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By Emily M. Homer

Management of Swallowing and Feeding issues in Schools examines the main major concerns in swallowing and feeding dealing with school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs). themes addressed are distinctive to the college atmosphere, starting from organizing a workforce process in a district to serving kids with advanced scientific concerns, behavioral feeding issues, and neurological feeding issues. moral, criminal, and cultural concerns also are addressed.

Many scholars at school districts around the nation show the symptoms of dysphagia, and youngsters who have been initially taken care of for dysphagia in hospitals and different settings usually start attending public faculties at 3 years outdated. the trouble that they had with swallowing and feeding often follows them to the varsity atmosphere. extra, there are lots of scholars who increase swallowing and feeding problems due to nerve-racking mind damage, neurological issues and syndromes, behavioral problems, etc. the variety of scholars wanting providers for swallowing and feeding issues within the university atmosphere might be from 3 to twenty-two years of age and from gentle dysphagia to tube feeding.

The identity and remedy of swallowing and feeding problems in faculties is comparatively new. There are nonetheless many districts within the state and the world over that don't tackle the wishes of youngsters with dysphagia. As school-based SLPs tackle the problem of this inhabitants there's a desire for info that's present, exact, and thorough. collage courses comprise little or no education, if any, at present within the region of swallowing and feeding within the university surroundings. this article is suitable for either a dysphagia path in addition to classes that educate SLP scholars to paintings with school-aged scholars.

From the Foreword:

I am privileged to be requested to write down this foreword to administration of Swallowing and Feeding issues in colleges. This publication is predicted to turn into an incredible source for speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and different pros in quite a few tuition settings as they're more and more being confronted with young ones demonstrating a number swallowing difficulties (dysphagia) in addition to broader dependent feeding difficulties. the yank Speech-Language-Hearing organization has constructed instructions for SLPs that come with wisdom and abilities wanted, roles and tasks, and under pressure the necessity for interdisciplinary groups. a massive power of this ebook is that it offers advice in useful ways in which covers a variety of themes very important to optimizing review and intervention for those childrens so they can functionality of their academic environments within the most sensible methods possible.

Joan C. Arvedson, PhD, CCC-SLP, BC-NCD, BRS-S, ASHA Fellow
Board well-known expert in Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders
application Coordinator, Feeding and Swallowing Services
Children’s health center of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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The team works collaboratively with the school-based personnel including the teacher, administrator, school-based SLP, OT, and nurse. The core team is responsible for following the procedure once a student is referred to the team. They establish the safe feeding plan and train the school staff to implement the plan and to report concerns and changes in the student’s swallowing and feeding. The core team will want to set a schedule to visit each school according to the needs of the students. The school-based 26 Management of Swallowing and Feeding Disorders in Schools personnel such as the SLP and OT can be trained on the plan to assist with monitoring.

This decision lends support to the notion that children with health care needs may also receive services to meet their day-to-day health needs. S. Supreme Court ruled in the Garrett case that if related services are critical to the continual enrollment of an eligible child with a disability, then those services must be provided, as long as they are not purely medical in nature (Power-deFur & Alley, 2008). This case established the assumption that students with health care needs will attend school, just like their peers without health needs.

Contract services — district contracts services with a private consultant when the district has no dysphagia-trained SLPs on staff. • School building level team — an SLP in a specific school may have knowledge and experience in pediatric dysphagia and works with the building administration to develop procedures to work with dysphagia cases. The school district at large may not have a formal process/ procedure in place but the school building base model may begin at the school level and lead to the development of district policies by piloting the procedure.

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