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Digital Seminar

Pediatric Dysphagia: Establishing the Brain-Mouth-Gut Connection

Faculty:
Michelle M. Dawson, MS, CCC-SLP
Duration:
5 Hours 59 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Oct 03, 2017
Product Code:
WDS020678
Brochure Code:
PTPDYS
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
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Description

For most, the ability to eat with peers in the school cafeteria, or participate in family dinners is a given. However, a significant subset of the population is unable to safely and independently participate in communal mealtime due to oropharyngeal dysphagia. It is crucial that clinicians to be knowledgeable and comfortable with the intricacies of their young patients’ conditions in order to maximize the effectiveness of treatment. This requires a detailed understanding of the Brain-Mouth-Gut connection and the impact common pediatric disorders have on it.  Ultimately, it is the clinicians’ goal to establish these connections, and to help patients live up to their fullest potential

This recording is designed to educate attendees on the ins and outs of the Brain-Mouth-Gut connection, what leads to breakdowns in this system, and how these breakdowns can result in oropharyngeal dysphagia. Learn interventions unique to the needs of their medically fragile and complex pediatric patients from birth into early childhood.

Credits

Handouts

File type File name Number of pages
PDF Course Manual_Pediatric Dysphagia: Establishing the Brain-Mouth-Gut Connection (10.66 MB) Available after Purchase
PDF Instructions for ASHA Credit - SELF STUDY ONLY - 06/12/18 (0.03 MB) Available after Purchase

Faculty

Michelle M. Dawson, MS, CCC-SLP Related seminars and products

MICHELLE L. W. DAWSON, MS, CCC-SLP, has worked as an SLP for over 10 years in a variety of settings. She has served in public schools, in-patient and out-patient rehabilitative hospitals, as well as having spent many years in early intervention.  She specializes in treating medically fragile pediatric patients with oropharyngeal dysphagia and feeding disorders.  Michelle is currently President-elect of the South Carolina Speech Hearing Association (SCSHA) in addition to being their Vice President of Governmental Affairs. She runs her own private practice, HeartWood Speech Therapy, and guest lectures throughout South Carolina on a variety of topics, including dysphagia management for infantile spasms and sensory integration from an SLP’s perspective.  She is currently working on her BCS-S licensure. Michelle earned her MS in Communicative Sciences and Disorders from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA.  Treating feeding and swallowing disorders across the life span is her first love as an SLP.  

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Program Information

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive) Access never expires for this product.

Outline

Survey of the Brain-Mouth-Gut connection

  •  Foray into respiration.

Typical reflex development

  • Nutritive suck
  •  Mastication
  • Progression of bolus viscosity

Medically fragile caseload

  • How specific diagnoses and treatments can lead to oropharyngeal dysphagia
    • When to make referrals to specialists

Alternatives to PO (by mouth feeding)

  • Types, locations, implications
  • Disruption to digestion process and nourishment

Intervention

  •  Approaches focused on patient access to ADLs
    • Special consideration for cultural factors and socioeconomic barriers.

Case Studies

  • 2 year old referred for significant language delays
    • Result of severe acid reflux
  • 2 week old healthy, full term referred after a grade 2 bleed
    • Treated with a VP shunt      
    • Transition from nutritive suck to soft purees and semisolids after 9 months
  • 5 year-old with autism and Digeorges anomaly
    • Tube fed from 3 months, post-cardiac surgery
    • Non-verbal to verbal
      • Significant underlying GI issues had to be addressed before PO trials
      • Communication with family and physicians establishing realistic therapy goals
  • Case Studies from Audience

Objectives

  1. List typical development and sequence of respiration, swallowing, and digestion
  2. State the typical development of reflexes related to mastication and swallowing
  3. Discuss 4 common pediatric medical diagnoses that lead to dysphagia
  4. Describe types of feeding tubes and their impacts on the normal Brain-Mouth-Gut connection
  5. Examine 5 therapeutic interventions to help re-establish the Brain-Mouth-Gut connection
  6. Develop functional feeding strategies that are SES (socio-economic-status) friendly

Target Audience

Speech-Language Pathologists, Speech Language Pathology Assistants, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Pediatric Nurses, Educators, Dieticians, Case Managers, Nurse Practitioners

Reviews

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Overall:      4.5

Total Reviews: 40

Comments

Dawn M - Harding, Pennsylvania

"Excellent course and presentation!!"

Barbara C - Poulsbo, Washington

"Michelle Dawson is was excellent! She is obviously very passionate and knowledgeable about her subject. Her use of real case examples was a highly effective way to functionally illustrate the information she was presenting. She takes a lot of excellent information and presents it in a manner that supports learning and functional application. An excellent course."

Julie B - BROGUE, Pennsylvania

"Awesome course and speaker! Very engaging and applicable to practice."

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