Description
27th and 28th October 2025 | 8:00am-4:00pm | Full day catering provided
Our team of Senior Speech Pathologists, with advanced training in instrumental swallowing assessment and experience supporting adults with dysphagia in the community, are now offering a 2-day community dysphagia course.
With over a decade of experience, we understand the real-world challenges of assessing swallow function in the community. This course focuses on providing care that truly makes a difference in clients’ lives—cutting through the myths and approaching dysphagia with a holistic, evidence-based lens.
From hospital beds to home visits, Dysphagia assessments weren’t designed for the real world — until now. This isn’t your average dysphagia PD.We’ll take you beyond cranial nerves and thickened fluids; levelling up your oromotor assessments and clinical swallow assessment to get critical information you might have been missing that makes all the difference.
You will have the opportunity to practise what you learn in a safe and simulated environment. You’ll walk away as a more confident clinician, with evidence-based tools, functional outcome measures, and clear guidelines to help you perfect your dysphagia goals and deliver practical mealtime management plans.
After this training you’ll be comfortable taking a holistic, quality of life approach to managing swallowing difficulties.
Community Dysphagia Training for Speech Pathologists | NORTH BRISBANE
What you’ll learn:
- How to complete a thorough dysphagia assessment
- Strategies for getting the most out of a comprehensive case history
- How to complete a holistic and functional oromotor assessment
- Building your clinical toolkit – exploring evidence-based screening tools, questionnaires to guide your assessment and use as outcome measures
- How to effectively manage and integrate additional areas of practice – communication, voice, cough and breathing impacts on dysphagia
- The environmental factors that could be impacting your dysphagia assessment
- How to effectively complete food and fluid trials in a variety of clinical settings
- Interpreting and applying assessment data to inform your hypothesis and guide your diagnosis, therapy goals, and treatment
- Assessing dysphagia risk using the BOLUS framework
- How to develop a comprehensive Mealtime Management Plan and tips to ensure that it is implemented
- How to incorporate client preferences and/or quality of life into the assessment process.
- How to navigate different pathways for instrumental assessment privately and in the community
- Ways to access resources and tools to keep up to date with latest best practice in dysphagia management
