What COVID Means for SLPs Treating Swallowing Disorders

We’re talking about swallowing disorders in the time of COVID with two expert SLPs. Johns Hopkins’ Martin Brodsky joins us to trace the challenges facing clinicians tasked with managing dysphagia during the pandemic. He tells us what’s changed since the pandemic began, what he’s heard while serving on the Dysphagia Research Society (DRS) COVID-19 Task Force, and the important role of clinicians in research. Then, we talk telepractice. With concerns over infection control and closed facilities, some clinicians turn to the internet as an alternate way to serve clients. Purdue University’s Georgia Malandraki, who specializes in telepractice and is also on the DRS task force, shares questions researchers are asking about telepractice and dysphagia, and what she’s heard from other clinicians.