03:57 with each other, not at each other. But one of the things that is always so inspirational is about the way that that continually becomes kind of like part of our conversation. I always think when when we're in these groups of couples sharing about a line or whatever that might be, and I can't help but think that that's what dictates to like, being able to open up into conversations like this today, or really the way that you do, being able to influence young minds. You know, I mean, we didn't talk a lot about that today. Because, well, there was no reason we didn't talk about it. We're learning today. But I know that that's a big part of what makes you tick is to be able to have those relationships and to follow students getting into law school and making those you know, next steps to influence the world. So I hope that someday we could get you to come back and talk a little bit more about that.   1:04:48 In the meantime, if I want to get a hold of you, or if there's something that I there's this kind of two questions, one, how do I kind of you know, get a hold of you in the appropriate manner. But also, if I didn't want   1:05:00 Get a hold of you. But I want to learn about a career, whether that be in linguistics or as an educator, where would I go? And then I'll wrap us up however we do that, but this is this has really been one of our better interviews. I really appreciate this today. Thanks. I've had so much fun with this. Thank you so much. I'm so my full contact information is through the Emory University website, the linguistics program there and anybody can always reach out to me, send me an email is probably the best way to do it. And I'm happy to answer any questions that people have. There are a ton of resources out there about linguistics and about careers in linguistics. I like to point people to the linguistics Society of America, their website, especially folks that are starting school and thinking that they might be interested in studying linguistics, there's an entire area of wide major in linguistics, or what kind of fields can I work in? If I study linguistics? The short answer is everything. Like it applies everywhere, you can apply linguistics to every single career.   1:06:13 And so they have a lot of resources. There's also some really good books that are out there. There's one called the five minute linguist, and that I just started reading, and it's really, really short vignettes. And there's some videos that are out there that go along with it, of just like some of the key questions that people might have about language. So if anybody's just interested in like, really, really short ways of learning a little bit about language or the types of questions you can ask about language, it's a good book that I recommend. And   1:06:44 what about the ones you wrote? I mean, are those those worth recommending? Well, my textbook linguist language and linguistic diversity in the United States, 2015 by Rutledge   1:06:57 that we're working on the second edition, so that is available and it is online.   1:07:04 And it ends I have a new book called linguistic plants of belief, which talks about p southerners views about dialectal differences in the United States and about views about   1:07:20 man coming out. So that's coming out in October. It was supposed to come out this month, but it's been postponed. I was pulled on to this project with Paulina bounce and Jennifer Kramer some wonderful, amazingly bright women. But yeah, so linguistic planets of belief comes out in October. Okay, yeah, that that's why I'm excited for that October. That's my birthday month so anything going on in October it's gonna be great. It's gonna be well and right now more more to come upon this and I'm gonna be probably relatively certain that YouTube will meet face to face but Mike and I are talking about a South East trip in the month of September in which we will go throughout the southeast as Damn Yankees and experience the world. Everyone can hear us talk time. Yeah, yeah, Kara's   1:08:09 point.   1:08:11 Yeah, can I plug one more thing before we go just because of what our was talking about with what's happening in the us right now. We went to the North Carolina, North Carolina language and Life Project has just come out or not just come out last year came out with a documentary called talking black in America.   1:08:31 And you can look it up online talking black in America was talking Black america.com. But I can't remember. It is a beautiful hour long video documentary that interviews people and talks about what black languages in the United States and its history and its development in the social views that go along with listening and being a speaker of it. And for anybody that is thinking about   1:08:59 how to listen and how to communicate. It's a beautiful time to watch this video. Okay, thank you. I   1:09:07 will share that right away. Thank you. Yeah, we started by Well, well, it's really been a pleasure. I'm almost sad to hear it go to an end or at least better less listeners are but there will be more. I would love to have a Ask me anything about writing a textbook. I feel like that could be something that would be really really cool to be focused on. From from an expertise perspective. I'm good at telling people how not to write a textbook because exactly the process that I went through all the obstacles you trip down along the way right. I always thought that parenthesis tell the story anyways on the inside, right. So maybe maybe you could help set those bumpers on the outside. So just to close us down. If this is your first time listening to us if you found your way to us through Dr. Tamasi. We are conventioNOTnot and we promote ourselves through   1:10:00 Are interviewees and our guests and so on and so forth. So please take a second there are countless interviews out there that aren't similar to Susan's, but they are different. You will find many, many, many different types of careers, many, many different pursuits of happiness   1:10:17 with all of the diversity that we're talking about today, and different types of advice, and so on and so forth. So please take a second get out there, follow us on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter or LinkedIn or anywhere that you might go. We'd love to have you follow there. And we appreciate you listening today.   1:10:36 Thanks, doctor. Thank you guys. So much.

