Current Trends in Dysphagia Intervention
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Reporting to ASHA:
This course is offered for 0.3 ASHA CEUs (3 hours), Intermediate Level, Professional Area
If you wish to have your participation in this course reported to ASHA, you must include your ASHA number when registering for the course. If you do not wish to have your participation submitted to ASHA, type “NO” in the field requesting your ASHA number. Once the course post-test has been completed your material will be ready for us to submit. We submit participation to the ASHA CE Registry within 45 days of the last date of the quarterly offering. You must complete the post-test no later than 12/31/2020 11:59 pm (EST) to receive credit for participating in this course in 2020.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the physiological components of swallowing
- Enumerate the various dysfunctions of the swallow
- List common compensatory techniques and their application
- Discuss adaptation to a dysfunctional swallow
- Display knowledge of the development of aspiration pneumonia
- Apply neuroplastic principles to practice of dysphagia therapy
- Describe the difference between interventions to improve strength verses motor planning
- Apply indirect and direct dysphagia exercises into practice
Agenda:
- Physiological components of swallowing (15 minutes)
- Areas of dysfunction (15 minutes)
- Compensatory interventions (15 minutes)
- Adaptations (15 minutes)
- The quandary of aspiration pneumonia (15 minutes)
- Neuroplastic Principles (20 minutes)
- Exercise Fundamentals (15 minutes)
- Swallowing Exercises: Indirect Exercises (IOPI, MOST, CTAR, Masako)
- Swallowing Exercises: Direct Exercises (Effortful Swallow, Mendelsohn Maneuver, sEMG, Electrical Stimulation)
- Summary, Q and A
Instructor Disclosure:
Ed Bice has the following financial relationship. He is a paid employee of the Accelerated Care Plus. Ed Bice has no non-financial relationships to disclose.
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