This virtual full-day professional development opportunity hosted by the UCSF Department of Otolaryngology Speech Language Pathology team is built specifically for Speech Language Pathologists to deepen their therapeutic skills in the areas of voice, swallowing, and upper airway. You’ll explore how to leverage your evaluation to guide therapeutic decision making, learn how you can optimize therapy outcomes, refine your interdisciplinary collaboration skills, and gain insight into new therapeutic approaches.
This course will both ‘zoom-in’ on evidence-based therapeutic techniques guided by anatomy/physiology and objective assessment, and ‘zoom-out’ on therapy trajectory, meta-therapy conversations, and how goals of care can inform decision-making.
With a mix of lectures, case-based learning, small breakout groups, and panel discussions, this course will provide a multi-modal approach to strengthening therapeutic skills across the age spectrum and diagnoses. You will leave with a collection of practical tools, as well as a comprehensive clinical framework, to integrate into your next therapy session and beyond.
Eventbrite Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/voice-swallowing-and-upper-airway-therapy-the-science-and-the-art-tickets-1980600584665
Learning Outcomes:
- Determine candidacy and select appropriate therapeutic techniques based on diagnosis, objective assessment, and patient factors.
2. Analyze clinical cases to enhance decision-making throughout the course of voice/swallow/upper-airway therapy.
3. Identify key strategies to optimize therapy adherence, self-efficacy, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
4. Describe the interplay between voice and swallowing, applying this knowledge to refine therapeutic planning.
Disclosures:
In accordance with the policies of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, all presenters and planning committee members involved in this continuing education activity were required to disclose any relevant financial or nonfinancial relationships. Three presenters have reported relevant financial relationships and one presenter has a non-financial disclosure, these will be disclosed within their individual presentations. All other presenters and planners report no relevant financial or nonfinancial relationships to disclose.