To learn more about Jennifer Gray MS, CCC-SLP you can visit her website (http://grayspeaktherapy.com/) or find her on Instagram @grayspeak.About Jennifer Gray MS, CCC-SLPJennifer Gray MS, CCC-SLP earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in speech-language pathology from Northern Arizona University in 2001 and went on to complete two years of post-graduate study at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette focusing on fluency disorders and literacy. She has taught at the undergraduate and graduate level in the area of speech and fluency and has written articles for both specialties.She has specific training in feeding, oral-motor, and oral-placement therapies and currently specializes in treating those with motor speech disorders and dysarthria.She is currently treating, speaking, and writing about speech and feeding difficulties and abilities for those with the diagnosis of Down syndrome. She works closely with the Rocky Mountain Down Syndrome Association and collaborates with the Sie Center for Down Syndrome at Children’s Hospital Colorado.She is a licensed and certified Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) through the American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA) and the Colorado Speech-Language-Hearing Association and has worked in university and public school settings and private practice with children and adults with speech, language, motor, and feeding needs.About the ShowContact Us:slpfulldisclosure@gowithadvanced.comWebsite:https://gowithadvanced.com/slpfulldisclosureFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/gowithadvanced/Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/gowithadvanced/Produced by: Jonathan CaryMusic and Editing by: Aidan DykesPowered by: Advanced Travel Therapy

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Your App Lady  Show Notes Series 1 Episode 18 Welcome to series 1 episode 18 of the Your App Lady Podcast! All about apps and tech that I love and use every day. Interview: Barbara Fernandes Smarty Ears: http://smartyearsapps.com Barbara Fernandes, the founder and CEO of Smarty Ears received her master degree in Speech and Language Pathology with an emphasis in bilingualism from Texas Christian University. Barbara speaks three languages (English, Spanish & Portuguese), and she has worked with children from a variety of ethnic backgrounds and native languages in several countries. In addition to her passion for working with bilingual children, Barbara’s passion for technology has led her to become an active blogger known as “GeekSLP”  and the blog of the American Speech and Language Association known as the AshaSphere. As GeekSLP, Barbara has been invited as a guest speaker in universities and international conferences, and given workshops and presentations around the world on how technology can be implemented to improve the speech and language skills. In 2004, Barbara was one of the participants of the program jointly administered by the U.S. Department of Education and the Brazilian Ministry of Education, called “Promoting the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Society Through Assistive Technology: Culturally Appropriate Solutions.” Barbara has created over 60 applications that combine her knowledge of technology with her expertise in speech and language sciences. Smarty Ears is where Barbara’s passion is met. As the CEO of Smarty Ears, Barbara Fernandes has created applications which have been sold in over 50 countries to speech pathologists, special education teachers, and parents of children with special needs. In her spare time, Barbara enjoys traveling abroad, scuba diving and playing with her gadgets and three dogs. I interviewed Barbara at the Texas Speech Language and Hearing Association Annual Conference. We were in the exhibit hall so you may hear some background noise. I frequently recommend Smarty Ears apps for speech therapists. They are especially good for school therapists who have groups. Whether you are a speech therapist, interested in what goes into making apps or just curious about how people change careers, I think you will enjoy hearing from Barbara. Tech Tip My tech tip today is how to protect your computer or phone through safer internet browsing. For more information: https://www.addictivetips.com/vpn/tips-safer-internet-browsing/. When looking online, it’s important to be wary of downloading documents and software from unknown sources. Here are some tips that will help you download safely. 1)  .exe files- Be careful to only to download .exe files from trusted sources. EXE files are installers that will install a piece of software onto your device when you run them. 2)  .pdf files - Another file type to look out for is .pdf. PDFs are a legitimate and useful file type for sharing high quality text or image documents, so you’ll see them used for academic papers, business documents, and more. However, there are some security holes in the .pdf format so in general you should avoid .pdfs from untrustworthy sites. 3)  Update any antivirus or anti malware software often to make sure you have the latest updates. Thanks for listening to Your App Lady today!  Share the podcast with your friends, they’ll thank you for it! Get our newsletter and stay up to date by clicking here. Betsy can guide you through designing (or redesigning) your app or websites. Contact her at betsy@yourapplady.com or 713-542-8118 to get details about working with her. Follow me Twitter: @yourapplady Instagram: @yourapplady Facebook: @yourapplady LinkedIn: @BetsyFurler Website: www.yourapplady.com Voice over work by John Swasey - VO Producer -281-794-6551 johnswasey@sbcglobal.net

This week, some interviews and stories from the archive. We look at the data on gun deaths in Vermont, and think through ways to prevent suicides in places where gun ownership is part of life for many. Plus, Orange is the New Black actress Yael Stone reveals the thinking behind her character’s blend of Boston and Brookyln accents, and we talk with a linguist about how the way New Englanders talk is changing. Also, wicked powda, wicked cheap: a visit to a down-home mountain where skiing is affordable for the masses. Can you spot the dialect difference in this bagel shop menu? From the (now closed) Bagel Basement in Hanover, New Hampshire. Courtesy of James Stanford Under the Gun For many people in Vermont, guns are a way of life. Unlike more populous, more urban states in our region, Vermonters own guns at a higher rate, and fiercely protect their gun rights. That means looser gun laws than in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island; but also a higher per capita rate of gun deaths than in those states. Reporters at Vermont Public Radio looked into the numbers behind this reality, and found some surprising data and personal stories.  