Christina Goodheart SLP

01/06/2026

Yes ! Since 2021

12/06/2025

Depression is illness, support is the best thing we can provide for others. Empathy is so important. Research is even more important. Depression and Su***de is on the rise among young people and we need to know why.

11/22/2025

11/12/2025

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A 29 year-old woman presented with 1-week history of an itchy throat and cough. She reported having consumed raw carp 3 weeks earlier. The physical examination revealed hyperemia of the oral mucosa. Fiber-optic laryngoscopy showed a living parasite measuring 2 mm by 4 mm on the surface of the left arytenoid laryngeal mucosa, with its head attached to the mucosa by suckers (see video). The organism was removed with the use of a fiber clamp and was identified as an adult liver fluke

11/09/2025

10/22/2025

I love seeing functional individualized goals for patients!

08/12/2025

Thank you Bobby Ghaheri MD

The Importance of Education

Over the last week, I have gotten several emails from parents describing very avoidable but quite serious complications from a tongue tie release. I am entering my 13th year in treating these ties and I am still amazed that people who are doing this procedure. do not understand basic concepts of how to do it correctly. Many people come to my office and think that I am some sort of tongue tie Messiah, only to recognize that what I am doing is very simple, but has to follow very specific goals.

Over time, I have become increasingly less diplomatic when I have to interact with these providers to let them know what they have done. In almost every case, it is very clear that they have no formal training in the procedure. One of these complications was from an ENT with a pair of scissors. One was from a supposed tongue tie expert in his community who was a dentist using a laser. In each case, these problems occur because of a lack of basic understanding of surgical principles and of the underlying physiology of what the tongue is supposed to be doing. I am tired. I am tired of having to explain to parents why this occurred. I am even more tired that 13 years into this, people are making the same mistakes.

I do not care how experienced you think you are. For almost all of you, you have more to learn. How do I know that? Because I am still learning. This is not meant to be some advertisement for my course, but I cannot help but shake my head, knowing that what is in my course would've prevented both of these complications. These courses will not be around forever because of my personal goals to just be in my garden and tend to my crops. Seriously, take the course and learn.

https://reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page.aspx?ek=0078-0031-6EE53EC166354A5CBFCAC265115ABCE5

08/01/2025

Great video that highlights the impact of thumb sucking