In this episode of the Swallow Your Pride Podcast, John Holahan, founder of SimplyThick®, joins me to discuss his new book, “Modern Dysphagia Cooking.” The cookbook provides guidance on how to make dysphagia-compliant dishes at home, and John shares the...
Transitional foods have been a brand new category introduced to SLPs in recent years, but how much do we really know about them? In this episode, Ekaterina Bruno M.Ed, CCC-SLP, BCS-S walks us through the research and explains the benefits that various populations have...
IDDSI, or the International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative, is a global initiative to get everyone on the same page when it comes to modifying foods and liquids for people with dysphagia. John Holahan, the founder of SimplyThick, is here to discuss how we...
If you’re into grainy sludge, feel free to skip this episode. For the rest of us, John Holahan, founder of Simply Thick, is here to talk about xanthan gum, rheology, and IDDSI. Even though xanthan gum sounds like a substance mined on a distant planet, it’s been around...
Are you still hesitant to order instrumental assessments? Do you watch your patient aspirate 1 sip of honey thick and shut down the study? Do you know all of the REAL reasons that we have to be sure we are ordering instrumentals assessments for our patients even the...
On episode 015 of the Swallow Your Pride Podcast we have Rebecca Levy back for a Part 2! Rebecca is an SLP currently in the role of Clinical Program Consultant for ACP’s Synchrony dysphagia program. Rebecca has worked in healthcare for over 11 years. Although she...
