91362 - Swallowing Laboratory

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Speech and Language Therapy (cod. 9080)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the laboratory the student possesses the skills necessary to carry out the evaluation of the oral district and has experimented with maneuvers and postures used in the speech therapy re-education of the dysphagic subject.

Course contents

Illustration, application and analysis of the main speech therapy rehabilitation techniques aimed at drafting a rehabilitation treatment plan aimed at addressing the resolution of dysphagic cases.

Readings/Bibliography

DEGLUTOLOGIA Publishing House: OMEGA EDITIONS Authors: Schindler, Ruoppolo Volume: SINGLE Year of Edition: 2011 Edition Number: II

 

Management of tracheostomy and tracheostomy tube. Practical guide from hospital to home by GARUTI G. Minerva Medica editions - Year 2019

Teaching methods

Lectures with small group educational workshops that will discuss clinical cases together with watching videos, administering evaluation tests, teaching maneuvers and postures and modifying the consistency of foods in the treatment of dysphagia.

Assessment methods

Presentation of a clinical case

Teaching tools

Practical material in the form of devices necessary for food preparation

Dysphagia rating scales

Videos and films

Handouts provided by the teacher

Office hours

See the website of Patrizia Bezzi

SDGs

Good health and well-being

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.