Dysphagia Resource CenterServing the Dysphagia professional since 1995.
Resources for swallowing and swallowing disorders.

[Date Prev][Date Next] [Chronological] [Thread] [Top]

[Dysphagia] Spanish resources



Please change my subscription to laurieb@chw.edu.  If
this is not possible, please unsuscribe me to the
listserve.  I don't check this email address very
often.  Thanks


--- smhjr@surfbest.net wrote:
> I have always had translators (family or hospital)
> use traga. These
> have all been Mexican immigrants.
> 
> ---- Original Message ----
> From: mbuckie@dmc.org
> To: RN2D@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu,
> vstefans@george.ach.uams.edu,
> dysphagia@b9.com
> Subject: RE: [Dysphagia] Spanish resources
> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 11:41:34 -0400
> 
> >
> >That's interesting...whenever I have had a family
> member translate
> >they have used the command form traga , like traga
> otra vez (swallow
> >again)...Different regions of Spanish speakers use
> different vocab
> >words sometimes (Cuban v. Mexican v. Puerto Rican)
> > 
> >MPB
> >
> >	-----Original Message----- 
> >	From: dysphagia-bounces@b9.com on behalf of
> Neubert, Rebecca R *HS 
> >	Sent: Tue 6/1/2004 8:56 AM 
> >	To: Vikki Stefans; dysphagia@b9.com 
> >	Cc: 
> >	Subject: RE: [Dysphagia] Spanish resources
> >	
> >	
> >
> >	I agree-  pasar is more appropriate for swallowing
> in humans than
> >tragar
> >	
> >	-Rebecca
> >	
> >	        -----Original Message-----
> >	        From: dysphagia-bounces@b9.com on behalf
> of Vikki Stefans
> >	        Sent: Mon 5/31/2004 6:01 PM
> >	        To: dysphagia@b9.com
> >	        Cc:
> >	        Subject: Re: [Dysphagia] Spanish resources
> >	       
> >	       
> >	
> >	        I just got back from Mexcio where we did a
> medical mission
> >that included
> >	        some special needs children, two of whom
> pretty clearly have
> >dyspahgia.
> >	        One is pretty classic for silent
> apsiration, the other has
> >overt problems
> >	        with thin liquids. Both are pretty well
> noursihed, but one
> >missed therapy
> >	        all winter due to infections adn the other
> is very severely
> >congested all
> >	        the time. Given the impossibility of
> getting studies, and
> >I'm not even
> >	        sure if the OTs or Speech therapists
> available to them can
> >do any
> >	        dysphagia therapy, all we could do was
> talk about trying
> >thicker liquids
> >	        and using water just between meals. (Oral
> hygeine excellent
> >for both.)
> >	       
> >	        I really want to develop a resource in
> Spanish about
> >pediatric dysphagia
> >	        for these very sweet children adn
> families, but don't want
> >to re-invent
> >	        the wheel if there is something better out
> there I have not
> >found...
> >	       
> >	        I just read these two and I think they are
> not quite what we
> >need...
> >	       
>
>http://www.med.utah.edu/pated/handouts/handoutspanbackup.cfm?id=S558
> >	       
>
http://www.med.utah.edu/pated/handouts/handout.cfm?id=558
> >	       
> >	        To top that off, a native Spanish speaker
> we met there
> >thought that espeso
> >	        was not quite the right word for thickened
> liquid, and that
> >many people
> >	        would not relate to "tragar" as a verb for
> swallowing, as
> >that is used to
> >	        refer to animals swallowing and not
> people. Dificultad en
> >pasar los
> >	        liquidos or la comida might be better?
> Consistencia mas
> >fuerte? Con mas
> >	        densidad? And apparently the word dysfagia
> is not commonly
> >understood...
> >	        well duh, the average lay person won't
> know dysphagia in
> >English either I
> >	        guess.
> >	       
> >	        I already got the previous posts from the
> archive.
> >	       
> >	        Other suggestions??
> >	       
> >	        Vikki Stefans, M.D., pediatric physiatrist
> (rehab doc for
> >kids) at UAMS
> >	        and Arkansas Children's Hospital.  Working
> Mom of Sarah T.
> >and Michael C.,
> >	        and wife of Henry Stefans. Every mom is a
> working mom!- OK,
> >dads too.
> >	       
> >	       
> >	       
> >	        The information contained in this message
> may be privileged
> >and confidential and protected from disclosure. If
> the reader of this
> >message is not the intended recipient, or an
> employee or agent
> >responsible for delivering this message to the
> intended recipient,
> >you are hereby notified that any dissemination,
> distribution or
> >copying of this communication is strictly
> prohibited. If you have
> >received this communication in error, please notify
> us immediately by
> >replying to the message and deleting it from your
> computer. Thank
> >you.
> >	       
> >	       
> _______________________________________________
> >	        Dysphagia mailing list
> >	        Dysphagia@b9.com
> >	       
> http://lists.b9.com/mailman/listinfo/dysphagia
> >	       
> >	
> >	
> >
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Dysphagia mailing list
> Dysphagia@b9.com
> http://lists.b9.com/mailman/listinfo/dysphagia



	
		
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Friends.  Fun.  Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger.
http://messenger.yahoo.com/ 


Please send sugestions and comments to ppalmer@dysphagia.com."This site blew me away, I nearly choked!"
© 1996-2006 Phyllis M. Palmer, Ph.D.