Swallow the Gap

About Swallow the Gap

A pivotal podcast on a mission to improve medical intervention for patients with swallowing disorders (dysphagia). Primarily intended for medical speech-language pathologists (SLP) and also relevant for professionals and students involved in pulmonology, otolaryngology, gerontology, nutrition, rehabilitation sciences, and various other areas of healthcare. Join us as a force for change by inspiring critical thinking, facilitating discussion, and stimulating professional development for those involved in the evaluation and treatment of patients with aerodigestive disorders. https://www.swallowthegap.com (Gap Education, LLC)

Publisher

Tim Stockdale, SLPD, CCC-SLP

Category

education · health & fitness · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Jan 2024

Latest episode

2 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

37 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   2 Aug 2026

   Diagnose and adios? Stay a while longer, my friend.

   Diagnose, stabilize, and move on to the next chart. That's a common model in acute care, but it's the one this team walked away from. One patient sat trached, decannulated, retrached, and off food, stuck until his care team decided the plan wasn't working and changed it. Three days later he was doing seventy-five to a hundred swallows a session. Four weeks after that, he was eating regular food, off the trach, and walking home. That case was one piece of a bigger shift. The SLP team at Johns ...

2. 

   20 Apr 2026

   Demonstrate, Advocate: Bring Your Value to Multidisciplinary Settings

   What does it look like to bring value as a speech-language pathologist when productivity demands are real and time is limited? In this episode, I talk with Jaimie Anderson, SLP and clinical researcher at one of the nation’s first multidisciplinary swallowing centers. We get into what this looks like in practice. Not in ideal settings, but in the day-to-day. Hallway conversations. Documentation that answers questions before they’re asked. Building relationships with the right people over time....

3. 

   11 Mar 2026

   What You May Have Missed in Grad School: Building Clinical Competency

   Why do so many clinicians feel underprepared when they first begin treating dysphagia? Dr. Jordan Hazelwood and I discuss the growing shift toward competency-based education in speech-language pathology. We dive into the challenges students face when transitioning from theory to clinical decision making, the importance of mentorship and critical thinking, and how simulation and structured training may help bridge the education-to-practice gap. Gap Education: https://swallowthegap.com Instagr...

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

1,112,606,729

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

20 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

17 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 58 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

45

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

82

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