A Watched Pot Never Boils: Why Observing Swallowing is Unsuccessful and Risky
“A watched pot never boils.” We have all heard that expression, right? It refers to that feeling that time goes very slowly when you are anxiously waiting for something to happen. We all know watching...
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Supporting Infants With Visual Impairment With Feeding
We will discuss the developmental characteristics of children with visual impairments and specifically how these children develop trust in the feeding relationship. Strategies for breast and bottle...
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20Q: Being Brave - How to Overcome Selective Mutism
Shy, as defined by Google, is “being reserved or having or showing nervousness or timidity in the company of other people.” Shyness, as defined by Wikipedia, is “the feeling of apprehension, lack of...
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Back to Basics: Goal Writing for School-based SLPs
In this course, I am going to discuss goal writing. You probably won’t hear anything that you haven’t already heard. My hope is that it will help us regroup and do what’s best for our students and...
View ArticleCommunication and Independence for the Young Adult with Autism
To create a common ground, the new DSM has just one diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with three levels of ASD. Level 1 includes individuals who need the least amount of support and can also...
View ArticleBack to Basics: Swallow Screening: How, when, and who,
Let's first define an assessment. We typically want our assessment to be consistent with the World Health Organization (WHO) framework, which addresses three levels of assessment. You are probably...
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20Q: Dementia - Evidence-Based Strategies for Quality of Life Interventions
Dementia is a general term that is used to refer to a variety of conditions that result in a progressive decline in an individual’s cognitive functions. Dementia can affect memory, judgment,...
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Stress, Trauma and Mindfulness: Self-Care for Healthcare Professionals
Stress is a state of mental or emotional strain and tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances. Being stressed is not a normal state, even though it may feel like it in today's world.
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Sustaining the Well-Being of Healthcare Workers During Coronavirus
The coronavirus (COVID-19) is presenting new and unique challenges. We are navigating unchartered waters with this virus, making it important to find new ways to work and interact while also taking...
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20Q: Focusing on Academic Language in Preparing Preschoolers with Foundations...
We all know that children need to develop oral language skills before they are able to learn to read. Oral language development occurs when the child is exposed to casual talk (CT) in the environment....
View ArticleBack to Basics: Applying Clinical Reasoning to the Clinical Swallow Assessment
I am thrilled to be talking about clinical assessment because this is one of my favorite topics. This course will help you apply some actual clinical reasoning to the clinical assessment process. I am...
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Research Watch Report: Evidence-Based Treatment Approaches for Acquired...
Acquired apraxia of speech (AOS) is a motor speech disorder that results in decreased intelligibility and impaired prosody. Specifically, AOS results from damage to the motor planning and programming...
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Role of the Speech-Language Pathologist in the Healthcare Triple Aim
I'm really excited to talk about a topic that most people ask what the Triple Aim is and how does it apply to us? A friend actually asked why I like to speak on such a boring topic and that stuck with...
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20Q: Goal and Treatment Selection in Aphasia in 20 Sessions or Less
In this article, Dr. Hinckley will discuss Goal Attainment Scaling and provide examples of activity-focused therapy goals. She will then describe characteristics of activity-focused therapy. Finally,...
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Back to Basics: Guidelines for Management of Communication in Rett Syndrome
I am happy to see this great interest in Rett syndrome, which is a topic I have spent about 20 years working on. I want to begin by giving a brief overview of Rett syndrome because you most likely do...
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Helping Adolescents Navigate Mental Health and Social Thinking Challenges
Today, I will be discussing how we can better help adolescents navigate mental health and social thinking challenges. As a member of the NEST program for the last eight years, I have noticed over and...
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20Q: Bilingual Service Delivery: Where Do I Start?
Did you know that, unlike most other countries, the United States does not have an official language? It’s true. Although the most commonly spoken language in the United States is English, our country...
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Using Nonstandardized Assessment to Evaluate Cognitive-Communication...
Most of this course could very easily apply to any type of acquired brain injury, including both traumatic and nontraumatic injuries. However, some of the statistics on incidence and prevalence I will...
View ArticleDiagnosis Dementia: Working with Patients with Dementia in Home Care under PDGM
5.8 million Americans were diagnosed with Alzheimer's or other dementias in 2019. Dementia is not going away any time soon and there will be a continued need for us to work with these individuals. $290...
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20Q: Modern Hearing Aids - A Primer for Speech-Language Pathologists
According to the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), approximately 15% of American adults (about 37.5 million) report some difficulty hearing and about 28.8...
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