{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Inside SLP","title":"11: There Was Money Around","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":769,"description":"In the early 1960s, SLP leaders described trips to Capitol Hill as terrifying, migraine-inducing encounters with a world they didn’t yet understand. A few decades later, the profession had built enough political infrastructure to partner with McDonald’s and influence federal definitions of disability.\nThis episode traces how speech-language pathology moved from academic outsider to institutional insider and what was gained, lost, and locked into place along the way.\nWe explore:\nHow federal rehabilitation funding after WWII and Vietnam reshaped who counted as a “qualified provider.”\nThe quiet fight to keep language from being absorbed into the definition of Specific Learning Disability and why that boundary still causes friction today.\nHow the CCC shifted from a professional marker to a billable requirement in Medicare and Medicaid.\nWhat it actually takes, organizationally, to put accessibility tools into 8,700 restaurants nationwide.\nSources:\nMalone, R. (1999). The first 75 years: An oral history of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.\nConnect:\nContact Megan: therapyinsights.com/insideslp\nPACT Survey: pactsurvey.com","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Uwvc3YpXBq3-mZroiH9iArBS1kVLj8rLaayQr8ctqvc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81YzE4/YzFiYTRlNGVjNTZj/ODA1MzIwOTg5Y2Q0/YWNjOS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}