1. List the obstacles of working with patients with dysphagia
2. Discuss the meaning of full disclosure and a patient's right to refusal.
3. Outline the legal implications and malpractice when working with patients with dysphagia.
Application of Ethics in Dysphagia
1. Appraise your own knowledge of various religions and cultures and how that may impact evaluation and treatment across the SLP spectrum of diagnoses.
2. Describe the impact of bias on assumptions and interaction in the therapeutic environment.
3. Formulate rapport building techniques that open communication between client/patient and the clinician.
Digesting Diversity in the Case of Dysphagia
Michelle Dehgan, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
Acknowledging the impact of bias on the quality of clinical practice: Starting the Dialogue
Jill Davis, CCC-SLP
1. Identify opportunities to collaborate with Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy to further your treatment of patients with dysphagia.
2. Understand positioning, breath support, sensory regulation, and self-feeding strategies to implement during speech therapy treatment of patients with dysphagia.
3. Learner will be able to identify the role of the SLP in the screening, differential diagnosis, and identification of esophageal dysphagia.
4. Learner will outline different techniques in evaluation esophageal dysphagia and the different diagnosis between motor and structural considerations.
5. Learner will be able to apply learning objects to case studies.
Esophageal Dysphagia
Jesus Santibanez, MBA, MA, CCC-SLP
Collaborating with Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy in the Management of Dysphagia (Pediatric and Adult Considerations)
Chiara Phan, MS, CCC-SLP
Tin "Tim" Phan, PT, DPT
Beena Kalathoor, OT