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Ep 97: You Me & Speech Part 2 Jul 29, 2020

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In this episode Maria drank House Wine https://originalhousewine.com/wines/ and paired it with Cougar Cold Cheese from WSU Creamery. https://creamery.wsu.edu/cougar-cheese/

This episode is brought to you by Speech Sounds Visualized. An app that lets your clients see speech in action! It is the only app in the world that uses x-ray videos along with 3D animation to show how speech sounds are formed. It is packed with loads of features to accelerate learning! Available in the App Store and Google Play Store. Our listeners can be entered for a chance to win a FREE subscription to Speech Sounds Visualized: https://www.speechsoundsvisualized.org/slpwineandcheese

This episode is brought to you by Bjorem Speech Publications was founded by Jennie Bjorem, M.A., CCC-SLP in 2017 with her flagship product Bjorem Speech Sound Cues. We are excited to be publishing up-to-date, fun, child-inspired speech and language products created for therapists, by therapists. https://www.bjoremspeech.com

Deb interviewed Thaashida Hutton. Thaashida has been a speech-language pathologist for over 15 years. She obtained her Bachelor's of Arts degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders and Master's of Science in Speech-Language Pathology from Teachers College, Columbia University. She completed my CF in a specialized Austin school in Neptune, NJ. After 2 years she had the opportunity to work for Super Duper Publications as a published author, editor, and research developer. From then she went on to pursue working with the Early Intervention population. Over the years, she also had the opportunity to work in charter schools, home care, private practice clinics and most recently preschools. Thaashida likes to dabble in many things such as taking on private clients from time to time as well as working full-time in a specialized preschool for children with Autism. She absolutely loves being an SLP. You can find Thaashida on Instagram @youmeandspeech or email at youmeandspeech@gmail.com

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Ep 96: You Me & Speech Part 1 Jul 23, 2020

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In this episode Maria drank Rosè Kombucha tea and paired it with Cougar Cold Cheese from WSU Creamery. https://creamery.wsu.edu/cougar-cheese/

Maria talked about the new moon in Cancer. Here is an interesting article: https://www.elitedaily.com/p/the-july-2020-new-moon-is-about-accepting-yourself-for-who-you-are-29184103

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Ep 95: Making an app in 5 steps Jul 15, 2020

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Deb and Maria began the session with going over SLP Wins instead of wine. Maria shared how her student attempted to say her name for the first time. Deb shared an incidental SLP win by having extra time to evaluate her new clients.

Maria then interviewed Keri Jones, Becky Highfill and Carrie Coen from Pullman Regional Hospital. Together they drank wine and ate cheese. Maria ate an aged white cheddar called Cougar Gold. It can be found here: https://creamery.wsu.edu/cougar-cheese/flavors/

Keri, Becky and Carrie drank wine from Merry Cellars Wine which can be found: http://merrycellars.com

Keri, Becky and Carrie talked 5 ways to create an app. They created the Speech Sounds Visualized app. They broke down the steps:

1- Research and recommended listeners to read "What do you do with an idea?" https://www.amazon.com/What-Do-You-Idea/dp/1938298071

2- doing your homework about your customer. What do they want?

3- checking out graphic designers using Upwork, https://www.upwork.com

4- being flexible

5- being open to new opportunities, such as being on a podcast! :)

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Ep 94: Gender Affirmation Voice Ft. Kristie Knickerbocker Jun 25, 2020

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Deb and Maria began the episode with Maria drinking House Wine Limited Edition Rosè Bubbles, which can be purchased here: https://originalhousewine.com/wine/limited-edition-rainbow-rose-bubbles-375-ml-can/

Deb and Maria talked about an ASHA course titled Transgender Voice and Beyond: Voice and Communication Training for Gender Expression. Course can be found here: https://apps.asha.org/eWeb/OLSDynamicPage.aspx?title=Transgender+Voice+and+Beyond%3a+Voice+and+Communication+Training+for+Gender+Expression&webcode=olsdetails

'Gender affirmation' refers to an interpersonal, interactive process whereby a person receives social recognition and support for their gender identity and expression (Bockting, Knudson, & Goldberg, 2006; Melendez & Pinto, 2007; Nuttbrock, Bockting, et al., 2009).

