Discovering that a loved one has survived a stroke brings a massive wave of relief. But that relief is often quickly followed by a wave of confusion—especially if the doctor looks at you and says, “They are experiencing aphasia.” Suddenly, you’re thrust into a world of medical jargon, trying to figure out why your fiercely independent parent or spouse is looking at a coffee mug, knows exactly what it is, but can only find the word "elephant" to describe it. If you are current

Picture this: It’s 4:30 PM on a Thursday. You’ve just clicked "Leave Meeting" on your seventh Zoom call of the day. You go to say goodbye to your dog, but instead of your normal voice, out comes a raspy, strained croak that sounds less like a human being and more like a tired pirate. Your throat feels scratchy, your neck is tight, and speaking feels like lifting weights with your vocal cords. If your voice feels absolutely exhausted by the end of the workweek, you aren't imag

Let’s be honest, being a parent is basically living in a front row seat at a rock concert where the lead singer is a threenager who just found out the crust was left on their sandwich. Between the playground shrieks, the "I'm not tired!" roars, and the high pitched dinosaur impressions, our kids’ vocal folds are the hardest working muscles in the house. As a voice specialized Speech Language Pathologist (SLP), I spend my days looking at vocal folds and working with people who