Cognitive impairment is one of the most frequently reported symptoms of long COVID. Learn how to use evidence-based methods to assess cognitive impairment in patients who are living with long…
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Learn how to use the BOLUS framework to assess the risk of dysphagia-related adverse events. This framework is the work of Phyllis M. Palmer, Ph.D., CCC-SLP at the University of…
If you’re a new home health SLP, you may be looking for some tips for adjusting to your new setting. While I love home health, it is a challenging setting…
We don’t have great data on how common it is for people to have trouble swallowing. But research suggests that between 8% and 22% of adults over 50 have trouble…
Although we can’t predict who will or will not get sick, we do know that there are a number of factors that increase the risk of developing an aspiration pneumonia.…
“I talk fine. I don’t need a speech-language pathologist.” I occasionally hear something like this when I talk to a new patient. Since I didn’t know that SLPs did anything…
We can use easy discourse measures to demonstrate improvement that may not be detected by standardized measures. I don’t know about you, but I find it frustrating to know that…
Goal Attainment Scaling is a goal-setting approach that is useful for both for documenting outcomes and for demonstrating those outcomes to insurance companies. How often do we know we’ve helped…
Create your own single-use cognitive evaluation folders by choosing from more than 30 free assessment tools (or use your own). The earlier posts on swallowing and communication include free assessment…
Trying to evaluate communication during the COVID-19 pandemic is a challenge. Like me, you’re probably minimizing what you carry into homes (or rooms). But we still need to provide a…