Thank you to our sponsors: Bjorem Speech Publications & The Sensory Studio:

Bjorem Speech Publications was founded by Jennie Bjorem, M.A., CCC-SLP in 2017 with her flagship product Bjorem Speech Sound Cues. We are excited to be publishing up-to-date, fun, child-inspired speech and language products created for therapists, by therapists. https://www.bjoremspeech.com

-This episode is also brought to you by the Sensory Studio. They are now offering teletherapy to all NYers. Please email them at info@thesensorystudio.com or call (718) 979-5678 to reach their parent coordinator. Check out their website at: https://thesensorystudio.com/category/speech-therapy/

Special thank you to our guest Kristie Knickerbocker! Kristie Knickerbocker, MS, CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist and singing voice specialist in Fort Worth, Texas. She rehabilitates voice and swallowing at her private practice, a tempo Voice Center, and lectures on voice science nationally. She is part of the Professional Development Committee for ASHA Special Interest Group 3, Voice and Upper Airway Disorders, and a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and the Pan-American Vocology Association. Knickerbocker blogs on her website at www.atempovoicecenter.com. She has developed a line of kid and adult-friendly therapy materials specifically for voice on TPT or her website. Follow her on Pinterest, on Twitter and Instagram or like her on Facebook.

Research study mentioned in the interview with Kristie: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Travis_Benson/publication/323744253_Effectiveness_of_testosterone_therapy_for_masculinizing_voice_in_transgender_patients_A_meta-analytic_review/links/5ebea67192851c11a86876c2/Effectiveness-of-testosterone-therapy-for-masculinizing-voice-in-transgender-patients-A-meta-analytic-review.pdf

The Transgender Voice Questionnaire (TVQ) mentioned: http://www.shelaghdavies.com/questionnaire/TVQ_Questionnaire.pdf

Vocal Function Exercises: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5429c0dfe4b041fc9d87d529/t/54b498bbe4b02b8a0e42cd9a/1421121723771/Vocal+Function+Exercises.pdf

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Ep 93 Wine 101 Jun 13, 2020

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Deb and Maria talk about wine with wine experts James and Joe from Üllo. You can purchase your Üllo here https://ullowine.com/

-This episode is also brought to you by the Sensory Studio. They are now offering teletherapy to all NYers. Please email them at info@thesensorystudio.com or call (718) 979-5678 to reach their parent coordinator. Check out their website at: https://thesensorystudio.com/category/speech-therapy/

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Ep. 92: Actively Anti-Racism Jun 04, 2020

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In this episode Deb drank pomegranate flavored kombucha tea, needless to say Maria inspired her. Maria drank iced mint tea with fresh mint and Eric Kent's Rosé which can be found at: https://www.erickentwines.com/shop/item?itemid=1811&catid=17

Deb and Maria talked about being anti-racism and discussing the current climate in the U.S.

Warning: This episode contains content related to violence, abuse, and traumatic events.

TED Talk Maria was referring to: https://www.ted.com/talks/robin_steinberg_and_manoush_zomorodi_the_us_is_addicted_to_incarceration_here_s_how_to_break_the_cycle?rss=172BB350-0207

