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[Dysphagia] functional dysphagia goals



The easiest and most objective, provable are how much food and liquid taken by mouth per day/week. Or, time taken to drink 30ml water after baseline testing - still the most widely used screening test.
Longer term are weight gain as well as other nutritional variables.

sassy143@bellsouth.net wrote:
Does anyone have advice, or examples, of functional and measurable short term goals (targeted weekly) for dysphagia. Either a general goal or a specific goals targeting laryngeal elevation, swallow initiation, base of tongue retraction, etc... I am having difficulty developing short term goals that are measurable and functional. Thanks for any advice. 


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