Editor’s Note: This text-based course is a transcript of the webinar, Traditional Treatments for Swallowing Disorders: What We Know; What We Don’t, presented by Tammy Wigginton, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S.
Introduction and Disclosures
Today, we're going to discuss traditional treatments for swallowing disorders, what we know, and what we don't. In spite of improved understanding of swallowing and swallowing dysfunction, treatment strategies are often based on expert opinion, rather than best evidence-based practice. Hopefully, this session will shed some light on current evidence-based treatment strategies and help us understand the limitations of best available research. We can’t do things the same way simply because we have always done them that way.
Here are my financial disclosures. My salary is paid by the University of Kentucky, and I am receiving an honorarium from SpeechPathology.com. Non-financial disclosures are that I am a member of the American Board of Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders.
Learning Outcomes
Our learner outcomes for this course include the following:
- State one anticipated positive outcome associated with diet modification and one potentially negative outcome associated with diet modification
- State one anticipated positive outcome associated with use of compensatory swallowing strategies and one potentially negative outcome associated with use of compensatory swallowing strategies
- Describe two patient populations with evidence-based indications for enteral nutritional support
