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Welcome to the Speech, Language, and Therapy Podcast, a podcast committed to promoting a positive mental space for individuals with communication challenges and the community that supports them — including friends, caregivers, clinicians, and researchers. Our conversations center on the cognitive, developmental, and emotional aspects of communication disorders, seeking better paths to holistic wellness and fostering effective communication for everyone involved

Rising above stigma one stutter at a time

Lydia Denworth presents insights from studies of everything from at-risk kids in Head Start to noisy cocktail party conversation, from songbirds to signal processing, and from the invention of the telephone to sign language. Weaving together tales from the centuries-long quest to develop the cochlear implant and simultaneous leaps in neuroscientific knowledge against a tumultuous backdrop of identity politics, I Can Hear You Whisper shows how sound sculpts our children’s brains and the life changing consequences of that delicate process.