Community service speech language therapists practising in adult dysphagia: Is the healthcare system failing them?

South African Journal of Communication Disorders

 
 
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Title Community service speech language therapists practising in adult dysphagia: Is the healthcare system failing them?
 
Creator Coutts, Kim A.
 
Subject Speech Pathology Speech pathology; community service; decision-making; dysphagia; mentoring.
Description Performing community service is a necessity prior to practising speech language therapy in South Africa. This system allows for improved access to these specialised services in the more rural areas. The current challenges of practising in complex settings with little access to mentorship can result in these community service therapists feeling underprepared to assess and manage patients presenting with adult dysphagia (swallowing disorders). This paper explores this topic through the theoretical lens of decision-making, from both clinical and academic perspectives. It aims to pose potential solutions on how to better transform the current practices to be contextually responsive to these challenges.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor Ms Carrin Martin, UKZN (editor)
Date 2019-07-18
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — n/a
Format text/html application/epub+zip application/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/sajcd.v66i1.615
 
Source South African Journal of Communication Disorders; Vol 66, No 1 (2019); 5 pages 2225-4765 0379-8046
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2019 Kim A. Coutts https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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