Research and Foundation questions:

Essential: What are some possible causes of dysphagia and what are some techniques to help these clients.

Foundation:
1.How can I gain a better understanding of the swallowing process?
2.How can I diagnose dysphagia?
3.At what point in the swallow is the problem occurring and with what thickness of food?
4.How can I make swallowing easier or better for clients?
5.How can I help the family through this situation and how can they help the client?

Tentative Point:
Provide general information about dysphagia, what it is and the possible causes. Ways that dysphagia can be treated and the involvement of the speech pathologist and the clients family/caretakers in the care of the client.

Planned Genres:
1.webliography
2.powerpoint
3.poem
4.interview transcript
5.email exchange
6.observation report

I plan on using the poem for the clients voice, maybe talking about his/her feeling about their problems and the emotions they have in response to them. In this case the audience would be themselves, maybe the clinician and/or family members. The interview transcript might be from either the clinician or representative of the clients cause speaking to an interviewer to help society understand the problems associated with dysphagia.( I am at a loss for words on this idea, I am visualizing something but I just don’t have it to the words point yet). Observation report would be from the clinicians point of view, the audience will be other collaborating professional.

Tentative Sources:
So far I have many internet resources. Some are personal and school websites others are journals published online. I really do not have any specific sites yet other that the ones listed on my webliography and the ones that I did evaluations on.