148: The One Thing: Access with Julie Fechter MS, CCC-SLP

Buckle up for a wild ride on this week's conversation regarding access to education, tools, resources for speech and language pathologists. Julie is also interested in how this topic connects with why Leigh Ann took a break from podcasting for 9 months. Then we circle back to how paywalls impact who gets access resulting in disparities. Join us on a chaos-driven conversation about barriers to continuing education.

Key Takeaway:

Monetizing information can lead to bias and inequity.

Resources

Links and info graciously provided by PhD student, John Kim on Instagram: @jkim.slp

1. Open Access Research: 

  • DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals and Articles): https://doaj.org/

  • Google scholar (Not all of them are open access, however, those that are will give you a link to the PDF of the articles) 

  • CSDisseminate: https://www.csdisseminate.com/ 

  • PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

2. Open Access Resources:

  • PrAACtical AAC: https://praacticalaac.org/

  • Aphasia Institute: https://www.aphasia.ca/health-care-providers/resources-and-tools/free-resources/

  • Dysphagia cafe: https://dysphagiacafe.com/

Thanks for these great resources, John!

Julie Fechter is an opinionated adult med SLP in Seattle, WA. She has worked in most settings other than outpatient. She loves working with people with Parkinson’s, looking at patients from a holistic sense, and advocating for people who have difficulty advocating for themselves. You can find her on Instagram at julie.365.weekend or making trouble in Facebook groups.

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