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Clinicians working with infants and young children need to understand how the oral, pharyngeal, and esophageal phases of swallowing impact feeding. This session focuses on disorders that impact the esophageal phase of swallowing, and how the clinician can identify and help manage these disorders.

This course is a recorded session from the 2023 ASHA online conference Rethinking Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing.

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Learning Outcomes
You will be able to:

• Describe three disorders that impact the esophageal phase of swallowing in the pediatric population
• Describe three interventions for reflux in the pediatric population
• Describe three scenarios where the SLP and the gastroenterologist can collaborate to support an infant or young child with esophageal dysphagia

Presenter Information

Laura Brooks, MEd, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, is a clinical specialist in speech-language pathology at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and is Board Certified in Swallowing Disorders. She specializes in management of pediatric dysphagia and Passy Muir Valve use with tracheostomy and ventilator-dependent patients. She has published research, case studies, and textbook chapters related to both topics. She serves on the Bioethics Committee, Global Tracheostomy Committee, and ICU liberation/ECMO Committee.

Financial Disclosures:

• Financial compensation from ASHA for this presentation
• Clinical specialist at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Nonfinancial Disclosures:

• Wrote the pediatric chapter of the textbook Communication and Swallowing Management of Tracheostomized and Ventilator Dependent Individuals

Assessment Type

Self-assessment—Think about what you learned and report on the Completion Form how you will use your new knowledge.

To earn continuing education credit, you must complete and submit the learning assessment by the end date below.

Program History and CE Information

Online conference dates: March 22–April 3, 2023; November 29–December 11, 2023
End date: October 31, 2029

This course is offered for 0.1 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area).