They learned that 420 people died from gunshot wounds in Vermont between 2011 and 2016. Eighty-nine percent of those deaths were suicides. Data visualization by Taylor Dobbs for Vermont Public Radio Cragin’s Gun Shop in Rutland, Vt. primarily serves hunters. Owner John Cragin said suicide is a tricky issue – but if he has any doubts about selling someone a gun, he won’t make the sale. Photo by Liam Elder-Connors for VPR Our guest Taylor Dobbs produced the reporting project “Gunshots: Vermont Gun Deaths, 2011-2016″ last summer, when he was digital reporter at Vermont Public Radio. (Dobbs is now an investigative and statehouse reporter for Seven Days.) We were also joined by Matthew Miller, M.D., a professor of health sciences and Epidemiology at Northeastern University and co-director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. VPR has made the death certificate data gathered for the project public. You can find a spreadsheet here. The Shifting New England Accent The Netflix prison drama “Orange is the New Black” features a woman with a Boston-flavored accent. Bit this character's way of talking is complicated, and so is her story. Developing that sound brought actress Yael Stone to Boston. There, she she met up with WBUR’s Sarah Rose Brenner, who has this report. A linguistic map based on 626 recent recordings collected by James Stanford and others from speakers around New England. Speakers in the red areas tend to pronounce the vowels in the words “lot” and “thought” the same way. Speakers in blue areas tend to pronounce the vowels in each word differently. Dropped Rs and long As can be heard, of course, not only in Boston, but across much of New England. Yet in a 2012 paper published in the Journal of American Speech, Dartmouth College linguist James Stanford and his colleagues made the case that a classic New England accent is receding. In a recent study, Stanford and his partners used an online crowd-sourcing tool to reach over 600 speakers around the region. This big data set allowed them to tease out subtle differences in the way people from different parts of New England talk. Their results will be published this year in American Speech. James Stanford joined us to discuss some of his team’s findings. Chaeyoon Kim, Sravana Reddy, Ezra Wyschogrod, and Jack Grieve are co-authors on the study. For a deep dive into the Vermont accent, we highly recommend the very first episode of Vermont Public Radio’s podcast Brave Little State. Are you proud of your accent? A little embarrassed? Or maybe you don't have an accent at all (or you don't think you do!) Tell us about it on Twitter or Facebook. You can also record yourself –or your loved one– on your phone’s voice recorder/ voice memo app. Send a clip to next@wnpr.org. Powder to the People A hand-painted sign hangs on the wall at the Veterans Memorial Recreation Area in Franklin, New Hampshire. Photo courtesy of NHPR. Here in New England, downhill skiing comes with a high price tag and a ritzy reputation. A lift ticket at Sugarloaf in Maine will run you $95, and at Jay Peak in Vermont, the price is $84. Even at Ski Sundown, a small mountain in Connecticut, getting on the slopes on a Saturday or Sunday costs $60. But at Veterans Memorial Ski Area in Franklin, New Hampshire, admission is just $20. Instead of a chair lift, there's a metal bar that goes behind the thighs, attached to a rope that pulls skiers up the 230-foot hill. Once upon a time, these no-frills ski areas were the rule in New England, rather than the exception. So what happened? The team at New Hampshire Public Radio’s podcast Outside/In went to Franklin to figure out how skiing “got fancy.” For more, listen to the full Outside/In episode, “Gnar Pow.” Connecticut is not known for big mountains. But if you travel to the far northwest corner, the Berkshires rise to nearly 2400 feet in the tiny town of Salisbury. It's there that you find a little piece of Nordic sporting history. For 92 years, Salisbury has been hosting “Jumpfest,” a celebration of ski jumping. During the main event, skiers in brightly colored suits fly off a snow-covered ramp, on top of a 220-foot hill. Spectators ring cowbells and drink hot toddies, but this isn't just for fun. The competition is a qualifier for the junior nationals, and most of the jumpers on the big hill are between 12 and 16. NEXT producer Andrea Muraskin paid a visit to last year’s festival and brought back this audio postcard. The 2018 Jumpfest runs February 9 through 11, and is open to the public. About NEXT NEXT is produced at WNPR. Host: John Dankosky Producer: Andrea Muraskin Executive Producer: Catie Talarski Contributors to this episode: Taylor Dobbs, Sarah Rose Brenner, Sam Evans-Brown, Jimmy Gutierrez, and Maureen McMurray Music: Todd Merrell, “New England” by Goodnight Blue Moon Get all the NEXT episodes. We appreciate your feedback! Send praise, critique, suggestions, questions, story leads, and recordings of your uncle’s accent to next@wnpr.org.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Katie Strong of Central Michigan University presents an episode on The State of Aphasia in North America. She interviews Dr. Nina Simmons-Mackie about Aphasia Access' recent report on the State of Aphasia.  Nina Simmons-Mackie Ph.D., BC-ANCDS is Professor and Scholar in Residence at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, LA. She is past president of Aphasia Access and serves on the current Aphasia Access board. She has received the Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders & Sciences and the Louisiana Speech-Language-Hearing Association. She received an Outstanding Clinical Achievement Award from the American Speech, Language and Hearing Foundation. Dr. Simmons-Mackie has many years of clinical, academic and research experience in neurogenic communication disorders and has published numerous articles and chapters in the area of adult aphasia. Interests include aphasia, qualitative research, and social model philosophies. In today’s episode, you will hear: The story that inspired the State of Aphasia in North America Report; A guided tour of the organization of the report; A few of Nina’s highlights from the report including the Impact of Social Isolation and Services for Aphasia. Download the Full Show Notes

Paola, 19, has lived most of her life in the U.S. after being brought from El Salvador by her mother when she was a child. She received deferred action in 2016 and Tuesday was her first day of classes at UMass Boston. Photo by Shannon Dooling for WBUR In Vermont, suicides account for 89 percent of gun-related deaths. Why is that percentage so high, and what’s being done to lower the risk? Also, we learn how the region is reacting to President Trump’s decision to end the DACA program. And we explore the wide variety of accents that color the speech of New Englanders and how those sounds are changing. Finally, we wade into an offshore war between Maine and New Hampshire and visit a summer camp with a colonial flair. It’s NEXT! You can stream the entire episode by clicking play on the embedded media player above or listen to the embedded SoundCloud files below for individual reports.  At Risk Students at Eastern Connecticut State University protest President Trump’s decision to end protections for undocumented young people on Tuesday, September 5, 2017. Photo by Ryan Caron King for WNPR We've been hearing the voices of young people around New England whose future is very uncertain. About 15,000 immigrants in our region have been granted temporary status under the program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. The Obama-era initiative allows young people whose parents brought them to the country illegally to live and work in the United States. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday that the government will phase out the DACA program. Many elected officials have reacted sharply toward that decision and four New England States have joined a lawsuit in support of DACA recipients. As reporter Shannon Dooling found, this news came at a difficult time for many students. She went to the University of Massachusetts-Boston on the first day of school with this report. Cragin’s Gun Shop in Rutland, Vt. primarily serves hunters. Owner John Cragin said suicide is a tricky issue – but if he has any doubts about selling someone a gun, he won’t make the sale. Photo by Liam Elder-Connors for VPR For many people in Vermont, guns are a way of life. Unlike more populous, more urban states in our region, Vermonters own guns at a higher rate and fiercely protect their gun rights. That means looser gun laws than in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island — but also a higher rate of gun deaths per capita than in those states. Vermont Public Radio wanted to look into the numbers behind this reality and found some surprising data and personal stories. Four hundred twenty people died from gunshot wounds in Vermont between 2011 and 2016. Eighty-nine percent of those deaths were suicides. Data visualization by Taylor Dobbs for Vermont Public Radio Our guest Taylor Dobbs is the digital reporter at Vermont Public Radio, and he produced the reporting project “Gunshots: Vermont Gun Deaths, 2011-2016.” We’re