What is it about?
Dysphagia management is often viewed through a biomedical lens, focusing primarily on curative measures. Patient-centered care may not be adequately supported by this model. Backward design in dysphagia management begins with the patient's end goal to drive the plan of care; thus, promoting more equitable, inclusive, and quality care for people of diverse backgrounds.
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Why is it important?
Our proposed paradigm shift encourages clinicians who provide services to persons with dysphagia to develop a management plan based on the patient's unique goals, taking all cultural factors into consideration. We offer practical techniques and tenants to incorporate the stages of backward design into dysphagia practice.
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This page is a summary of: Using Backward Design in Dysphagia Management: A Paradigm Shift Toward More Culturally Responsive Care, Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, December 2022, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2022_persp-22-00067.
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