Sydney National Conference 2017

Private practice Workshop and Masterclass presentations Sunday 28 May Mast rcl ss presentation

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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