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How Pediatric Medications Impact Speech and Swallow

July 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.
Drug-induced neurological disorders can challenge the efficiency of clinical evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment. This resource provides a list of pediatric medications and associated speech and swallow complications.
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The Importance of Lab Values for Clinical Swallow Assessments

July 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.
Lab values are essential to our clinical swallow evaluation process as speech-language pathologists. This resource discusses the importance of knowing our patients’ lab values and provides a chart with possible effects of abnormal pediatric lab values on matters that pertain to feeding and swallowing.
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Speaking Valves in Pediatric Speech Therapy

July 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource offers information about what speaking valves are and how to place them. A few tips are offered on how to introduce them to children when starting to address voicing and swallowing goals.
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Speech and Phonological Characteristics of Individual Children With a History of Tracheostomy (1999)

July 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.
It is well-known that children who have undergone long-term tracheostomy are at risk for developmental delays, including speech delay. This study took a deeper dive to analyze the specific speech production patterns and phonological skills of six participants, aged 2 to 6 years. Each child had undergone tracheostomy before age 8 months for a variety […]
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Dysphagia, voice problems, and pain in head and neck cancer patients (2021)

July 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.
HNC treatment can cause devastating physical and emotional side effects and impact the QoL for people with HNC. The authors of this study wanted to explore the prevalence of dysphagia, voice problems, and pain for a larger group of individuals with HNC. Specifically, they looked at their sociodemographic, behavioral, and clinical factors. In addition, they […]
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Auditory training changes temporal lobe connectivity in ‘Wernicke’s aphasia’: a randomised trial (2017)

July 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.
Damage to the dominant temporoparietal cortex, causing Wernicke’s or global aphasia, can resist conventional treatment methods. There is a deficit in auditory phonological analysis for Wernicke’s aphasia. Therapy often involves auditory discrimination training with phonemes, consonant-vowel-consonant segments, or longer sound sequences. There has been limited research for individuals with moderate to severe Wernicke’s aphasia because […]
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Resource Roadmap Show – Pediatric SLP – #05

June 9, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.
This course covers: Pack My Backpack! Executive Functioning Activity for Young Kids, Hidden Picture Activity Targeting Velars and Affricates, How Pediatric Medications Impact Speech and Swallow, The Importance of Lab Values for Clinical Swallow Assessments, Speaking Valves in Pediatric Speech Therapy.
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Resource Roadmap Show – Adult SLP – #05

June 9, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.
This course covers how to use the following resources from the Therapy Insights library: IDDSI Level 7 (Regular Easy to Chew), The Role of Speech Therapy with Head and Neck Cancer, Glossary of Terminology in Chest X-Rays Reports for the SLP, Videofluoroscopic Swallow Study (VFSS) Presentation Checklist and Notes, and the Treatment of Wernicke’s Aphasia.
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Kawa Model

June 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.
This therapy material uses the Kawa Model as an intervention in order to educate about the role of occupational therapy, and help with goal setting and motivation.
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