Performing Assessments and Reading Research

This course consists of two presentations with supporting documents:

• Assessments and
• Research Studies. 

This course is offered for .6 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate Level; Professional area).

CEU Credits and Prices

• You must complete both presentations.
• You will receive a certificate of completion from BRS-S within three weeks. If you are applying for ASHA CEU credits, requests will be processed through the Specialty Board on Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders and submitted to ASHA four times per year; March, June, September, and December.
• The regular price for the course is $99.99
  • BRS-S members get a 25% discount - get the coupon code by logging onto your account at swallowingdisorders.org.
  • Students get a 50% discount, contact Karen Schnieder  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  for the coupon code.
  • Groups of four or more get a 50% discount, contact Karen Schnieder This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for the coupon code.

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Accuracy and Reliability of Swallowing Assessments

Presenter

Joseph Murray, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, BRS-S
VA Ann Arbor Health Care System and Wayne State University

Dr. Murray discloses that he provides continuing education lectures for the Specialty Board for Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders, Continuing Education Programs of America and the English Life Long Learning Program for Dysphagiology.

Duration

The video portion of the presentations is just under 1hour and 45 minutes long.  There are 274 slides included with the presentation.

Learning Objectives

After completing this session you will be able to:

• Identify the characteristics of accurate measures of swallow physiology,
• Identify problems in dysphagia practice that lower judgment accuracy and reliability,
• Understand the nature of differences in clinician judgment of patient observations,
• List objective terms for swallow events commonly described with subjective terms, and
• Select accurate and objective descriptors to describe swallow physiologic events.

Dysphagia Research Consumerism- How to Read Research Studies

Presenter

James L. Coyle, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, BRS-S
University of Pittsburgh

Dr. Coyle discloses that he provides continuing education lectures for the Specialty Board for Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders, and for Northern Speech Services.

Duration

The video portion of the presentations is just over 3 hours long.  There are 245 slides included with the presentation.

Learning Objectives

After completing this session you will be able to:

• Formulate a four part clinical question to frame a search for external evidence,
• Identify the design, sample size, internal and external validity of a published study,
• Identify the clinical importance of a published study
• Retrieve studies from public repositories of published research, and
• Rate the quality of published research.

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The Dysphagia Research Consumerism- How to Read Research Studies Presentation has minor problems with the audio track for seven slides (out of over 100) - click here to download a narration for those slides.