Reframing Dysphagia Documentation With a Person-Centered Approach

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Financial: Karen Sheffler receives compensation from MedBridge for this course. She is the founder/owner of SwallowStudy.com and has affiliate relationships with MedSLP Collective, MedBridge Education, and CWI (which sells dysphagia products). She is a paid dysphagia consultant for Trudell Medical (Abilex) and ARKRAY USA (Phazix). There is no commission on sales. She is also a paid consultant with MedBridge, a Hormel Health Labs dysphagia consultant, and on the Hormel Health Labs advisory council. Karen is compensated for webinars and lectures by Summit Education, SpeechPathology.com, Continued.com, and Encompass Health. She receives honoraria for presenting on IDDSI from Hormel Health Labs; Becky Dorner & Associates; Martin Bros. Distributing Co., Inc.; New Hampshire Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics; Nutritious Lifestyles; Mass DHCC; and the Massachusetts Speech-Language-Hearing Association. She is a dysphagia expert witness in defense and plaintiff litigation since 2016.

Nonfinancial: Karen Sheffler has no competing nonfinancial interests or relationships with regard to the content presented in this course. She is a member of the ASHA Special Interest Group 13, the National Foundation of Swallowing Disorders (NFOSD), and the Dysphagia Research Society. She was a member of the Website, Communications, and Public Relations Committee (WCPRC) from May 2017–April 2020. She has been a member of the American Board of Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders’ (ABSSD) Public Relations and Communications Committee (PRCC) since 2018 and cochair since 2020, a member of two work groups of the United States and Territories IDDSI Reference Group, and IDDSI champion since 2014.

Financial: Yvette McCoy receives compensation from MedBridge for this course. She is the owner of Speak Well Solutions, LLC. She receives a full-time salary from Moravian University and receives honoraria for online webinars.

Nonfinancial: Yvette McCoy has no competing nonfinancial interests or relationships with regard to the content presented in this course. She is the secretary of the American Board of Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders.

Satisfactory completion requirements: All disciplines must complete learning assessments to be awarded credit, no minimum score required unless otherwise specified within the course.

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