Notes to accompany Episode 1:
All the following links are simply examples, and not meant to be exhaustive or even the ‘best’ resources on these topics. They’re our personal preferences and/or what we’ve happened to encounter in our own worlds. So say ‘hello’ to our biases:
What’s an SLP?
What’s an audiologist?
On Bias:
On experts, and current trends of dismissing expertise (and why people may be driven to do so):
Note from Meredith: As you read these books, make sure you’re processing the message from as many perspectives as you possibly can. All these books have bias, even though they’re also very good. The easiest way to do this can be by reading things twice—once as yourself, and once imagining that you’re someone else entirely (e.g. your next-door neighbor ‘Joe’; what would Joe think?) You may start to notice things you hadn’t before. For example, why the word ‘laypeople’ can be problematic. Or, with Demon-Haunted World, why some people find the book to come across as elitist and out of touch, even though it’s beloved by science-lovers.
On social media trolling:
Swallowing links:
Critical Thinking in Dysphagia Management content can be found on the Swallowing Training and Education Portal.
Resources on the 5 WHYs:
What’s an SLP?
What’s an audiologist?
On Bias:
On experts, and current trends of dismissing expertise (and why people may be driven to do so):
- Why experts can be more frustrating than non-experts, here.
- How US politics are intertwining with concepts of expertise, here.
- This link was actually shared post-recording by our colleague, Will. Worth the read.
- Death of Expertise (and a review of it)
- The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
- The Meritocracy Trap (and a review of it)
Note from Meredith: As you read these books, make sure you’re processing the message from as many perspectives as you possibly can. All these books have bias, even though they’re also very good. The easiest way to do this can be by reading things twice—once as yourself, and once imagining that you’re someone else entirely (e.g. your next-door neighbor ‘Joe’; what would Joe think?) You may start to notice things you hadn’t before. For example, why the word ‘laypeople’ can be problematic. Or, with Demon-Haunted World, why some people find the book to come across as elitist and out of touch, even though it’s beloved by science-lovers.
On social media trolling:
Swallowing links:
- Washington post says: “Problems swallowing are a big killer but the treatment can be horrible”
- Plowman and Humbert suggest: Elucidating inconsistencies in dysphagia diagnostics: Redefining normal
- Vose and Humbert conducted: A Survey of Clinician Decision Making When Identifying Swallowing Impairments and Determining Treatment
- Langmore and Pisegna report: Efficacy of exercises to rehabilitate dysphagia: A critique of the literature
- Rosenbek lights up: Efficacy in Dysphagia
- Campbell-Taylor sips tea: Oropharyngeal dysphagia in long-term care: misperceptions of treatment efficacy
Critical Thinking in Dysphagia Management content can be found on the Swallowing Training and Education Portal.
Resources on the 5 WHYs: