ASHA What Have You Done For Me Lately?
ASHA... What are you doing for your membership? For quality improvement of dysphagia management? This is a common question among ASHA members. In this installment of Down the Hatch (The Swallowing Pod...
20 Mai 201948min
The Swallowing Physiology Series: Base of Tongue Retraction
Recently, an overwhelming 92% of clinicians responded “NO” to the question: Did you feel prepared to assess and treat swallowing disorders upon graduation (Plowman & Humbert 2018). 45% of SLP survey r...
20 Mar 201957min
The Swallowing Physiology Series: Oral Preparation
Recently, an overwhelming 92% of clinicians responded “NO” to the question: Did you feel prepared to assess and treat swallowing disorders upon graduation (Plowman & Humbert 2018). 45% of SLP survey r...
1 Feb 201954min
Tell Me What To Do!
Do you think we need more swallowing therapies? Do you hand out a standard list of therapy worksheets for many of your patients with swallowing problems? Have you ever thought "Tell me what to do!" wh...
13 Des 201847min
12 Step Plan for Competence in Dysphagia Management: Acceptance
The data are abysmal! In a recent publication, partly authored by Down the Hatch Hosts Alicia Vose and Ianessa Humbert, we reveal that SLP identification of swallowing impairments is poor to moderate....
12 Nov 20181h 8min
INTO the Mouth of Babes: A Pediatric Dysphagia Primer
To address feeding and swallowing impairments in the pediatric population, one requires highly specialized knowledge. Still, pediatric dysphagia is extremely understudied and underfunded and SLP clini...
2 Okt 201843min
Gender Bias in Communication Sciences & Disorders
The field of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) faces a critical shortage of the faculty essential to train the future workforce of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists. Despite a pre...
9 Aug 201857min