also joined by Matthew Miller, M.D., a professor of health sciences and Epidemiology at Northeastern University and co-director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. VPR has made the death certificate data gathered for the project public. See the spreadsheet here. The Shifting New England Accent The Netflix prison drama “Orange is the New Black” features a woman with a Boston-flavored accent. In fact, this character's way of talking is a little more complicated than that, and so is her story. Developing that sound brought actress Yael Stone to Boston. There, she met up with WBUR’s Sarah Rose Brenner, who has this report. Dropped Rs and long As can be heard, of course, not only in Boston but across much of New England. But in a 2012 paper published in the Journal of American Speech, Dartmouth College linguist James Stanford and his colleagues make the case that a classic New England accent is receding. Can you spot the dialect division in this bagel shop menu? From the (now closed) Bagel Basement in Hanover, New Hampshire. Courtesy of James Stanford In a study currently under peer review, Stanford and his partners used an online crowd-sourcing tool to reach over 600 speakers around the region. This big data set allowed them to tease out subtle differences in the way people from different parts of New England talk. James Stanford joins us to discuss some of his team’s findings. Chaeyoon Kim, Sravana Reddy, Ezra Wyschogrod, and Jack Grieve are co-authors on the study. For a deep dive into the Vermont accent, we highly recommend the very first episode of Vermont Public Radio’s podcast Brave Little State. Lobster Pots and Chamber Pots This map, produced by NH Fish & Game in 1976, details the claims made by both sides in the lobster wars. Courtesy Portsmouth Athenaeum Off the coast of New Hampshire are the iconic Isles of Shoals. Somewhere around the middle of those isles, there’s a dotted line: the state border between New Hampshire and Maine. As New Hampshire Public Radio's Jason Moon learned, that line has been the cause of some intense disagreement over the years among lobstermen. It's back-to-school time in New England. And in their “what I did this summer” essays, some Connecticut kids might be writing about the week they spent in 1774. Each year, the Noah Webster House in West Hartford, the childhood home of the founder of the American dictionary, holds Colonial Children's Camp. The program gives kids a taste of what daily life was like in Webster's time. NEXT producer Andrea Muraskin paid a visit. About NEXT NEXT is produced at WNPR. Host: John Dankosky Producer: Andrea Muraskin Executive Producer: Catie Talarski Digital Content Manager/Editor: Heather Brandon Contributors to this episode: Shannon Dooling, Taylor Dobbs, Sarah Rose Brenner, Jason Moon Music: Todd Merrell, “New England” by Goodnight Blue Moon Get all the NEXT episodes. We appreciate your feedback! Send praise, critique, suggestions, questions, story leads, and recordings of your mom’s accent to next@wnpr.org.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The words we choose can change attitudes--and change lives. A swing-dance instructor has switched to gender-neutral language when teaching couples. He insists that using words like "leader" and "follower" actually works better than using gendered terms. But not everyone agrees. Plus, a pithy observation about how stray comments can seem meaningless at the time, but can lodge in other people like seeds and start growing. Plus, slang you might hear in Albuquerque, sufficiently suffonsified, make ends meet, cut a chogie, and minders, finders, and grinders. FULL DETAILS Sometimes English grammar means that prepositions and adverbs pile up in funny ways. Take, for example, "It's really coming down up here" or "Turn left right here." A listener in Shreveport, Louisiana, reports that after a fine meal, her father used to announce, "I have dined sufficiently, and I have been well surossfied." It's a joking exaggeration of the word satisfied. In a 1980 article in American Speech, former editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English Frederic G. Cassidy reported lots of variations, including suffancifed, suffencified, suffoncified, suffuncified, and ferancified. Another version of the phrase goes "My sufficiency is fully surancified; any more would be obnoxious to my fastidious taste." A 1957 story by James Thurber includes a sentence with an oddly stranded preposition. Why do some place names include the word The, as in The Hague or the Bronx? The word traces denotes the long, thin leather straps that secure a horse to a wagon. The expression to kick over the traces, meaning "to become unruly," refers to the action of a horse literally kicking over those straps and getting all tangled up, and can be used metaphorically to describe a person who rebels against authority or tradition. Quiz Guy John Chaneski's game involves misreading memos that start with Re: For example, if Don Draper of Sterling Cooper Draper Price leaves a message asking you to "comprehend written matter", what's the subject of that message? A San Antonio, Texas, listener says some of her friends use the word toasted to mean "drunk" and some use it to mean "high on marijuana." Which is it? Attorneys use the terms minders, grinders, and finders to refer to different roles in a law firm. Finders get the business, grinders do the business, and minders keep the business. To cut a chogi, also spelled choagy or chogie, is a slang term meaning "Let's get out of here." It probably stems from Korean words meaning "go there," and was picked up by U.S. soldiers during the Korean War. The medical term sialogogic, which means "producing saliva," comes from Greek words meaning "to bring forth saliva." A San Diego, California, man says that when he got into trouble as a boy, his mother would say, "You lie like a rug and you hang like a cheap curtain." If you go to a party and the host neglects to put out the food that guests brought, or offers only a small portion of it, they're what you might call a belly robber. The Humans of New York series of portraits and quotations includes one subject's wise observation about how a single offhand remark can change a life. A swing-dance instructor in Burlington, Vermont, says gender-neutral language has been well-received in his own dance classes. Instead of the words man and woman, he now uses leader and follower. He reports this not only helps clarify his instructions but makes everyone feel welcome. Swing dancer Cari Westbrook has detailed discussions about the pros and cons of such gender-neutral language, as well as the word ambidanectrous, on her blog The Lindy Affair. To make ends meet means to make money last through the end of a calendar period. Poet Adrienne Rich wrote powerfully of the "psychic disequilibrium" that occurs when people don't see their own identities reflected in the language of others, "as if you looked in the mirror and saw nothing." Burqueno slang, spoken by residents of Albuquerque, New Mexico, includes such expressions as umbers, said ominously when someone's caught doing something wrong, as well as get down, meaning "to get out of a vehicle" and put gas for "fill a vehicle's gas tank." Then there's the Burqueno way to get off the phone: bueno bye! This episode is hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett, and produced by Stefanie Levine. -- A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donate Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time: Email: words@waywordradio.org Phone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673 London +44 20 7193 2113 Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771 Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donate Site: http://waywordradio.org/ Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/ Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/ Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/ Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2017, Wayword LLC.