Emotions Chart Maria uses: https://www.patreon.com/posts/38091713

What is institutional or systemic racism? "less overt, far more subtle"
Institutional racism was defined by Sir William Macpherson in the UK's Lawrence report (1999) as: "The collective failure of an organization to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their colour, culture, or ethnic origin. It can be seen or detected in processes, attitudes and behaviour which amount to discrimination through prejudice, ignorance, thoughtlessness and racist stereotyping which disadvantage minority ethnic people."
When white terrorists bomb a black church and kill five black children, that is an act of individual racism, widely deplored by most segments of the society.
But when in that same city – Birmingham, Alabama – five hundred black babies die each year because of the lack of proper food, shelter and medical facilities, and thousands more are destroyed and maimed physically, emotionally and intellectually because of conditions of poverty and discrimination in the black community, that is a function of institutional racism.
When a black family moves into a home in a white neighborhood and is stoned, burned or routed out, they are victims of an overt act of individual racism which most people will condemn.
But it is institutional racism that keeps black people locked in dilapidated slum tenements, subject to the daily prey of exploitative slumlords, merchants, loan sharks and discriminatory real estate agents. The society either pretends it does not know of this latter situation, or is in fact incapable of doing anything meaningful about it.
Jim Crow Laws: Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
[1] All were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by blacks during the Reconstruction period.
2] The Jim Crow laws were enforced until 1965.
Facilities for African Americans and Native Americans were consistently inferior and underfunded compared to the facilities for white Americans; sometimes, there were no facilities for people of color.
[4][5] As a body of law, Jim Crow institutionalized economic, educational, and social disadvantages for African Americans and other people of color living in the South.
The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness By Michelle Alexander
The New Jim Crow tells a truth our nation has been reluctant to face.
The New Jim Crow is a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, one that has resulted in millions of African Americans locked behind bars and then relegated to a permanent second-class status—denied the very rights supposedly won in the Civil Rights Movement.
Alexander shows that, by targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of colorblindness.
Police Brutality
The shooting of Walter Scott occurred on April 4, 2015, in North Charleston, South Carolina, following a daytime traffic stop for a non-functioning brake light.
Bettie Jones was fatally shot Dec. 26, 2015, by police responding to a domestic disturbance call at a West Garfield Park apartment building near Chicago, Illinois. Verdict: settlement
On July 6, 2016, Philando Castile, a 32-year-old African American man, was stopped while driving and fatally shot by Jeronimo Yanez, a 29-year-old Hispanic-American police officer from St. Anthony, Minnesota. Verdict: Not guilty
"He killed my boyfriend," Reynolds said. She claimed that police had opened fire when Castile reached for his driver’s license, as an officer requested: "He let the officer know that he had a firearm, and he was reaching for his wallet, and the officer just shot him in his arm."
On September 6, 2018, off-duty Dallas Police Department patrol officer Amber Guyger entered the Dallas, Texas, apartment of 26-year-old accountant Botham Jean and fatally shot him. Guyger said that she had entered the apartment believing it was her own and that she shot Jean believing he was a burglar.[1][2] The fact that Guyger, a white police officer, shot and killed Jean, an unarmed black man, and was initially only charged with manslaughter, resulted in protests and accusations of racial bias.[3][4][5] On October 1, 2019, Guyger was found guilty of murder.[6] The next day, she received a sentence of ten years in prison.[7]
Atatiana Jefferson, a 28-year-old woman, was shot and killed in her home by a police officer in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, in the early morning of October 12, 2019. Police arrived at her home after a neighbor called a non-emergency number, stating that Jefferson's front door was open. Police body camera footage showed that when she came to her window to observe police outside her home, Officer Aaron Dean shot through it and killed her.[2] Police stated that they found a handgun near her body, which according to her 8-year-old nephew, she was pointing toward the window before being shot.[3][2][4] On October 14, 2019, Dean resigned from the Fort Worth Police Department and was arrested on a murder charge.[5][6] On December 20, 2019, Dean was indicted for murder.[7][8] Jefferson was black and the officer who shot her is white
On March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African American woman, was fatally shot by Louisville Metro Police Department officers in her sleep. African-American emergency room technician. After a brief confrontation, they fired several shots, striking her at least eight times. According to The Louisville Courier Journal, the police were investigating two men who they believed were selling drugs out of a house that was far from Ms. Taylor’s home. But a judge had also signed a warrant allowing the police to search Ms. Taylor’s residence because the police said they believed that one of the two men had used her apartment to receive packages. The judge’s order was a so-called “no-knock” warrant, which allowed the police to enter without warning or without identifying themselves as law enforcement. The three officers have been placed on administrative reassignment.
On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner died in the New York City borough of Staten Island after Daniel Pantaleo, a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer, put him in a chokehold while arresting him.[3] Video footage of the incident generated widespread national attention and raised questions about the appropriate use of force by law enforcement. NYPD officers approached Garner on July 17 on suspicion of selling single cigarettes from packs without tax stamps. After Garner told the police that he was tired of being harassed and that he was not selling cigarettes, the officers attempted to arrest Garner. When Pantaleo placed his hands on Garner, Garner refused to cooperate and pulled his arms away. Pantaleo then placed his arm around Garner's neck and wrestled him to the ground. With multiple officers restraining him, Garner repeated the words "I can't breathe" 11 times while lying face down on the sidewalk.
Sandra Bland was a 28-year-old African American woman who was found hanged in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas, on July 13, 2015, three days after being arrested during a pretextual traffic stop. Her death was ruled a suicide.
On 22 November 2014 Tamir Rice, a 12-year old boy, was fatally murdered in Cleveland, Ohio by Timothy Loehmann, a 26-year-old police officer. Rice was carrying a replica toy Airsoft gun; Loehmann shot him almost immediately after arriving on the scene.

