-: Megan Murray, and I am a medical
speech-language pathologist.
Some patients aren't aware of their deficit,
so I might probe a little bit more,
oh, can you tell me what day it is, the year,
why are you here?
Any coughing or choking when you eat or drink?
And all the while, I'm assessing their voice to see,
is there any abnormality there?
They may have been in the hospital and have had,
have been intubated, so that'll leave their voice
a little breathy or hoarse.
So that's all things that I'm assessing
while they're giving me this feedback about
how they're doing.
Same with their speech and their language skills.
I can tell pretty instantly how their speech
and their language are doing
when I'm going in and having this dialogue with them.