Airway Answers with Nicole Goldfarb: Expanding Your Breath of Knowledge
Nicole Goldfarb is a Speech-Language Pathologist, Certified Orofacial Myologist, and airway advocate, providing education and guidance to patients and professionals through the Airway Answers platform. In "Airway Answers with Nicole Goldfarb: Expanding Your Breath of Knowledge", Nicole Goldfarb interviews the top professionals in the realm of sleep and airway in order to get all of our questions answered. This series is for both professionals and those interested in sleep and airway issues. The mission of this interview series is to help treat and prevent airway issues for all!
Airway Answers with Nicole Goldfarb: Expanding Your Breath of Knowledge
Episode 7 of Airway Answers: "The Upper Airway Resistance with Ken Hooks (all about UARS!)"
Welcome to the "Airway Answers: Expanding your Breath of Knowledge". with Nicole Goldfarb, M.A. CCC, SLP- COM®. In this episode, join Nicole as she welcomes a very special guest, the knowledgeable and hilarious founder and owner of True Sleep Diagnostics, Ken Hooks.
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Listen in as they review and discuss topics like:
*“The Upper Airway Resistance!”
*What impacts Airflow
*The Stages of Sleep
*What exactly SDB looks like on sleep studies
*Sleep behaviors like central apnea, sigh breath, nightmares, night terrors, and much more!
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ABOUT OUR GUEST:
Ken Hooks is the Founder/Operator of True Sleep Diagnostics. He is a registered respiratory therapist with 10 years of experience and a registered polysomnographic technologist for adults and pediatrics with 9 years of experience. He is the former sleep medicine representative for Bon Secours St Francis in Greenville, SC and Clinical Director and instructor of the Polysomnographic Technician Course at Greenville Technical College. He co-authored the case report “Rapid Maxillary Expansion and Adenotonsillectomy in 9-Year-Old Twins with Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome: An Interdisciplinary Effort.
For more on Ken and for course information, check out his website at www.truesleepdiagnostics.com
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ABOUT THE HOST:
Nicole Goldfarb, M.A. CCC, SLP- COM® is a Speech-Language Pathologist, Certified Orofacial Myologist, International speaker, author, Ambassador for the Breathe Institute, a Talk Tools educational partner, and she has served on the faculty for the Sleep Education Consortium and the Airway, Sleep, and Pediatrics Pathway (ASAP) program. She has completed over 50 presentations nationally and internationally on orofacial myofunctional therapy as it relates to sleep-disordered breathing in both children and adults. Nicole is the author of the following: 2023 article in Dental Sleep Practice Magazine “Why Every Dentist and Orthodontist Should Have an Orofacial Myofunctional Therapist on Their Team”; 2024 article in Sleep World Magazine for sleep MDs, respiratory technicians, and other sleep specialists titled “How to Restore Proper Rest: How orofacial myofunctional therapy can aid in the treatment of sleep-disordered breathing”; a two-part chapter on orofacial myofunctional therapy in a 2024 medical textbook “Growing Into Breathing Problems: The Collaborative Quest For Lifetime Solutions” with world renowned editors; and a children’s book series “The Adventures of Captain Airway and Mr. Mighty Mouth” helping to bring airway insight to young children, their parents, teachers, and other medical professionals. She serves on the Child Airway Initiative Task Force (CAST), which is a national team of doctors, dentists, and orthodontists developing a universal screening tool for all dentists to use to screen patients for sleep-disordered breathing. Nicole is the owner of San Diego Center For Speech Therapy & Myofunctional Therapy. She currently serves as a mentor and consultant to patients, professionals, and colleagues nationally and internationally in the field of orofacial myofunctional therapy. Nicole’s life-long quest is to help in the early identification and treatment of sleep-disordered breathing and airway issues. For more on Nicole, visit her practice: www.sandiegocenterforspeechtherapy.com. Follow her Facebook: San Diego Center for Speech Therapy.