SwallowStudy.com (2025)

19/11/2025

See You @ & Events:
It has been a busy season for me, gearing up for ASHA & working with American Board of Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders and for loads of social media advertising.

I also just had a great collaboration on a blog with Dr. Kevin Huffman on post-bariatric surgery dysphagia: https://swallowstudy.com/overcome-post-bariatric-surgery-dysphagia/

I am not presenting at this ASHA, but find me at The Swallow Symposium Wednesday, Meet & Greet Thursday, and the Specialty Board booth #3924, and more.
Info below:

1. The Swallow Symposium (Wednesday afternoon & evening before ASHA)

2 great courses
Free, but register now:
https://www.theswallowsymposium.com/index.php/events/

2. Don't miss our AB-SSD Meet & Greet! Prost DC bar, 4-6 Thursday.
Find out about how to get your board certification, how to become a volunteer and a mentor, and network with good food/drink! If you are already board certified, bring a friend who is an advanced dysphagia clinician, adminstrator, professor and interested in their BCS-S.
Link:
https://www.swallowingdisorders.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1995151&hhSearchTerms=%22meet+and+greet%22
(Link in bio)

3. The Specialty Certification Boards will have a booth in the exhibit hall ( #3924).
** Come find us if you already have your BCS-S, cause we have pins and ribbons that say "Ask me about BCS-S"

** Come find us to pick up information on our advanced low cost CEUs and the readiness checklist to learn how to apply

** Please follow this QR code to volunteer/sign up to sit at our booth during ASHA's exhibit hall hours (Thursday: 10-6; Friday: 9-6; Saturday 9-1:30).
Link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-VtgMVRTjeGt8JALacGnompqAoXm9ofPm0WebhEbzZk/edit?usp=sharing

Follow American Board of Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders for more!

Thanks all! See you in DC

16/11/2025

See You @ & Events:
It has been a busy season for me, gearing up for ASHA & working with American Board of Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders and for loads of social media advertising.

I also just had a great collaboration on a blog with Dr. Kevin Huffman on post-bariatric surgery dysphagia: https://swallowstudy.com/overcome-post-bariatric-surgery-dysphagia/

I am not presenting at this ASHA, but find me at The Swallow Symposium Wednesday, Meet & Greet Thursday, and the Specialty Board booth #3924, and more.
Info below:

1. The Swallow Symposium (Wednesday afternoon & evening before ASHA)

2 great courses
Free, but register now:
https://www.theswallowsymposium.com/index.php/events/

2. Don't miss our AB-SSD Meet & Greet! Prost DC bar, 4-6 Thursday.
Find out about how to get your board certification, how to become a volunteer and a mentor, and network with good food/drink! If you are already board certified, bring a friend who is an advanced dysphagia clinician, adminstrator, professor and interested in their BCS-S.
Link:
https://www.swallowingdisorders.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1995151&hhSearchTerms=%22meet+and+greet%22
(Link in bio)

3. The Specialty Certification Boards will have a booth in the exhibit hall ( #3924).
** Come find us if you already have your BCS-S, cause we have pins and ribbons that say "Ask me about BCS-S"

** Come find us to pick up information on our advanced low cost CEUs and the readiness checklist to learn how to apply

** Please follow this QR code to volunteer/sign up to sit at our booth during ASHA's exhibit hall hours (Thursday: 10-6; Friday: 9-6; Saturday 9-1:30).
Link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-VtgMVRTjeGt8JALacGnompqAoXm9ofPm0WebhEbzZk/edit?usp=sharing

Follow for more!

Thanks all! See you in DC

15/11/2025

Here is notice of my new blog again:
on Post-Bariatric Surgery Dysphagia.
Learn more about these less well-known types of dysphagias. This is so important for the SLP specializing in dysphagia to collaborate with the medical team ( , , , , and more)!
THANK YOU to Dr. Kevin Huffman, DO, board-certified bariatric physician, for sharing your wisdom and experience collaborating with the full team, including , to help people overcome their .

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Ambari Nutrition

14/11/2025

New Blog on Post-Bariatric Surgery Dysphagia.
https://swallowstudy.com/overcome-post-bariatric-surgery-dysphagia/
Learn more about these less well-known types of dysphagias. This is so important for the SLP specializing in dysphagia to collaborate with the medical team ( , , , , and more)!
THANK YOU to Dr. Kevin Huffman, DO, board-certified bariatric physician, for sharing your wisdom and experience collaborating with the full team, including , to help people overcome their .

, ,

Ambari Nutrition

03/11/2025

So honored to continue serving on the board of American Board of Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders .

Looking forward to our board meeting in person before in DC!

See you at our Meet & Greet on Thursday 4-6pm of ASHA at Prost DC bar - register here: https://lnkd.in/eruw9vUf

Also, looking forward to seeing folks at our booth in the exhibit hall at booth # 3924. Look for pins, badge ribbons for those with BCS. Look for readiness checklists and lots of info on how to obtain your board certification.
If you are a BCS affiliate already, do you want to come sit at the booth for an hour or so? Go to this sign up if you can: https://lnkd.in/ej9s5h2D

We have been advertising so much this year on our PR committee. Feel free to volunteer for an AB-SSD committee to help out if you can at: https://lnkd.in/eyZ3wNXz

--> Thanks to all for helping AB-SSD continue to advertise all that we do (likes and shares help):
* advance the care for people with feeding and swallowing disorders,
* mentor the next gen,
* certify advanced clinicians,
* advertise great advanced courses,
* honor our colleagues, and
* continue the positive future growth as a profession (for another 100 years)!

