Dysphagia and Swallowing

Dysphagia & Swallowing

Course Aims:

The intention of this training is

to give you understanding of

dysphagia, it’s causes, how it can be

treated and how to support service

users with dysphagia to have the

correct nutritional support


Course Content:

  • To understand choking, what it looks like
  • To understand dysphagia
  • Understand causes of dysphagia
  • Statistics with dysphagia
  • Diagnosis
  • Normal swallowing
  • Aspiration
  • Treatment
  • IDDSI introduction
  • IDDSI drink and food test

Course Duration:

2.5 Hours

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