Description

Dysphagia: From Assessment to Discharge with Meghan Schaufele

• Cranial nerve impact on assessment and treatment
• Diagnostics and thorough chart reviews
• Medications and lab values
• Clinical and instrument assessment techniques
• Provide therapy on a budget
• Retrain the brain to swallow
• Therapeutic tools to increase exercise-based therapy

During this seminar you will learn functional assessment techniques and discover how the cranial nerves drive both assessment and treatment. Join national speaker and dysphagia expert, Meghan Schaufele, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, as she teaches you practical, functional and affordable strategies and techniques that can be immediately incorporated into your workday. Learn the latest, most effective techniques and exercises, including:

• Pharyngeal exercises
• Exercise-based therapy
• Oral manipulation
• Effortful swallow
• Using the bolus as resistance

Take home affordable alternative treatment tools and assessment techniques.

Muscle-based exercise is emphasized throughout the course, along with ideas you can utilize the next day!

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