It's hard enough to get a new word into the dictionary. But what happens when lawmakers get involved? New Jersey legislators passed a resolution as part of an anti-bullying campaign urging dictionary companies to adopt the word "upstander." It means "the opposite of bystander." But will it stick? And: 17th-century abolitionist Sojourner Truth was born in New York State, but for most of her childhood, she spoke only Dutch. There's a good reason for that. Plus, practical tips for learning to converse in any foreign language: Think of it like an exercise program, and work out with a buddy. Also, rhyming slang, kick the bucket, behind God's back, world-beaters, Twitter canoes, a slew of slang terms for that yep-nope hairstyle, the mullet. FULL DETAILS Plenty of people write to dictionary editors asking for words to be added. It almost never works. But what if politicians make a special request? To urge adoption of the term upstander, as in "the opposite of bystander," to honor those who stand up to bullies, the New Jersey State Senate passed a resolution urging two dictionary publishers to add it. Unfortunately, dictionaries don't work that way. Even so, whether a word is or isn't in the dictionary doesn't determine whether a word is real. If you're having difficulty parsing the meaning of the word defugalty, or difugalty, the joke's on you. It's just a goofy play on difficulty, one that's popular with grandparents. To summer and winter about a matter is an old expression that means "to carry on at great length" about it. A television journalist in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, wants a generic term for "house of worship" to use in place of the word church in news reports. Synagogue, temple, sanctuary, and mosque are all too specific. What's a fitting alternative?   Here's a riddle: What flies when it's born, lies when it's alive, and runs when it's dead? Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a game based on rhyming words with the word and in the middle. For example, what rhyming phrase is another name for Confederate flag? A teacher in Dallas, Texas, is trying to learn Spanish in order to chat casually with some of his students. He's having some success with the smartphone app DuoLingo. But an app won't necessarily give him the slang vocabulary he needs. A good way to learn a new language is to approach it as you would a fitness program. Set reasonable goals, commit to the long term, don't expect results overnight, and if possible, practice with a buddy or a trainer. A Tallahassee listener remembers as a child misunderstanding the sign at the Budget Inn as an exhortation--as in "Bud, get in!" English rhyming slang had a short run of popularity in the western U.S., thanks in part to Australians who brought it over (and then, again, thanks to a scene in Ocean's Eleven). But even in the U.K., it's now mostly defunct. Is there a word for that mind-blowing moment when you think you've heard it all, but then something happens that's completely out of your realm of experience? You might call this phenomenon a marmalade dropper. Others might call it a world-beater.  Have a better term for it? When a conversation on Twitter gets so crowded that replies contain more handles than actual comments, the result is a tipping Twitter canoe. For the first nine or ten years of her life, the 17th-century abolitionist Sojourner Truth spoke only Dutch. She later used her accent to great effect in her stirring speeches. As Jeroen Dewulf, director of Dutch Studies at University of California, Berkeley, points out in an article in American Speech, as late as the mid-18th century, there were so many Dutch slaveholders in New York and New Jersey meant that up to 20 percent of enslaved Africans in those states spoke Dutch. Cutting a check is a far more common phrase than tearing off a check, because for years checks weren't perforated, so bankers had to actual use a metal device to cut them. The idiom kick the bucket, meaning "to die," does not originate from the concept of kicking a bucket out from under one's feet. It has to do with an older meaning of bucket that refers to the wooden beam often found in a barn roof, where an animal carcass might be hung. A listener from California says her family's way of remarking on rain is to mention the space between falling drops. So a 12-inch rain means there's about a foot between one drop and the next. Tricky, huh? The term skinnymalink, or a skinny marink, is one way the Scots refer to someone who's thin. In the United States, the term goes back to the 1870's. Kentucky waterfall, North Carolina neck warmer, and Tennessee top hat are all terms for the mullet hairstyle. To say that something's behind God's back is to say that it's really far away. This may refer to Isaiah 38:17, which includes the phrase for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. In the Caribbean in particular, the saying behind God's back is idiomatic. Lisa Winer writes of it in detail in her Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago. This episode is hosted by Grant Barrett and Martha Barnette. -- A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donate Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time: Email: words@waywordradio.org Phone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673 London +44 20 7193 2113 Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771 Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donate Site: http://waywordradio.org/ Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/ Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/ Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/ Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2016, Wayword LLC.

The April 12, 2016 Boomer Generation Radio program includes interviews with Dr. Judith Curtin, AuD, CCC A/SLP, an audiologist with ABC Hearing in Philadelphia, PA, and Dr. Stephen Goldfine, chief medical officer of Samaritan Healthcare and Hospice in Marlton, NJ. [spp-player] About the Guests Judith A. Curtin, AuD, CCC A/SLP Judith A. Curtin , AuD , CCC A/SLP – Dr. Curtin is a AAA Board Certified audiologist and a ASHA certified speech pathologist. Dr. Curtin is a AAA Board Certified audiologist and a ASHA certified speech pathologist. She has practiced aural habilitation /rehabilitation audiology for over 30 years. She was awarded her Doctor of Audiology from the University of Florida in December of 2006. Dr. Curtin is a renowned innovator in audiology being one of the first to implement a comprehensive, integrative audiology program focused on training an older person. The program ensures maximum benefits from the hearing aids and develops listening strategies. Her research and expertise resulted in Manhattan Eye And Ear receiving FDA approval to implant a congenitally deaf child in the mid 1980′s. Dr. Curtin understands that “no man is an island”. ABC Hearing clients are treated, their family is supported, and their community is offered training and workshops. At the state and national level, she shares her knowledge organizing educational courses. She is involved in either lobbying for legislative change or advocacy work regarding the needs of the hearing impaired. Her training, research, and publications are known locally, nationally and internationally. She is recognized for her extensive continuing education program by the American Academy of Audiology by earning the “Scholar” award for 2003-4. And she has received the distinguished ACE awards from the American Speech and Language Association for two consecutive years, 2004 and 2005. Dr. Curtin is a faculty member of West Chester University since 2000 and formerly its Hearing Clinic Coordinator. She guests lectures at other similar institutions. She is a former Chair for Hearing and Hearing Disorders in Childhood for the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association. Dr. Stephen Goldfine, MD, DABFP, CAQGM, DABHPM Stephen Goldfine, MD, DABFP, CAQGM, DABHPMChief Medical Officer, Samaritan Healthcare and Hospice Dr. Stephen Goldfine, MD, DABFP, CAQGM, DABHPM,  is the full-time Chief Medical Officer for Samaritan Healthcare & Hospice and serves as a liaison between Samaritan and the medical community.  Dr. Goldfine graduated from Emory University, Atlanta, and received his medical doctorate from Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. He completed a family practice residency program at Virtua Hospital in Mt. Holly and is board certified by the American Board of Family Practice with added qualifications in geriatrics and from the American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. In 2009, Dr. Goldfine was named Hospice Physician of the Year by the New Jersey Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. He gained end-of-life experience from his practice at Primary Care of Moorestown and as Medical Director at several area rehabilitation facilities including Virtua Rehabilitation Center at Mt. Holly, the Lutheran Home of Moorestown and Moorestown Estates. Boomer Generation Radio is sponsored in part by Kendal Corporation, a Quaker-based provider of continuing care retirement communities in the Northeast and Midwest, airs on WWDB-AM 860 every Tuesday at 10 a.m., and features news and conversation aimed at Baby Boomers and the issues facing them as members of what Rabbi Address calls “the club sandwich generation.” You can hear the show live on AM 860, or streamed live from the WWDB website. Subscribe to the RSS feed for Boomer Generation Radio podcasts.   Subscribe to the RSS feed for all Jewish Sacred Aging podcasts.   Subscribe to these podcasts in the Apple iTunes Music Store.  

