Dysphagia Clinical Resources

The Aerodigestive Research Core (ARC) is comprised of passionate clinician scientists who are dedicated to improving dysphagia care and outcomes. Our mission is to improve assessment and clinical management approaches for upper aerodigestive tract disorders to optimize functions of swallowing, breathing, and airway clearance, patient quality of life, and survivorship. Emily Plowman, PhD, and her team strive to conduct pragmatic, meaningful and translatable clinical research that can be utilized by clinicians working ‘in the trenches’ to improve patient outcomes. 

This website provides resources on the topics of feeding, speech, and mouth development/function for parents, family members, and professionals. This site contains free blogs, questions and answers, and other resources on these topics. The goal of the website is to educate parents, family members, and professionals about the best possible feeding, speech, and mouth development/function practices for babies, children, and adults.

Our research, led by Dr. Ashwini Namasivayam-MacDonald, PhD, SLP(C), CCC-SLP, Reg. CASLPO, focuses on swallowing difficulties in older adults.

Through our research, we seek to better understand the nature of swallowing difficulties across different conditions, different factors that influence swallowing difficulties and the best ways to support adults living with swallowing difficulties and their caregivers.

ASHA is the national professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 173,070 members and affiliates who are audiologists, speech-language pathologists, speech, language, and hearing scientists, audiology and speech-language pathology support personnel, and students.

Aspire  Respiratory Products are the makers of the EMST150 and the EMST75 expiratory muscle strength trainers and the IA150 Inspiratory Adapter. We have been partnering with world class researchers since 2008 to create therapeutic devices that target cough, swallowing and increased breathing capacity. The EMST150™ was the first of its kind, a calibrated expiratory muscle strength trainer designed specifically for individuals who want to enhance their breathing and swallow function. Our goal is to improve the quality of people’s lives responsibly with scientifically proven science behind every product we bring to market.

Bracco Diagnostics manufactures standardized barium products specifically designed for the Modified Barium Swallow study. Bracco provides a full range of radiology supplies for fluoroscopy, CT, MR, Nuclear Medicine and Ultrasound.

The Computational Deglutition Lab is an interdisciplinary research team consisting of speech-language pathologists and medical engineers at the University of Pittsburgh. Our lab aims to improve assessment, treatment, and quality of life for people with swallowing disorders by using swallow kinematic analysis and computational modeling techniques.

Passionate about innovation in healthcare, CranioRehab specializes in medical rehab devices designed to prevent and treat trismus, dysphagia, microstomia, and facial contractures. Our focus on quality patient care drives us to create viable solutions for head, neck, mouth, and jaw rehabilitation.

A multi-disciplinary, non-profit society dedicated to encouraging and enhancing research in normal and disordered swallowing. The Dysphagia Research Society is organized exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes.

The Esophageal Co-Lab is part of a collaborative effort created by founders Dr. Stephanie Watts and Jessica Gregor, SLP to act as a resource hub for esophageal dysphagia education and connect providers with a special interest in esophageal dysphagia research clinical management. The aim of the Co-Lab is to promote collaboration and scientific discovery.

Feeding Matters is spearheading the effort to conquer pediatric feeding struggles by developing tools, resources, and educational opportunities for both parents and professionals. Working alongside internationally recognized feeding experts, Feeding Matters is addressing the many aspects of feeding and swallowing disorders, including growth, cognitive development, physical strength, behavior, and nutritional status.

Welcome to the Hutcheson Laboratory! We are a clinical research lab focused on head and neck cancer survivorship – with an emphasis on swallowing and communication outcomes. Our goal is to advance the science and care of head and neck cancer survivors from diagnosis through the management of late effects.

The Hutcheson Laboratory seeks to optimize functional outcomes and quality of life in cancer survivorship through high quality clinical studies. We have developed protocols and methods to measure functional outcomes with emphasis on pragmatic, real world solutions to outcomes assessment and clinical management. 

The Laboratory for the study of Upper Airway Dysfunction (UAD) is committed to improving clinical outcomes and quality of life in patients with dysphagia and dystussia through research, clinical care, and education.

Bringing to you topical information, patient support, education, research and all things related to the advancement and treatment of Dysphagia.

In the NYU Swallowing Research Lab, we conduct research about healthy and disordered swallowing (also known as dysphagia). The lab is led by Dr. Sonja Molfenter, a clinically-trained speech language pathologist. Much of the lab’s research focuses on biomechanical changes to swallowing in various health-related conditions – see our “Current Projects” page to learn more. NYU SRL research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the NYU CTSA grant, and the NYU Mega Grants fund. 