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Ep. 91: Talking with an #SLPBoss May 26, 2020

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Maria and Deb begin the episode with an easy glass of white wine. Needless to say they voted "drink it" and ate Parmesan cheese. Next, Maria interviews Michele Desimone. Dr. DeSimone holds a clinical doctoral degree in speech-language pathology. She is the founder and clinical director at The Sensory Studio, a pediatric center for speech and occupational therapy. Dr. DeSimone specializes in disorders affecting pediatric development and provides educational mentorship to many local clinical providers. Michele enjoys learning, traveling and exploring nature with her husband and two small children.

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Ep 90: It's HOW you say it ft. Corinne Vargas May 19, 2020

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On this episode, Maria and Deborah chat with Corinne Vargas. Maria drank a chardonnay that she definitely voted "Drink it". The wine Maria drank can be found at: https://www.erickentwines.com/shop/item?itemid=2020&catid=436

Corinne Vargas is a specialist in leveling the workforce playing field and enabling others to be seen for their unique talents and authentic selves by highlighting strengths, accomplishments and desired messages. In 2019, Corinne launched a start-up called Smart Charts to support people of all ages and backgrounds throughout their path to betterment, development and rebuilding. Find her Smart Charts https://www.mysmartcharts.com

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Ep 89: Life in quarantine with Gayle Merrefield May 12, 2020

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In this episode Maria talks with her mentor Gayle Merrefield. Gayle Merrefield’s undergraduate background was in speech and theater. She went on to study speech-language pathology at the University of Georgia, where she earned her master’s degree in 1978. Gayle’s early career was happily spent in the public schools in Georgia. When she relocated to New York with her family in the mid-1980s, she worked primarily in early intervention and a special needs preschool. Eventually Gayle opened a private practice on Staten Island, and later in Manhattan, where she has lived since 2006. Gayle became an instructor for the PROMPT Institute in 2005 and has been teaching course and mentoring clinicians ever since. You can find her at: https://promptinstitute.com/members/?id=37668747

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Ep 88: Our 2 year Anniversary! May 07, 2020

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Thank you so very much to all of our listeners!

It's May 7 2020 and it is our 2 year anniversary!! It's also episode 88 and Deborah and Maria were born in 1988. They started this podcast right before turning 30 and had some inner struggles. However, this podcast has brought us so much joy and creativity to our lives. Thank you so much for your ongoing support. Also, thank you to our sponsors that help us to keep improving our show! :)

We love to hear from our listeners our email is: slpswineandcheese@gmail.com

Cheers to more episodes, healthy and happiness!!

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