Continuing Education Credit Information

This course is offered for 0.6 ASHA CEUs
(Intermediate level, Professional area).
6. Contact Hours per day will be granted for
R.N.s and L.P.N.s.
Please contact J. Dunham @ 413-283-3411
Ext. 1347 or email @
For more information. /

PresentedBy:

Angela Mansolillo,
MA,CCC/SLP, BRS-S

Thursday, May 27, 2010

8AM-4PM

Daly Hall Auditorium

Monson Developmental Center

Palmer, MA 01069

Dysphagia Management:

What Do We know?
Agenda:
8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 Overview of Dysphagia Management
8:35 The Respiratory System – Relationships
to Swallowing
8:50 The Role of Cough
8:55 Understanding Pulmonary Clearance Mechanisms
9:15 Risk Factors for Aspiration Pneumonias
9:35 The Role of Saliva
9:50 Oral Hygiene – Practices and Protocols
10:10 Differentiating between Pneumonias
10:25 Aspiration Screening
10:45 Break
11:00 Aspiration Assessment
11:50 Lunch
12:50 Aspiration Management
2:10 Normal Reflux/Reflux Mechanisms
2:35 Break
2:50 Reflux Assessment
3:15 Managing Reflux
4:00 Seminar Adjourned
Objectives/Outcomes:
As a result of this course, participants will be able to:
Describe the mechanisms of aspiration
and pulmonary clearance
Describe techniques to assess
dysphagia and aspiration risk
Identify compensations, interventions
to reduce aspiration risk
Identify aspiration risk factors
associated with reflux /

Dysphagia Management:

What Do We know?
This course will provide participants with an understanding of aspiration, pulmonary clearance mechanisms, and pulmonary disease processes, with additional focus on issues specific to
the MR/DD population. Guidelines for identification of risk
factors for dysphagia, aspiration and for aspiration pneumonia
will be reviewed. A review of current evidence will provide strategies for assessment of, compensation for, and remediation of thoserisk factors.

Angela Mansolillo, M.A., CCC-SLP, BRS-S
Ms. Mansolillo is a Speech-Language Pathologist and Board-Recognized Specialist in Swallowing Disorders. She received her Master of Arts from the University of Connecticut and is currently a Senior Speech-Language Pathologist at Cooley-DickinsonHospital in western Massachusetts. In addition, she serves as adjunct faculty and clinical supervisor at ElmsCollege. Angela has more than 20 years of experience and has worked in a variety of clinical settings, including outpatient, critical care settings, long-term care and pediatrics. She serves as guest lecturer at several colleges and universities throughout Massachusetts on a regular basis and provides numerous national presentations in the area of dysphagia.
Directions toMonsonDevelopmentalCenter:
Take MA Pike to exit 8, Palmer. Turn right after the tollbooth. Follow road until second set of lights at the Main Street of Palmer, (CVS will be on your left) take left at lights and then your first right onto Bridge St., follow road until you see a large brick building on your left (Brookside), take next left and then a right into the parking lot behind the third building on the right. The workshop is in the Daly Hall auditorium at Monson Dev. Ctr. which will be right in front of you. Additional parking is available to the right of BuckleyBuilding.
Cancellation Policy:We reserve the right to cancel if there are insufficient registrations by March 1, 2010.. In case of inclement weather, emergency, speaker ill health, etc., this presentation may be cancelled. Please call 413-283-3411 X1347 or1213 after 6:30 AM or listen to WBZ1030 radio, WWLP Channel 22 or WGBY Channel 40 television. /

REGISTRATION

Program cost: $55
(includes Continental Breakfast and Lunch)
Make check payable to: MECO

Send to: Susan Boucher

Monson Developmental Center
175 State Avenue
Palmer, MA 01069
This facility is handicap accessible. To request special
accommodations please contact Rocky Blazejowski or
Susan Boucher at 413-283-3411 or 283-1315 Ext.
1213/1215 or email request to:
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Registrations will be accepted at the door on a space
available basis
(Food may not be included for walk-in registrations).
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Refunds will not be given after May 15, 2010