It's hard enough to get a new word into the dictionary. But what happens when lawmakers get involved? New Jersey legislators passed a resolution as part of an anti-bullying campaign urging dictionary companies to adopt the word "upstander." It means "the opposite of bystander." But will it stick? And: 17th-century abolitionist Sojourner Truth was born in New York State, but for most of her childhood, she spoke only Dutch. There's a good reason for that. Plus, practical tips for learning to converse in any foreign language: Think of it like an exercise program, and work out with a buddy. Also, rhyming slang, kick the bucket, behind God's back, world-beaters, Twitter canoes, a slew of slang terms for that yep-nope hairstyle, the mullet.FULL DETAILSPlenty of people write to dictionary editors asking for words to be added. It almost never works. But what if politicians make a special request? To urge adoption of the term upstander, as in "the opposite of bystander," to honor those who stand up to bullies, the New Jersey State Senate passed a resolution urging two dictionary publishers to add it. Unfortunately, dictionaries don't work that way. Even so, whether a word is or isn't in the dictionary doesn't determine whether a word is real. If you're having difficulty parsing the meaning of the word defugalty, or difugalty, the joke's on you. It's just a goofy play on difficulty, one that's popular with grandparents.To summer and winter about a matter is an old expression that means "to carry on at great length" about it. A television journalist in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, wants a generic term for "house of worship" to use in place of the word church in news reports. Synagogue, temple, sanctuary, and mosque are all too specific. What's a fitting alternative? Here's a riddle: What flies when it's born, lies when it's alive, and runs when it's dead? Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a game based on rhyming words with the word and in the middle. For example, what rhyming phrase is another name for Confederate flag?A teacher in Dallas, Texas, is trying to learn Spanish in order to chat casually with some of his students. He's having some success with the smartphone app DuoLingo. But an app won't necessarily give him the slang vocabulary he needs. A good way to learn a new language is to approach it as you would a fitness program. Set reasonable goals, commit to the long term, don't expect results overnight, and if possible, practice with a buddy or a trainer.A Tallahassee listener remembers as a child misunderstanding the sign at the Budget Inn as an exhortation--as in "Bud, get in!"English rhyming slang had a short run of popularity in the western U.S., thanks in part to Australians who brought it over (and then, again, thanks to a scene in Ocean's Eleven). But even in the U.K., it's now mostly defunct.Is there a word for that mind-blowing moment when you think you've heard it all, but then something happens that's completely out of your realm of experience? You might call this phenomenon a marmalade dropper. Others might call it a world-beater.  Have a better term for it?When a conversation on Twitter gets so crowded that replies contain more handles than actual comments, the result is a tipping Twitter canoe.For the first nine or ten years of her life, the 17th-century abolitionist Sojourner Truth spoke only Dutch. She later used her accent to great effect in her stirring speeches. As Jeroen Dewulf, director of Dutch Studies at University of California, Berkeley, points out in an article in American Speech, as late as the mid-18th century, there were so many Dutch slaveholders in New York and New Jersey meant that up to 20 percent of enslaved Africans in those states spoke Dutch.Cutting a check is a far more common phrase than tearing off a check, because for years checks weren't perforated, so bankers had to actual use a metal device to cut them. The idiom kick the bucket, meaning "to die," does not originate from the concept of kicking a bucket out from under one's feet. It has to do with an older meaning of bucket that refers to the wooden beam often found in a barn roof, where an animal carcass might be hung.A listener from California says her family's way of remarking on rain is to mention the space between falling drops. So a 12-inch rain means there's about a foot between one drop and the next. Tricky, huh?The term skinnymalink, or a skinny marink, is one way the Scots refer to someone who's thin. In the United States, the term goes back to the 1870's. Kentucky waterfall, North Carolina neck warmer, and Tennessee top hat are all terms for the mullet hairstyle.To say that something's behind God's back is to say that it's really far away. This may refer to Isaiah 38:17, which includes the phrase for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. In the Caribbean in particular, the saying behind God's back is idiomatic. Lisa Winer writes of it in detail in her Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago.This episode is hosted by Grant Barrett and Martha Barnette.--A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: words@waywordradio.orgPhone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donateSite: http://waywordradio.org/Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2015, Wayword LLC.

Dr. Robert Singer, section chief of cardiology at Virtua Health, Voorhees, NJ, is the guest in the first half of the May 13 Boomer Generation Radio program, discussing heart health for Baby Boomers. In the second half of the program, sponsored by Kendal Corporation, a system of not-for-profit assisted living communities throughout the Northeast and Midwest, Dr. Judith Kurtin, an audiologist and owner of ABCHearing.net, discusses common hearing problems. About the guests Read Dr. Singer's background on his Virtua Health information page.   Judith A. Curtin , AuD , CCC A/SLP – Dr. Curtin is a AAA Board Certified audiologist and a ASHA certified speech pathologist. Judith A. Curtin , AuD , CCC A/SLP – Dr. Curtin is a AAA Board Certified audiologist and a ASHA certified speech pathologist. She has practiced aural habilitation / re-habilitation audiology for over 30 years. She was awarded her Doctor of Audiology from the University of Florida in December of 2006. Dr. Curtin is known as an innovator in her field being one of the first to implement a comprehensive, integrative audiology program focused on training the older person to ensure maximum benefit from the hearing aids and to develop listening strategies. Her research and skill allowed Manhattan Eye And Ear to receive FDA approval to implant a congenitally deaf child in the mid 1980′s. Dr. Judy Curtin understands that “no man is an island”. When a client is brought into our office, the client is treated, the family is supported, the community and/or school where the client lives/works is offered training and workshops. At the state and national level, she shares her knowledge organizing educational courses. For legal issues she has been involved either lobbying for legislative change or advocacy work. Her training, research, and publications are known locally, nationally and internationally. She has been recognized for her extensive continuing education by the American Academy of Audiology earning the “Scholar” award for 2003-4 and by the American Speech and Language Association with the distinguished ACE awards for two consecutive years, 2004 and 2005. Dr. Judy Curtin is a faculty member of West Chester University (since 2000) and formerly its Hearing Clinic Coordinator. She guests lectures at other similar institutions. She is a former Chair for Hearing and Hearing Disorders in Childhood for the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association.

