The difficult decision to recommend non-oral feeding to clients with severe swallowing deficits often falls to the speech-language pathologist. Like most medical professionals, we’ve been trained to intervene – to “do something” – and in…
Speech-language pathologists are faced with a great deal of information about swallow interventions. This information comes to us from a wide variety of sources – websites, journals, blogs, and other clinicians – and can often…
Several years ago, I had an experience that substantially shaped my view of the clinical swallow evaluation. I’d been called to complete a swallow evaluation for a woman before her discharge that day. Her physician…
