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Dysphagia exercise and strategies are key to helping our patients safely and efficiently swallow. But there are so many to choose from: where should one start?
Right here! Read this article for actionable, easy-to-use charts and free PDFs to guide your dysphagia treatment plan.
Feel free to download and print the reference charts and PDFs....
Here’s a common scenario many of us speech therapy professionals find ourselves in: our motor speech patients are making good gains in session! Their strategies work and they sound great.
But then you chat with their loved ones who say, “I can’t understand them at home.” Or your patient reveals that they feel isolated when their friends nod when they speak, but don’...
When the muscles used for speaking are weak, slow, or discoordinated, intelligibility suffers. A common cause of these symptoms is dysarthria (Duffy, 2013).
To increase intelligibility, you can strengthen the speaking muscles. One treatment program that targets muscle strength is Be Clear.
In this article, you’ll learn about what the Be Cl...
Dysarthria speech therapy is often deeply meaningful for our patients—and fun for us!
We teach our patients strategies to make them more intelligible and able to engage with their loved ones. We use the principles of motor learning to help them communicate their wants, needs, thoughts, and feelings. And we do this from the most severe flaccid dysarthria to the milde...
Self-awareness, or metacognition, helps patients recognize when they may need help. Lack of self-awareness, on the other hand, can lead to errors, frustration, and important tasks left undone.
Self-awareness, in this context, means one’s ability to recognize one’s cognitive strengths, weaknesses, and recent changes in each. Impaired self-awareness is common in patie...