Discontinued Course
AOTA Professional Development Discontinuation Notice*
Self-Paced Clinical Course (SPCC)
Dysphagia Care for Adults
Effective November 1, 2009: Product #3018, Dysphagia Care for Adults SPCC, will be discontinued. All participants will have until November 1, 2010 (1 year), to return their examinations to the AOTA Professional Development Office for continuing education credit.
If you plan to submit your completed exam for Colorado State University nondegree graduate credit, you must do so by January 1, 2011. Click here for updated CSU registration processes, credit costs and the address for submitting the forms you received with your original purchase.
Although this course remains valid and relevant for your professional development, a new edition with updated information and references will be made available in Spring 2010.
Edited by Wendy Avery-Smith, MS, OTR/L
Order #3018
Earn 1.4 AOTA CEU (14 NBCOT PDUs/14 contact hours)
Evaluate and provide intervention for clients with dysphagia. At entry level, occupational therapists possess an academic foundation in the area of occupation of eating and feeding and in the observed performance skills and patterns needed for accomplishing eating and feeding. This foundation provides the basis on which to formulate a dysphagia intervention plan.
This Self-Paced Clinical Course advances occupational therapists' skills in evaluating and providing intervention for clients with dysphagia, at entry level or advanced dysphagia care. It helps you advance to becoming a skilled dysphagia clinician and is a current reference for occupational therapists already involved in dysphagia care. The lessons present issues basic and critical to effective dysphagia management
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*When an SPCC is discontinued, examinations must be submitted within 1 calendar year of the date of discontinuation to receive AOTA continuing education credit. Product discontinuation notices are posted on the AOTA Web site, in AOTA periodicals, and in the AOTA Publications and CE Catalog.