Dysphagia: What Are We Really Risking? Risk, Choice and Rehabilation Following a Brain Injury

Speaker:

• Karen Scrivener-Fearn & Gillian Buckingham - Director & Speech and Language Therapists

This webinar will be APIL Accredited and will carry 1 CPD hour.

Learning Objectives:

• Explain dysphagia and recognise how swallowing difficulties following brain injury can affect a person’s physical health, psychological wellbeing, relationships, social participation and quality of life.

• Identify the wider factors that can influence swallowing, including cognition, communication, respiratory health, fatigue, mobility, reflux and an individual’s broader medical history.

• Critically consider the language and practice surrounding eating and drinking with acknowledged risks, including individual choice, shared decision-making and ongoing professional responsibility.

• Explore the multifactorial nature of complications such as aspiration pneumonia and consider how potentially modifiable risk factors can be identified and addressed.

• Compare compensatory approaches, including diet and fluid modification, with rehabilitative interventions that address swallowing strength, skill and the wider sensory-motor pathway.

FREE to members: This webinar is free for members of the Brain Injury Group, Charities and NHS employees.

A fee of £35 (+ VAT) applies to all others.

If you're not a member and would like access or having difficulty registering for this webinar, please email Tiegan.Morley@braininjurygroup.co.uk

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