This week on "Life After Stroke with Christopher Ewing", we chat with Linda Dominguez-Gasson, MCD, CCC-SLP, the Manager of Speech Pathology, Neurodiagnostics, and Audiology at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, CA. With over 40 years of experience, she is state-licensed in the area of Speech, Language, Cognition and Swallowing. She also has her Masters Degree in Speech-Language Pathology, with a strong emphasis in stroke rehabilitation.

Topics covered in this episode include:

- The many roles of a speech pathologist

- What is a cascading stroke?

- Hemiparesis

- Improving your speech and articulation following a stroke

- Oral motor apraxia

- Swallowing difficulties following a stroke

- What is aphasia?

- What is dysarthria?

- Denial of deficits

- What does “insight” have to do with speech and stroke?

- What is the primary job of the vocal chords?  Hint: it’s not just to create speech

- Depression following a stroke

- Insurance companies and their lack of willingness to cover speech therapy in some cases

- Things you can do right now to rehabilitate your speech and language skills, as well as your physical and mental abilities and much more!

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