Hallie Bulkin argues that speech and airway therapists should intervene earlier, performing surgeries like jaw or nasal procedures before problems take hold, rather than waiting for adults to struggle later. She pushes back against outdated protocols, saying clinicians need to be willing to break the rules when it serves patients better.
And I feel like one of the consistent things in my career, and I know that you are as well, if I may use this word, we are disruptors. Yeah. We're disrupting the status quo, and we're not going to accept that, like, we're not gonna address these things. Like, these things deserve to be looked at so we don't become adults who are struggling with things that we don't need to struggle with, or having to get jaw surgeries, or having to get nasal surgery, right? Exactly. Yes. Yes. So all these things that, like, why would we not do these things earlier? And I've just, yeah, consistently in my career through all of the different specialties I've navigated, I'm okay being the one that does things differently because I'm not gonna accept that we're just gonna follow a standard. Yeah. I don't really like the rule books.
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