Date of Award
3-17-2020
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Communication Disorders, MCD
First Advisor
Amy Shollenbarger
Committee Members
Emily Terry; Shanon Brantley
Call Number
LD 251 .A566t 2019 H54
Abstract
Given that SLPs have such a wide scope of practice, graduate programs have a large amount of curriculum to cover: language, cognition, articulation, swallowing, pragmatics, and other areas. As a result, graduate students may feel inadequately prepared to work in infant feeding and swallowing settings. If graduate programs adequately educate their students on infant feeding and swallowing, more SLP students may decide to pursue employment and specialize in infant feeding and swallowing intervention to aid in therapy services for vulnerable infants with feeding and swallowing difficulties. The purpose of this study was to examine whether graduate school students feel adequately prepared to identify and treat infants with feeding and swallowing issues in the medical setting. It was hypothesized that many communication sciences and disorders graduate school programs cover little information on infant feeding and swallowing anatomy, physiology, treatment, and evaluation.
Rights Management
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Hickerson, Hailey Ashlyn, "Student Knowledge of Preterm Infant Feeding and Swallowing Therapy Protocols" (2020). Student Theses and Dissertations. 419.
https://arch.astate.edu/all-etd/419