The NYCDSG is a unique group of medical speech-language pathologists from the New York metro area who meet once a month for a specialized conference to discuss various clinical care topics and research related to the field of dysphagia and medical speech pathology. Follow the link for meeting details.

Our work focuses on better understanding swallowing in context among healthy older adults and across various clinical populations. Swallowing impairments (dysphagia) result in profound biopsychosocial disability, impacting both the individual and their loved ones. Thus, the shared mealtime provides a particularly potent opportunity to address the intricate relationships between social interaction and health-relevant symptoms and outcomes. By framing swallowing within the broader contexts of eating/mealtime and socialization processes, we aim to develop more holistic, ecologically valid approaches to managing swallowing- and eating-related impairments that can improve life expectancy and quality of life for individuals and their families.

The O-SEE Lab is located at the University of Oregon and is directed by Samantha Shune, PhD, Assistant Professor of Communication Disorders and Sciences.

Invented by a patient for patients, all Passy Muir Swallowing & Speaking Valves are made in the USA to the highest of standards. Passy Muir is also a recognized leader in providing quality tracheostomy education. We believe that communication is the essence of the human spirit; it is essential to individual rights and dignity, and we are committed in our efforts to offer tracheostomized and ventilator-dependent patients a step towards independence and dignity through speech.

The Purdue I-EaT Swallowing Research Lab and Clinic, directed by Georgia Malandraki, are dedicated to high-quality interdisciplinary clinical and biomedical research focusing on: a) understanding the neural underpinnings of swallowing in health and disease, b) using that knowledge to develop new physiology-based interventions for dysphagia, and c) developing and validating telehealth systems for swallowing rehabilitation. Our Clinic serves pediatric and adult patients with dysphagia and allows for rapid translation of our lab work to clinical practice.

This website from Emily M. Homer, CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow is designed to provide school-based SLPs, OTs, nurses, and others with information on addressing swallowing and feeding in a school setting.  Information and resources are provided on using a step-by-step district approved procedure to establish and maintain safe eating at school. The site provides articles, resources and information on how to successfully address swallowing and feeding in the schools.

The Swallowing Cross-Systems Collaborative (SCSC) at Northwestern University uses a clinical-research framework to improve the quality of life for people suffering from dysphagia. Within our state-of-the-art facility, we utilize refined diagnostic equipment to identify deficits in upper aerodigestive physiology, and test the effect of novel therapeutic regimens. Findings from these investigations are carefully translated into clinical care through our integration of aspiring and practicing clinicians within the research laboratory. Here, trainees learn using a multi-modal clinical training approach that links didactic instruction with hands-on experience – providing clinicians with the scientific foundations to enhance patient care.

The Swallowing Rehabilitation Research Laboratory (SRRL) was founded in 2003 by Dr. Catriona Steele. The lab consists of a multidisciplinary group of individuals from speech-language pathologists, PhD students to clinical engineers who are interested in exploring the exact mechanisms of swallowing and improving clinical practice.

TIMS Medical offers cutting-edge video recording and archiving for medical imaging procedures. Our TIMS MVP solution enables live video recording from any medical modality, with advanced diagnostic imaging tools for review, editing, and reporting. With seamless connectivity to PACS, VNA, and EMR, TIMS MVP optimizes productivity, cuts costs, and enhances patient outcomes.

The Swallowing & Salivary Bioscience Lab is a translational research program focused on dysphagia, or swallowing dysfunction, in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. The goal of our work is to systematically identify and characterize factors underlying dysphagia in patients with Alzheimer’s disease and then to translate these findings into novel, evidence-based treatments for maintenance of quality of life and prevention of pneumonia onset. Specific research interests include the effects of intensive dysphagia rehabilitation, including tongue strengthening, on swallow function and health status; the feasibility of exercise-based approaches to dysphagia treatment for patients with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease; and the impact of oral microbial profiles and saliva production on oral health and pneumonia risk in patients with dysphagia.

SwallowStudy.com is a dysphagia resource for professionals and patients and strives to provide an up-to-date, evidenced-based resource for the busy dysphagia practitioner. This website includes a dysphagia blog, as well as quick links for clinicians and patients, conference and literature reviews, and patient handouts. More information is being added all the time. We welcome suggestions and encourage discussions.

Research and education dedicated to swallowing disorders from the department of speech and hearing sciences at the University of New Mexico. Our lab conducts research investigating the essential characteristics of oral, pharyngeal, and laryngeal motor function as it relates to swallow function across the lifespan in healthy individuals and individuals with various disorders.