On this episode of The Swallow Your Pride Podcast, I sit down with Laura Morgan was halfway through her clinical fellowship in speech-language pathology when a motor vehicle accident left her with a moderate-severe traumatic brain injury, a fractured jaw, and broken C1 and C2 vertebrae. She spent 72 days inpatient, had to retake the Praxis, redo her CF, and fight her way back into the field she’d just entered. Laura shares what she learned about brain injury rehabilitation from the patient’s perspective: why your office decorations matter more than you think, how cognitive progress and grief can show up at the same time, what errorless learning looks like in everyday life, and why recognizing a patient’s lost coping mechanisms should come before any clinical label. Laura now works at Metro Therapy Center in Gaithersburg, MD and has given over 50 multimedia presentations on her experience as both a provider and a recipient of speech pathology services.
Learn more at www.soundmindinsights.com and follow her on Instagram @slp_tbi and @soundmindinsights.
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Laura Morgan is an employee of Metro Therapy Center (https://metrotherapycenter.com/) in Gaithersburg, MD. She has received some compensation for presentations on her clinical reflections from being both a Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury survivor and Speech-Language Pathologist, Certified Brain Injury Specialist Trainer. Non-financial disclosures include her website, www.soundmindinsights.com, instagram accounts, @slp_tbi and @soundmindinsights, and role as treasurer for TBI MedSLP, a 501©(3), non-profit brain injury education organization.
In 2012, after Laura Morgan earned a master’s in Speech-language Pathology, she started her clinical fellowship in Frederick, Maryland. Halfway through the fellowship, Laura was a buckled passenger in a serious motor vehicle accident. She sustained a moderate-severe brain injury in the accident, but as a result of the long rehab process, gained a unique perspective on brain injury for the field of Speech Pathology. Laura has shared her clinical reflections from being both a provider and a recipient of this discipline in articles and over fifty multimedia presentations, which can be explored on her website, www.soundmindinsights.com. She loves working with individuals and also leading groups as a paid employee at Metro Therapy Center, desiring to inspire and assist others in discovering hope after brain injury.
