Let’s get real for a second

You walked out of that evaluation and forgot half of what you meant to do.

It happens to all of us. New grad or 25 years in, it does not matter.

You go in to evaluate a patient. Maybe you have done this evaluation hundreds of times. Maybe it is your first week. Either way, you walk in prepared.

You do the evaluation. You leave the room.

And somewhere between the chart review and the goodbye, you forgot half of what you had planned to cover.

It happens. We get so focused on not forgetting something that we forget something else anyway. Or the patient's daughter starts telling you about her cruise, and by the time you are back in the hallway, a piece of your CSE just quietly did not happen.

That missing piece is rarely small. It is often the piece that would have changed the whole plan.

 

 

What the Clinical Dysphagia Assessment Toolkit gives you

This is the toolkit built so nothing gets left in the hallway. Inside, you will find:

• A full walkthrough of the CSE, start to finish
• Checklists that keep every piece of the exam on track, even when the room gets chaotic
• How medications and labs quietly affect swallowing, and what to actually look for
• Interview questions that get you the information you need without feeling like an interrogation
• A complete Cranial Nerve and Oral Mech Exam guide
• What to do after the CSE, so you are never standing there wondering what comes next
• A few bonus forms, because paperwork should not be the hard part of your day

 

 

Here is the truth. I did not always know what I was doing either.

Early in my career, dysphagia felt like a guessing game. I would watch a patient eat in the dining room and hope I caught something. I gave every single patient with a swallowing problem the same oral motor exercises, regardless of what was actually going on with them.

I was not individualizing anything. I was following a template and calling it treatment. And honestly, I did not feel like I knew what I was doing, because I did not.

So I started learning. Not casually. Obsessively.

I spent years studying dysphagia, becoming the second person in Indiana to hold the BCSS credential, training in MDTP, LSVT, and SPEAK OUT!, and picking up MBS and FEES competency along the way. I started writing a blog in 2010, back when almost no one was talking about dysphagia online. I traveled internationally to speak on it. I co-authored The Adult Dysphagia Pocketguide and two therapy apps.

Somewhere in the middle of all that studying, the guessing stopped. Assessment started making sense. And I built the toolkit I wish someone had handed me on day one, so the next SLP would not have to spend fifteen years figuring it out the hard way.

That is the Clinical Dysphagia Assessment Toolkit. It is not theory. It is what I actually use.

 

Where the Therapy Toolkit picks up

Assessment tells you what is happening. The Clinical Dysphagia Therapy Toolkit tells you what to do about it, and it was built to work alongside the Assessment Toolkit as one complete system.

Inside, you will find:

• Strength versus skill in therapy, and why the distinction changes your treatment plan
• Exercise and neuroplasticity, explained in a way you can actually use at the bedside
• A full exercise and treatment library for dysphagia
• Nutrition, hydration, and dehydration considerations
• Head and neck cancer rehab guidance
• Food chaining
• Several of my therapy guides, included in full

Plus three exclusive guides you will not find anywhere else:

• Peak Flow Guide
• MD Anderson Bootcamp Guide
• Pharyngocise

This is everything I wish I had known back when I was giving every patient the same set of exercises and hoping for the best.

 

The bundle offer

You no longer have to buy these separately.

Get the Clinical Dysphagia Assessment Toolkit and the Clinical Dysphagia Therapy Toolkit together, as the Clinical Dysphagia Toolkit Bundle, at a better combined price than purchasing each one on its own.

Assessment and treatment, built to work together, because that is how it actually works in the room with your patient.

 

 

 

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