| Dialogue on Dysphagia |
| The ASHA Health Care 2004 conference featured an outstanding faculty of top researchers and clinicians who presented courses on dysphagia across the age continuum. |
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| Advocacy Brings Positive Outcomes |
| Find out how you can engage in self-advocacy in both formal and informal situations in the health care setting to get what you and your patients need. |
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| Why Do CNAs Feed as They Do? |
| Two recent studies shed new light on the attitudes of certified nursing assistants toward feeding nursing home patients and how to improve their compliance with feeding plans. |
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| Verdict Still Out on Electrical Stimulation |
| Electrical stimulation for the treatment of dysphagia continues to be controversial, and more research evidence is needed before the profession embraces the procedure. |
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| Evidence-Based Practice Myths and Realities |
| Evidence-based practice offers a framework and a set of tools by which to improve our efforts to be better clinicians, colleagues, and investigators. |
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| Levels of Evidence |
| The evidence in evidence-based practice may take many forms—from expert opinion to meta-analysis—each with a different level of evidence. |
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| Developing Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines |
| The Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences has developed evidence-based practice guidelines in five related content areas. |
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| Cultural Competence in Health Care |
| Learn about strategies—and resources—for providing culturally competent services for the increasingly diverse population in health care settings. |
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| Cultural Competence in Audiology |
| Our success as clinicians depends on our ability to ensure that cultural differences do not bias our test results. |
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| Cultural Competence in Dysphagia |
| "Thinking out of the box" is essential for clinicians who wish to provide culturally competent dysphagia services. |
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