MODÜL 1: YETİŞKİN EĞİTİMCİLERİ İÇİN METODOLOJİ VE ARAÇ GELİŞTİRME

Dentist /Dental Hygienist: Evaluates and treats gingival and dental dysfunction and may specialize in prosthetics to improve swallowing. Advice on oral hygiene.

Neonatologist: Identifies infants with swallowing difficulties, refers them for evaluation, orders appropriate therapies, and monitors their progress.

Gastroenterologist: Determines any difficulties with the GI tract; performs diagnostic tests related to the esophageal segment of swallowing; and places feeding tubes if the patient/student needs an alternative to oral feeding.

Neurologist: Diagnoses and treats neurological causes of swallowing problems.

Nursing: Works with the patient/student and caregivers in implementing and maintaining safe swallowing techniques and compensatory or facilitation strategies during meals and when taking medications.

Nutritionist/Dietician: Evaluates nutritional needs; follows therapy recommendations regarding consistencies of liquids and solid foods, determines needs for special diets; and ensures adequate nutrition when using alternative means of nutrition.

Occupational therapist: Evaluates and treats sensory and motor impairments and assesses prosthetic needs related to self-feeding and swallowing.

Otolaryngologist: Diagnoses and treats oral, pharyngeal, laryngeal and tracheal pathologies that may cause or contribute to swallowing problems; cooperates with speech-language pathologists in performing endoscopic evaluations of swallowing.

Pediatrician: Identifies children with swallowing challenges, provides appropriate referrals, and integrates the dysphagia team's recommendations with the child's general health and well-being.

Psychologist/ Psychiatrist: Evaluates and treats patient/students and their families in adjusting to dysphagia disability, in coping with ramifications of swallowing disorders, and in managing associated stresses.

Physical Therapist: Evaluates and treats body positioning, sensory and motor movements necessary for safe and efficient swallowing, recommends appropriate seating equipment needed during feeding.

Social Worker: Assists and counsels patient/student and families in adjustment to disability, access to the least restrictive residential and treatment environments, and third-party payment issues.

Pulmonologist: Evaluates and resolves respiratory issues in dysphagia patients/students; controls chronic pulmonary diseases and ventilator-dependent patients/students.

Radiation Oncologist: Implements radiation treatment regimens to treat patients/students with dysphagia caused by malignancies of the mouth, throat, and/or esophagus.

Radiologist: Evaluates swallowing problems through radiologic studies, primarily with Speech-Language Pathologists during videofluorographic swallow studies (VFSS.)

Patient / Student: Provides information to other team members about his/her disorder; demonstrates understanding of the causes and treatment of the dysphagia disorder; follows dietary, compensatory and facilitative techniques to restore swallowing function and maintain adequate nutrition and hydration.

Family Member / Caregiver: Provides information to other team members about the patient/student’s signs and symptoms of the disorder; demonstrates understanding and implements the recommended management techniques.

Speech-Language Pathologist: Evaluates and treats patients/students with swallowing problems, including direct modifications of physiologic responses and indirect approaches such as diet modification.