Inside SLP

18: What People Are Actually Arguing About

The intensity in SLP spaces right now isn’t a sign of collapse. It’s the friction of a profession that has grown faster than the structures built to support it. In this e

17: Apparently, You Can Do That

In 1968, the ASHA Convention became a moment of rupture. Not because of disorder, but because long-standing tensions were finally named. This episode examines what happen

16: Optional Membership Is the Point

Many SLPs experience ASHA membership as essential to survival even when, structurally, it is designed to be optional. This episode examines why that tension exists, and w

15: Bogus, But Not Like That

How did ASHA come to link membership and certification? And what happened when that structure was challenged? In the 1970s, one SLP brought that question into federal cou

14: Before the CCC Meant Anything

In the 1940s, the idea that a private organization could define professional eligibility was so controversial it sparked accusations of communism. This episode traces the

13: Following the Money Without Losing the Plot

When we ask why change inside SLP feels so difficult, we often look to policy debates or leadership decisions. This episode looks instead at the financial architecture un

12: What ASHA Can’t Legally Do

In moments of professional frustration, it’s easy to confuse visibility with authority and to assume that the loudest voice is also the one holding the gavel. This episod

11: There Was Money Around

In the early 1960s, SLP leaders described trips to Capitol Hill as terrifying, migraine-inducing encounters with a world they didn’t yet understand. A few decades later,

10: Who Actually Holds the Pen?

Welcome to Systems Literacy 101. In this episode, we step out of the social media noise and into the architecture of speech-language pathology, tracing how authority move

09: Audiology Pivots Away

Audiology and SLP share a common history, but they did not share the same future. This episode traces the critical divorce of the 1980s, starting with a 1987 convention s

08: The Under-Built House

Are you failing, or is the system failing you? This episode explores the psychological and political costs of an under-built profession. Using the 2020 ASHA Ad Hoc Report

07: Why the Degree Never Changed

Why has the speech-language pathology entry-level degree remained unchanged for over 70 years while the medical world evolved around it? This episode excavates the critic

06: A Training Model Unlike Any Other

SLP is the only allied health or education-adjacent profession that completes most of its clinical training after the degree. This episode unpacks how unusual that struct

05: The Patchwork Profession

Across the United States, speech-language pathology licensure looks wildly different from state to state. It's a patchwork of rules shaped not by a single national author

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Inside SLP is a short, weekly podcast about the systems that shape speech-language pathology. In ten minutes at a time, we explore how training, credentialing, licensure

04: It’s 1969 in Florida

In 1969, Florida became the first state to license speech-language pathologists and audiologists, which reshaped the entire profession. But the fight for licensure starte

03: How the CCC Came to Be

Every system has an origin story. In Episode 3, we step back in time to examine how the CCC was created, what problems it was meant to solve, and why it once made sense.

02: Fixing vs. Contemplating

In this episode, I talk about the pull of certainty and how reassuring it can feel to believe there are clear answers, fixed structures, and someone who has it all figure

01: START HERE: The Summer I Failed the Test

In 2015, a paperwork mistake and a failed jurisprudence exam left me living in a tent in Montana and questioning everything I thought I knew about becoming a speech-langu