What is vocal fry and why is everyone talking about it? Join Caroline and Cristen as they explore valley girls and uptalk, ultimately asking why younger women are the linguistic trendsetters. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

What time is it if it's "the crack of chicken"? And when exactly is the "shank of the evening"? How do you pronounce the word spelled H-O-V-E-R? Did Warren G. Harding really coin the word normalcy? Also, a name game, sports nicknames, flounder vs. founder, Laundromats vs. washaterias, Black Dutch, nosebaggers, medical slang terms, and a look back at the joys of the early internet.FULL DETAILSWhen a car rolls slowly through a stop sign, it's often called a California stop or a California roll http://www.waywordradio.org/mute-point/. But the Midwest has its own monikers for this sneaky move, including the farmer stop, the Chicago stop, and "no cop, no stop."How early do you have to wake up to see what one listener calls the crack of chicken? It seems to be a twist on the term crack of dawn. Other terms for this early-morning time are o'dark thirty and the scratch of dawn.Did President Warren G. Harding coin the term normalcy in his famous Return to Normalcy speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXETeWS6ub8? Turns out the word normalcy was already in use before President Harding made it famous, but it's now become largely obsolete, while its synonym, normality, is generally the preferred term. Harding is also credited with--or blamed for--bringing the term hospitalization into the common vernacular.In his book, Presidential Voices: Speaking Styles from George Washington to George W. Bush http://books.google.com/books?id=Dh0wM9DNjbAC&pg=PA124&dq=allan+metcalf+presidential+voices+belittle&hl=en&sa=X&ei=x0-LT6CRHumI2gW8obHpAg&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=presidents%20as%20neologists&f=false, Allan Metcalf points out that U.S. presidents have contributed or popularized quite a few neologisms to the English language.In Texas, the California stop is also known as an Okie yield sign, an Okie crash sign, and a taxpayer stop.What does it mean to be gorked or crimped? These slang terms for high on drugs or crumpled in on oneself are used by hospital and Emergency Medical Services workers in a darkly comedic sense, often help cope with the stress of such traumatic work and to build solidarity among co-workers. Our Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a game of aptronyms for people whose names fit certain locations or conditions. For example, a guy hanging onto a wall might be named Art. Or what do you call a woman between two buildings? Ally!The racial descriptor Black Dutch http://www.genealogymagazine.com/blackdutch.html is one used by members of a certain ethnic group, like Cherokee Indian or African-American, that feel their identity will be viewed as more acceptable by those they're around if they use a different adjective. Black Irish and Black German are also used.What's the difference between flounder and founder? To flounder is "to struggle or thrash about," while to founder is "to sink or to fail." Surprisingly,  the verb flounder shares no etymological root with the fish, though the image of a flounder flapping helplessly about on the shore may have influenced our sense of the word.Skeuomorphs are aesthetic elements of design that no longer correlate with their original function. Computer software is full of skeuomorphs; for example, the save button that we're all used to is a picture of a floppy disc. But then, who uses floppy discs any more?With Linsanity and Tebowing sweeping the country, we're thinking about other great sports nicknames. Unfortunately, it seems that with unique names taking up a greater percentage of children born, there's no longer as much practical demand for nicknames. Still, the Babe, Magic, and The Refrigerator http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/sports/great-sports-nicknames-like-magic-are-disappearing.html?pagewanted=all live on in legend. The increasingly musty expression "like a broken record" has caused some confusion among digital natives who've heard of broken records only in terms of sports! Ben Zimmer published a brilliant collection of internet memes from the past twenty years in a the journal American Speech. Memes like facepalming http://static.divbyzero.nl/facepalm/doublefacepalm.jpg and the O, rly? owl http://i1.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/000/015/orly.jpg have allowed us to communicate otherwise unwritable sentiments via the internet.How do you pronounce the word hover? In England, it rhymes more with clobber than lover. If you want to learn how to say "My hovercraft is full of eels" in lots of different languages, head on over to Omniglot. http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hovercraft.htmIt's the shank of the evening! But when is that, exactly? This phrase is typically suggests that the night is far from over, shank being an old word for something straight, or the tail end of something. But as the Dictionary of American Regional English notes, in the South, evening is considered "the time between late afternoon and dusk."If you're on vacation, watch out for nosebaggers! This mid-19th century slang term refers to tourists who go to resort areas for the day but bring their own provisions and don't contribute to the local economy. A modern nosebagger might be the type of person who cracks open a soda can at the movies.Do you wash your clothes at a Laundromat or a washateria? http://pics3.city-data.com/businesses/p/1/2/8/1/4151281.JPG A chain of Laundromats in Texas that dated from 1930 to 1950 had the name Washateria, and it took hold as a general term, especially in Texas.A couple more variations of the California stop: the jackrabbit and the California slide.This week's episode was hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett and produced by Stefanie Levine.....Support for A Way with Words also comes from National University, which invites you to change your future today. More at http://www.nu.edu/.And from The Ken Blanchard Companies, whose purpose is to make a leadership difference among executives, managers, and individuals in organizations everywhere. More about Ken Blanchard's leadership training programs at kenblanchard.com/leadership.--A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: words@waywordradio.orgPhone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donateSite: http://waywordradio.org/Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2012, Wayword LLC.

