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2.00pm – 5.30pm (including Afternoon tea)
SM1
– Critical thinking in dysphagia
management
Professor Emily Plowman, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Speech-language therapists are the primary providers of services
to people with dysphagia and report spending the majority of their
practice managing swallowing disorders in their healthcare settings.
However, formal and informal training on normal and impaired
swallowing for speech-language therapists is lacking and inconsistent
across academic and clinical training domains. Critical thinking in
dysphagia management is needed to significantly shift practice
patterns. The overall goals of this masterclass are for attendees to leave
with the ability to apply objective physiologic metrics, to utilise a clinical
decision tree, and to empower attendees with critical talking points to
advocate for resources for patients with dysphagia.
Specific topics will include a brief discussion of the following:
• Elucidating inconsistencies in dysphagia management
• Introduction to Clinical Decision Making Tree templates to manage
and track long-term effectiveness of your clinical decisions
• Supporting your clinical decisions with physiologically guided
metrics
• Applying principles of motor learning and neuroplasticity to
dysphagia rehabilitation
• What a patient needs – Educating physicians, nurses and other
medical professions to advocate for our profession and patients
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify inconsistencies in clinical decision making for traditional
and emerging treatment techniques of dysphagia
2. Identify a set of objective evidenced-based clinical screening tools
3. Describe a set of objective validated instrumental clinical
outcomes
4. Learn how to apply objective metric based measures to establish a
diagnostic baseline and treatment gains in dysphagia management
5. Learn to create and use a physiologically guided clinical decision
tree to incorporate into your everyday practice
Requisites for registrants:
• Intermediate
• Background of normal swallowing physiology and dysphagia
treatment
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