What is it about?
Climate change is considered to be the greatest threat to human health but limited attention has been paid to its effect on communication and swallowing disorders. These disorders are affected by air pollution, increasing infectious diseases and extreme weather events.
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Minimal attention has been paid to climate change and its implications for communication and swallowing disorders and for speech-language pathologists and audiologists. This paper provides education and resources on the effects of climate change for these professions and also strategies that can be incorporated into their practice.
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This page is a summary of: Communication and Swallowing Disorders: The Effects of Climate Change, Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, February 2022, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2021_persp-21-00186.
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