13/10/2025

On this - we can reinforce research that is "Implementation Science," which reaches out, collaborates, and includes & communities from the start! Read more about & examples in this blog: https://swallowstudy.com/3-oral-health-updates-actions/

Excerpt:
"...Oral Health Example from an Indigenous Community:
We were fortunate (at our Society meeting) to hear an example of implementation science when Shauna Hachey shared her session on: “Oral health across the lifespan: Examples of mobilizing knowledge through interprofessional collaboration. Bridging Research and Practice.” Ms. Hachey is an Associate Professor at Dalhousie Faculty of Dentistry, School of Dental Hygiene - in Canada. She demonstrated community-led partnerships with the Mi’kmaq community to create a children’s book promoting oral health. The Mi’kmaq Indigenous / First Nation people live in the territory of Mi’kma’ki that extends from northeastern Maine to Canada’s Atlantic provinces (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, parts of Newfoundland), and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec.

Learn more about this community’s stories and the Baby Smiles Dental Health project and book: Baby Smiles: Weskewikwa’sit mijua’ji’j. Project by: Tui’kn Partnership with illustrations by Loretta Gould.

Shauna Hachey noted:

“Oral health improves with behavioral change. Implementation science, providing the knowledge and tools to enable behavioral change, can make a difference.”

Ms. Hachey recommended an online comprehensive oral hygiene toolkit called: Brushing Up on Mouth Care (www.brushingup.ca). ..."

06/10/2025

Happy
In honor of , check out this great course below. Low cost, advanced CEUs, and helps all educators teach the next generation of

02/10/2025

is coming. Find out more tomorrow night

01/10/2025

September is now over, but the CEUs are not! See gallery in newsletter for all the advanced on-demand options! Or go to link:

https://www.swallowingdisorders.org/page/courses

30/09/2025

I learned how to pilot a narrow boat on canals in England this summer! You can teach an ol' dog new tricks!!
Never to late to learn something new in this fall!

Join us this fall for a series of engaging designed to provide advanced , raise awareness, promote equity in dysphagia care, support people & families/caregivers, and learn how to advocate and innovate in the field dysphagia.

Together, let's spread knowledge and promote understanding!

Here are the websites to register:

1. AB-SSD: http://swallowingdisorders.org - specifically the Summer Series for Peds and Adults at https://www.swallowingdisorders.org/page/courses:
And more:
https://www.swallowingdisorders.org/page/Equitabledysphagiacare

https://www.swallowingdisorders.org/page/BacktoSchoolTeachingthenextgeneration

https://www.swallowingdisorders.org/page/HolisticDysphagiaManagement

https://www.swallowingdisorders.org/page/AnkyloglossiaandBreastfeeding

2. DysphagiaCafe NY Symposium: https://dysphagiacafe.com/shaping-the-future-of-swallowing-care-the-2025-new-york-city-dysphagia-symposium/

3. The Swallow Symposium by Bracco Wednesday prior to ASHA: https://www.theswallowsymposium.com/

4. DRS's DRSIE webinars: https://www.dysphagiaresearch.org/page/Webinars

5. DRS annual meeting in Denver: https://www.dysphagiaresearch.org/page/2026-Annual-Meeting

15/09/2025

I learned how to pilot a narrow boat on canals in England this summer! Never to late to learn new things too!
Join us this fall for a series of engaging designed to provide advanced , raise awareness, share experiences, support people & families/caregivers, and learn how to advocate and innovate in the field dysphagia.

Together, let's spread knowledge and promote understanding!

Here are the websites to register:

1. AB-SSD: http://swallowingdisorders.org (specifically: https://www.swallowingdisorders.org/page/courses)

2. DysphagiaCafe NY Symposium: https://dysphagiacafe.com/shaping-the-future-of-swallowing-care-the-2025-new-york-city-dysphagia-symposium/

3. The Swallow Symposium by Bracco Wednesday prior to ASHA: https://www.theswallowsymposium.com/

4. DRS's DRSIE webinars: https://www.dysphagiaresearch.org/page/Webinars

5. DRS annual meeting in Denver: https://www.dysphagiaresearch.org/page/2026-Annual-Meeting

02/09/2025

✨ It’s time to take the RAD out of Radiation‑Associated Dysphagia!
Check out this blog:
https://swallowstudy.com/take-the-rad-out-radiation-associated-dysphagia/
By Allison Bartholow, MS, MS, CCC-SLP & Karen Sheffler, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S of SwallowStudy.com

✨ Radiation treatments for head and neck cancers—especially those tied to HPV-positive tumors—can deliver a lifesaving cure, but also bring a hidden long‑term cost: difficulty swallowing, or RAD.

✨ These issues range from the immediate pain and dryness of mucositis and xerostomia, to chronic muscle stiffness, fibrosis, nerve damage, and even silent aspiration years after treatment ends.

✨ What feels like recovery months out can unfortunately give way to late RAD, a serious and often unrecognized issue that can develop five or more years later as tissues stiffen and nerves weaken

✨ Early detection and tailored interventions are key to managing RAD and improving life quality.

✨ Speech‑language pathologists (SLPs) can use assessments like video swallow studies (VFSS or FEES) to pinpoint swallowing impairments, then suggest strategies—like swallow exercises.

✨ Found this helpful? Check my link in bio and follow for more

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