Upskill in your lunch break with a 30 min Speed Session
Goal Setting & Outcome Measurement in Dysphagia
Dysphagia goals and the way they are measured, will look different for adults living in the community.
Most outcome measurement tools for dysphagia were designed for an acute or inpatient setting and are not sensitive enough to pick up the small and specific changes that we see in many adults living with chronic dysphagia.
In this speed session I will talk about why some of the well known outcome measures for dysphagia are not suited to clients in the community and I'll present some alternatives.
Details:
Cost: $7
Available on-demand
Bonus resources:
- Dysphagia Goal Prompt Sheet
- Goal Attainment Scaling Guide for Outcome Measurement
In this speed session I will cover:
- Evidence on goal setting frameworks and dysphagia outcome measures
- Tools & resources for clients who need additional support to identify goals
- Two specific validated outcome measures that are well suited to measure baseline function and monitor change in clients who present with chronic dysphagia
- Example SMART goals for dysphagia that extend beyond just impairment-based targets
- A critique of SMART goals and suggestions for alternative ways to use them
Most of the outcome measures we're taught in training were validated on acute, post-stroke populations, where change happens in days and is large enough to register on a 7-point ordinal scale.
They're not built to detect the smaller, slower shifts we see in clients managing dysphagia at home over months or years, which means two things: it's harder to demonstrate progress to funders, case managers and families, and it's harder for you to actually know whether what you're doing is working.
This speed session will introduce you to some more appropriate outcome measurement tools and give you the strategies and resources to support your clients in setting specific and meaningful goals.
About the Presenter
Chantelle is a Speech Pathologist with over 15 years' experience working with adults with dysphagia across inpatient rehabilitation, outpatient clinics, and home-based practice. Her clinical focus is community-based dysphagia management, and all of her courses & resources are built around this.
Chantelle has presented on the topic of goal setting and outcome measurement to multidisciplinary teams in both hospital and private practice settings, on multiple occasions. It's a topic she's passionate about and she has even created a goal setting toolkit for speech pathologists.
Chantelle is the founder of Dysphagia Bites, an evidence-informed education platform for SLPs, and host of the podcast Dysphagia Research Bites. She has completed additional dysphagia training including the McNeill Dysphagia Therapy Program (MDTP certified), the Dysphagia Disorders Survey (DDS-DMSS certified), a 12-day intensive dysphagia course led by Prof Maggie-Lee Huckabee, and she is currently completing MBSImP certification.
These speed sessions have been developed because Chantelle believes quality dysphagia education should be within reach for every clinician, regardless of their professional development budget.
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I found this really practical and had great examples of how to implement goals that are functional for clients
Great overview of outcome measures and goal setting for community caseloads, especially chronic dysphagia
Understand that this session is brief and will leave you with follow up reading to deepen your understanding