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Michelle Cimoli is a speech pathologist who has been working in the area of adult dysphagia since 2000, and currently works at Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria. She is also a Masters by Research candidate, enrolled at La Trobe University. Joanne Sweeney is the manager of the speech pathology service at Austin Hospital and Heidelberg Repatriation Hospitals in Melbourne, Victoria. She has a longstanding interest in safety, quality, and risk and concepts of clinical governance as they apply to the speech pathology profession. Worthington, H. V., Clarkson, J. E., Bryan, G., Furness, S., Glenny, A-M., Littlewood, A., … & Khalid, T. (2010). Interventions for preventing oral mucositis for patients with cancer receiving treatment. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2010, Issue 12. Art. No.: CD000978. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD000978.pub4 Tensilon application in diagnosis and therapy of myasthenia gravis. [Case Reports]. Journal of Neurology , 255 (2), 224–230. doi: 10.1007/s00415-008-0664-6 Wooi, M., Scott, A., & Perry, A. (2001). Teaching speech pathology students the interpretation of videofluoroscopic swallowing studies. Dysphagia , 16 (1), 32–39. doi: 10.1007/s004550000040 Wu, C-H., Hsiao, T-Y., Ko, J-Y. & Hsu, M-M. (2000). Dysphagia after radiotherapy: Endoscopic examination of swallowing in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology , 109 (3), 320–325.

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Correspondence to: Michelle Cimoli email: michelle.cimoli@austin.org.au phone: +61 (0)3 9496 2231

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JCPSLP Volume 14, Number 1 2012

Journal of Clinical Practice in Speech-Language Pathology