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Dysphagia Outreach Project

Dysphagia Outreach Project

by | Oct 7, 2022 | News

Karen met Hillary Cooper, MA, CCC-SLP (co-founder of Dysphagia Outreach Project) at ASHA2021. That started SwallowStudy.com’s sponsorship of The Dysphagia Outreach Project – with donations in 2021 and 2022. They are an incredible 100% volunteer-run... Read More
5 Dysphagia Management Tips: Evidence to Implementation

5 Dysphagia Management Tips: Evidence to Implementation

by | Jan 20, 2022 | Aspiration Pneumonia Prevention, aspiration precautions, Dysphagia Evaluation, Dysphagia Management, dysphagia treatment, End-of-Life Decision Making, Ethics and Evidence-Based Practice, Evidence-Based Practice, Oral Care and Aspiration Pneumonia, Oral Hygiene and Aspiration Pneumonia, Oral infection control, Pneumonia

Dysphagia Management: From Evidence to Implementation with B-O-L-U-S By Phyllis M. Palmer, PhD, CCC-SLP & Aaron H. Padilla, MS, CCC-SLP Editor: Karen Sheffler, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S of SwallowStudy.com Introduction & Editor’s Note When I read: “Risk of an... Read More
United States IDDSI Reference Group (USIRG)

United States IDDSI Reference Group (USIRG)

by | Nov 7, 2021 | News

The United States IDDSI Reference Group (USIRG) has been hard at work since 2020. IDDSI is the International Dysphagia Diet Standardization Initiative — a global wave to standardize dysphagia diets for the safety of people with dysphagia. I have been blogging... Read More