Practical and Applicable Solutions: How SLPs Benefited from ASHA Health Care Connect

SLPs came to ASHA’s Health Care Connect conference ready to learn about dysphagia, head and neck cancer, Parkinson’s disease, concussion, delirium—and much more. Across three days of sessions, SLPs heard how their unique skills and training prepared them to work as an integral part of multidisciplinary teams. Editor’s note: This is part two of a series on tips SLPs learned at ASHA Connect 2018. Read part one for insights heard from attendees of the schools’ sessions. Ruth Snyder, an SLP and solo practitioner in Jacksonville, Florida, began her Friday morning at Vivian Sisskin’s session, “Differential Diagnosis of Speech Disfluency: Is It Stuttering or Something Else?” Snyder was eager to learn from her colleagues. “It’s nice to hear other therapists discuss their experiences,” she said. “You get input from different people from different parts of the country who struggle with the same problems as you, but they may have new ideas or approaches to the same problem that you can now take and adapt in your practice.” Interdisciplinary work recurred thematically across sessions. Participants in Cynthia Fox and Laura Guse’s session on improving care for people with Parkinson’s disease broke into groups to discuss their personal experiences with Parkinson’s patients, their perceived barriers to IPP, and stories of successful IPP relationships. SLP Robin Fludd of Hampton, Virginia, works in the home health setting and enjoyed all the brainstormi...
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