How Do You Choose The Right Dysphagia Treatment?? 

There are dozens of dysphagia treatment options SLPs can implement, but HOW does an SLP actually choose the right treatment?
One of the most fulfilling moments a med SLP can experience is watching or hearing about their patient finally eating their favorite snacks or meals with loved ones once again.
But in order to get our patients there, we need to know how to create the best dysphagia treatment plan for that person and their specific deficits, and I’m going to talk about three important considerations SLPs should make when building out their dysphagia treatment plans.
Watch and Enjoy!
Theresa Richard
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KEY MOMENTS IN THE EPISODE:
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00:00 - How Do You Choose The Right Dysphagia Treatment
00:51 - Find Out What’s Impaired
01:02 - Modified Barium Swallow Study
01:18 - Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation
02:13 - Look for the Following…
03:40 - Assess Strategies Under Instrumentation
05:13 - Learn Which Exercises Target Which Muscles…
WHAT TO WATCH NEXT:
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Thee Cost of Dysphagia: • The Cost of Dysphagia
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CITED ARTICLES:
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ASHA Practice Portal (n.d.). Adult Dysphagia. American Speech-Language and Hearing Association. Retrieved at www.asha.org/practice-portal/...
Bahia, M.M. & Lowell, S.Y. (2019). A Systematic Review of the Physiological Effects of the Effortful Swallow Maneuver in Adults with Normal and Disordered Swallowing. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 29(3), 1655-1673. doi.org/10.1044/2020_AJSLP-19...
Robbins, J., Butler, S. G., Daniels, S. K., Diez Gross, R., Langmore, S., Lazarus, C. L., Martin-Harris, B., McCabe, D., Musson, N., & Rosenbek, J. (2008). Swallowing and dysphagia rehabilitation: translating principles of neural plasticity into clinically oriented evidence. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR, 51(1), S276-S300. doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(200...)
Park, J. S., & Hwang, N. K. (2021). Chin tuck against resistance exercise for dysphagia rehabilitation: A systematic review. Journal of oral rehabilitation, 48(8), 968-977. doi.org/10.1111/joor.13181
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ABOUT THERESA RICHARD::
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Theresa Richard, a medical speech pathologist for 15+ years, is a board certified specialist in swallowing and swallowing disorders, and the founder and CEO of the MedSLP Collective and MedSLP Education. Theresa is also the mother of a son with severe disabilities who humbles her daily and is the inspiration behind all of the work she does in the world.
Theresa, host of Swallow Your Pride Podcast, has over 3 million unique downloads, and her book “So You’re Having Trouble Swallowing'' is an Amazon and Barnes and Noble best seller.
Theresa Richard, M.A. CCC-SLP, BCS-S - Medical Speech Language Pathologist
www.TheresaRichard.com/
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