Description
Presented by: Carly Barbon, PhD, CCC-SLP
AUDIENCE: Clinical Fellows to experienced clinicians.
Intermediate Level
This webinar is FREE for all thanks to the sponsorship support from CranioRehab.
Description of Webinar
This course provides medical speech-language pathologists with basic functional expectations related to speech and swallowing after partial/hemiglossectomy and approaches to maximize the preoperative visit. Participants will explore the impact of tongue resection on speech, swallowing and oral function in addition to learning evidence-based strategies to support functional recovery. Through case studies, clinical assessment techniques, clinician-and patient-reported outcome assessments and initial targeted rehabilitation approaches, this session emphasizes optimizing both form and function to improve patient outcomes in the early recovery period. This training is tailored for SLPs working in medical or oncologic setting who are seeking to enhance their exposure to pre-and post-surgical care and rehabilitation for head and neck cancer patients.
Learning objectives:
1. List and describe functional expectations at the preoperative visit based on the preliminary surgical plan
2. Understand rehabilitative timelines and describe options toward functional monitoring in the acute recovery period post-glossectomy
3. Describe functional targets to augment the critical window between surgery and adjuvant therapy in post-glossectomy patients
This webinar is approximately 60 minutes in length. This is a recording from a live webinar.
This webinar is offered for Professional Development Hours (PDHs), previously Certification Maintenance Hours (CMHs). Dysphagia Cafe is not an ASHA CEU provider and does not submit for ASHA CEUs. For more information on PDH: https://www.asha.org/certification/factdef/.
Certificate of completion available upon request after completion of the recorded webinar!
Presenter Bio:
Dr. Carly Barbon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. She completed her PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Toronto where she investigated pathophysiologic and mechanistic drivers of dysphagia after radiotherapy in addition to novel rehabilitative options for glossectomy patients. Dr. Barbon completed her postdoctoral fellowship at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, with a focus on clinician-and patient-reported functional outcomes after oropharyngeal cancer treatment. Her research is focused on modelling objective functional outcomes after treatment for oral cavity and oropharynx cancers, optimizing early post-operative function and characterizing swallow pathophysiology to better identify rehabilitative targets in head and neck cancer survivors.