What time is it if it's "the crack of chicken"? And when exactly is the "shank of the evening"? How do you pronounce the word spelled H-O-V-E-R? Did Warren G. Harding really coin the word normalcy? Also, a name game, sports nicknames, flounder vs. founder, Laundromats vs. washaterias, Black Dutch, nosebaggers, medical slang terms, and a look back at the joys of the early internet.FULL DETAILSWhen a car rolls slowly through a stop sign, it's often called a California stop or a California roll http://www.waywordradio.org/mute-point/. But the Midwest has its own monikers for this sneaky move, including the farmer stop, the Chicago stop, and "no cop, no stop."How early do you have to wake up to see what one listener calls the crack of chicken? It seems to be a twist on the term crack of dawn. Other terms for this early-morning time are o'dark thirty and the scratch of dawn.Did President Warren G. Harding coin the term normalcy in his famous Return to Normalcy speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXETeWS6ub8? Turns out the word normalcy was already in use before President Harding made it famous, but it's now become largely obsolete, while its synonym, normality, is generally the preferred term. Harding is also credited with--or blamed for--bringing the term hospitalization into the common vernacular.In his book, Presidential Voices: Speaking Styles from George Washington to George W. Bush http://books.google.com/books?id=Dh0wM9DNjbAC&pg=PA124&dq=allan+metcalf+presidential+voices+belittle&hl=en&sa=X&ei=x0-LT6CRHumI2gW8obHpAg&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=presidents%20as%20neologists&f=false, Allan Metcalf points out that U.S. presidents have contributed or popularized quite a few neologisms to the English language.In Texas, the California stop is also known as an Okie yield sign, an Okie crash sign, and a taxpayer stop.What does it mean to be gorked or crimped? These slang terms for high on drugs or crumpled in on oneself are used by hospital and Emergency Medical Services workers in a darkly comedic sense, often help cope with the stress of such traumatic work and to build solidarity among co-workers. Our Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a game of aptronyms for people whose names fit certain locations or conditions. For example, a guy hanging onto a wall might be named Art. Or what do you call a woman between two buildings? Ally!The racial descriptor Black Dutch http://www.genealogymagazine.com/blackdutch.html is one used by members of a certain ethnic group, like Cherokee Indian or African-American, that feel their identity will be viewed as more acceptable by those they're around if they use a different adjective. Black Irish and Black German are also used.What's the difference between flounder and founder? To flounder is "to struggle or thrash about," while to founder is "to sink or to fail." Surprisingly,  the verb flounder shares no etymological root with the fish, though the image of a flounder flapping helplessly about on the shore may have influenced our sense of the word.Skeuomorphs are aesthetic elements of design that no longer correlate with their original function. Computer software is full of skeuomorphs; for example, the save button that we're all used to is a picture of a floppy disc. But then, who uses floppy discs any more?With Linsanity and Tebowing sweeping the country, we're thinking about other great sports nicknames. Unfortunately, it seems that with unique names taking up a greater percentage of children born, there's no longer as much practical demand for nicknames. Still, the Babe, Magic, and The Refrigerator http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/sports/great-sports-nicknames-like-magic-are-disappearing.html?pagewanted=all live on in legend. The increasingly musty expression "like a broken record" has caused some confusion among digital natives who've heard of broken records only in terms of sports! Ben Zimmer published a brilliant collection of internet memes from the past twenty years in a the journal American Speech. Memes like facepalming http://static.divbyzero.nl/facepalm/doublefacepalm.jpg and the O, rly? owl http://i1.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/000/015/orly.jpg have allowed us to communicate otherwise unwritable sentiments via the internet.How do you pronounce the word hover? In England, it rhymes more with clobber than lover. If you want to learn how to say "My hovercraft is full of eels" in lots of different languages, head on over to Omniglot. http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hovercraft.htmIt's the shank of the evening! But when is that, exactly? This phrase is typically suggests that the night is far from over, shank being an old word for something straight, or the tail end of something. But as the Dictionary of American Regional English notes, in the South, evening is considered "the time between late afternoon and dusk."If you're on vacation, watch out for nosebaggers! This mid-19th century slang term refers to tourists who go to resort areas for the day but bring their own provisions and don't contribute to the local economy. A modern nosebagger might be the type of person who cracks open a soda can at the movies.Do you wash your clothes at a Laundromat or a washateria? http://pics3.city-data.com/businesses/p/1/2/8/1/4151281.JPG A chain of Laundromats in Texas that dated from 1930 to 1950 had the name Washateria, and it took hold as a general term, especially in Texas.A couple more variations of the California stop: the jackrabbit and the California slide.....Support for A Way with Words comes from National University http://www.nu.edu/, which invites you to change your future today. More at nu.edu.We're also grateful for support from the University of San Diego http://www.sandiego.edu. Since 1949, USD has been on a mission not only to prepare students for the world, but also to change it. Learn more about the college and five schools of this nationally ranked, independent Catholic university at sandiego.edu.--A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: words@waywordradio.orgPhone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donateSite: http://waywordradio.org/Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2012, Wayword LLC.

Oy! There are so many Yiddish words Americans (and Noo Yawkuz especially) use in everyday talking that it is really gevalt.  This is a VOA Wordmaster segment where I explore what some of those words are and what they mean. Originally tailored for broadcast to places where Yiddish has never never been heard. The post Yiddish in Mainstream American Speech appeared first on Audio by Adam. Related Posts Jewish Humor in America

This week we're learning Standard American Speech, using the specificity of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Find the chart here: http://web.uvic.ca/ling/resources/ipa/charts/IPAlab/IPAlab.htm

➡️ Like The Podcast? Leave A Rating: https://ratethispodcast.com/successstory ➡️ About The Guest⁣Valerie Fridland is a Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, with a distinguished career in linguistics and phonetics. Her research interests include sociophonetics, language variation and change, and regional dialectology. She has contributed significantly to the field of linguistics through her publications in prestigious journals such as Journal of Phonetics, Language Variation and Change, and American Speech. Valerie is also the lead editor of Speech in the Western States Volumes I, II and III, which are widely regarded as authoritative works on the phonetics and dialectology of the American West.In addition to her academic work, Valerie is an accomplished writer and communicator, writing a monthly column for Psychology Today. In her column, she applies her expertise in linguistics to topics related to psychology and mental health. Valerie's innovative research, insightful writing, and effective communication of complex ideas have earned her numerous awards and honors, including the Early Career Award from the Linguistic Society of America and the Regents' Award for Early Career Scholarship from the University of Nevada, Reno.Valerie Fridland's contributions to the field of linguistics are widely recognized, and she is respected for her expertise in phonetics, dialectology, and sociolinguistics. Her research has shed light on the complex ways in which language is used and how it varies across different regions and communities. Valerie's commitment to effective communication and outreach has also made her a valuable resource for those seeking to better understand the role of language in society.➡️ Show Linkshttps://twitter.com/FridlandValerie/      https://www.linkedin.com/in/valerie-fridland-0b29b5209/     https://www.valeriefridland.com/    ➡️ Podcast SponsorsHUBSPOT - https://hubspot.com/  MASTERCLASS - https://masterclass.com/successstory/ ➡️ Talking Points⁣00:00 - Intro02:43 - Valerie Fridland: The Linguistic Journey05:45 - The Power of Language: How It Shapes Our Lives17:27 - What Your Language Choices Reveal About Your Personality22:02 - Women's Voices and Their Influence on Men's Speaking Patterns33:46 - Language and Society Beyond North America37:58 - The Globalized World: Implications for Language and Communication42:11 - What Your Language Says About You: Insights from Val45:56 - The Good in Bad English: Arguments and Perspectives53:33 - Um, Uh, and Other Filler Words: Why We Use Them1:05:14 - The Psychology of Swearing: Why We Do It1:13:18 - Accent and Identity: How Our Environment Shapes Our Speech1:19:23 - Val's Advice for Success and Her Contact Handles1:23:35 - Valerie Fridland's Definition of SuccessAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy