Cultural competence in the field of communication sciences & disorders (CSD) is an essential topic, especially when so many CSD professionals in the United States continue to be white and female. How can clinicians navigate an increasingly diverse client base if they lack key cultural perspectives and awareness? And how can clients who identify as racial and/or ethnic minorities be expected to connect with SLPs and AuDs who simply don’t understand their lived experiences? What does this all mean for quality of care not just in the field of CSD, but the US healthcare system at large?

In this episode, Emily & Aidan chat with second year SLP student Katie Nguyen about her experience in grad school as a BIPOC individual, unpack the complicated barriers that face many minority student clinicians, and outline her biggest hopes for the future of cultural diversity in CSD.

A HUGE thank you to listener Madelyn for submitting today’s LingQuery!

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Hello, hello! Welcome to LingQuery, the show that asks - and attempts to answer - questions related to the language and communication sciences. Every episode, we respond in tandem with guests from a wide variety of disciplines to an audience-submitted question or “LingQuery”, all about human communication and its array of interrelated systems and modalities. Uncovering fascinating insights and perspectives you won’t hear anywhere else, this series explores the nature of phenomena such as speech, language, and cognition from the perspectives of biology, psychology, anthropology, art, and more. LingQuery, listen wherever you get your pods.

Produced by LittleFire.

Directed & edited by Raz Cunningham

Co-written & co-hosted by Aidan Laliberte & Emily Tuohey

If you’re reading this sentence with ease, consider yourself privileged. Why? Language development is a complex cognitive process that involves distinct, yet overlapping, domains. Most of it develops relatively effortlessly and without instruction. But there’s a crucial component that needs to be explicitly taught, and it's one that most of us take for granted - literacy. It’s no secret that reading and writing are among the most essential skills for success in the modern world, and the implications of falling behind in these abilities extend well beyond the classroom.

In this episode, Aidan & Emily chat with Dr. Bernard Grela about all things literacy - how it develops, how it's taught, and what happens when it’s compromised, especially in the case of dyslexia, a language disorder marked by a cluster of distinct symptoms.

A HUGE thank you to listener Mo for submitting today’s LingQuery!

Do YOU have a burning question about the language & communication sciences that you’d like to see featured on the show? Record your own audio “LingQuery” and DM it to @lingquery_pod on IG.

Welcome to LingQuery, the show that asks - and attempts to answer - questions related to the language and communication sciences. Every episode, we respond in tandem with guests from a wide variety of disciplines to an audience-submitted question or “LingQuery”, all about human communication and its array of interrelated systems and modalities. Uncovering fascinating insights and perspectives you won’t hear anywhere else, this series explores the nature of phenomena such as speech, language, and cognition from the perspectives of biology, psychology, anthropology, art, and more. LingQuery, listen wherever you get your pods.

Produced by LittleFire.

Directed & edited by Raz Cunningham

Co-written & co-hosted by Aidan Laliberte & Emily Tuohey

Think about your thinking for a moment. No seriously. Are you doing it? Now think some more. Is your inner monologue composed of actual words or is it simply a stream of images or impressions? What would it be like to “think” without language anyway?

In this episode, Aidan & Emily are joined by Dr. Amanda Wadams of St. Louis University to talk about the intertwined, yet distinct domains of human cognition and language, and how they’re relevant to individuals with aphasia, a communication disorder that often emerges after stroke or TBI. In this illuminating interview, Dr. Wadams discusses her research investigating the role of therapy that targets both meta-cognitive (the ability to think about one’s own thinking) and linguistic skills concurrently. In building clients’ self-awareness of their unique communicative strengths and weaknesses, treatment outcomes for aphasia may be vastly improved. But, navigating the layered dimensions of language, thought, and attention is NO easy task.

A HUGE thank you to listener Emmy for submitting today’s LingQuery!

Do YOU have a burning question about the language & communication sciences that you’d like to see featured on the show? Record your own audio “LingQuery” and DM it to @lingquery_pod on IG.

Welcome to LingQuery, the show that asks - and attempts to answer - questions related to the language and communication sciences. Every episode, we respond in tandem with guests from a wide variety of disciplines to an audience-submitted question or “LingQuery”, all about human communication and its array of interrelated systems and modalities. Uncovering fascinating insights and perspectives you won’t hear anywhere else, this series explores the nature of phenomena such as speech, language, and cognition from the perspectives of biology, psychology, anthropology, art, and more. LingQuery, listen wherever you get your pods.

Produced by LittleFire.

Directed & edited by Raz Cunningham

Co-written & co-hosted by Aidan Laliberte & Emily Tuohey

Can you repeat that? We didn’t quite catch- what?! WHAT?!?

For many of us, hearing is an essential component of language & communication. Unfortunately, the research is in, and the modern world is louder than ever. From industrial noise pollution, to jam-packed crowded cities to personal devices that deliver sound straight to our eardrums, protecting our hearing has never been more important. And no, we’re not just talking about our grandparents’ hearing. Modern developments have made it so that today’s young people are at an increased risk of losing their hearing, and at a faster rate than previous generations.

In this episode, Emily & Aidan are joined by audiologist and University of Connecticut doctoral student Alexa Kolias to discuss how to (safely) navigate a noisy and chaotic auditory world.

A HUGE thank you to listener Nicole for submitting today’s LingQuery!

Do YOU have a burning question about the language & communication sciences that you’d like to see featured on the show? Record your own audio “LingQuery” and DM it to @lingquery_pod on IG.

Welcome to LingQuery, the show that asks - and attempts to answer - questions related to the language and communication sciences. Every episode, we respond in tandem with guests from a wide variety of disciplines to an audience-submitted question or “LingQuery”, all about human communication and its array of interrelated systems and modalities. Uncovering fascinating insights and perspectives you won’t hear anywhere else, this series explores the nature of phenomena such as speech, language, and cognition from the perspectives of biology, psychology, anthropology, art, and more. LingQuery, listen wherever you get your pods.

Produced by LittleFire.

Directed & edited by Raz Cunningham

Co-written & co-hosted by Aidan Laliberte & Emily Tuohey

The identity of stuttering as a clinical condition has gone through several big changes over the last few decades, with research and clinical efforts focused increasingly on the psychosocial factors that impact those who stutter. In this episode, Emily & Aidan team up with student clinician Matthew Phillips, a person who stutters, to discuss the many dimensions of “fluency” in the field of speech-language pathology. Thank you to listener Vin for submitting today’s LingQuery!

Got a burning question about the language & communication sciences that you’d like to see featured on the show? Record an audio “LingQuery” and DM it to @lingquery_pod on Instagram OR email us at lingquery.pod@gmail.com

Have you ever listened to a foreign language and marveled at the auditory chaos that bombards your ear? It’s impossible to tell where one word ends and the next begins. Emily & Aidan talk with cognitive scientist Dr. Emily Myers, who in her captivating career as an educator & researcher has unearthed astounding insights and questions about the human ability of speech and its perception. Thanks to listener Austin for submitting today’s LingQuery!

Got a burning question about the language & communication sciences that you’d like to see featured on the show? Record an audio “LingQuery” and DM it to @lingquery_pod on Instagram OR email us at lingquery.pod@gmail.com

Do you know what your first word was? Do you remember a time before you acquired language? Why do some of us shout out “Mama!” as our first utterance while others come up with “clock”? In this debut episode, Emily & Aidan are joined by cognitive psychologist Dr. Derek Houston to investigate the nature of words, early linguistic development, and human perception. Thank you to listener Anthony for submitting today’s LingQuery!

Got a burning question about the language & communication sciences that you’d like to see featured on the show? Record an audio “LingQuery” and DM it to @lingquery_pod on Instagram OR email us at lingquery.pod@gmail.com