It's not only swallowing: a clinician primer to adult food refusal beyond dysphagia.

Purpose Of Review: Medical teams are frequently faced with challenging clinical scenarios when their patients exhibit reduced intake of food and drink. Speech-language pathologists, who serve as oropharyngeal swallowing specialists in medical settings, are frequently the first to be summoned with the referral, 'Poor PO intake. Please evaluate and treat.

Metacognitive Strategy Training Is Feasible for People With Aphasia.

Metacognitive strategy training shows promise for reducing disability following stroke, but previous trials have excluded people with aphasia. Considering the high incidence of poststroke aphasia, it is important to determine whether people with aphasia can benefit from strategy training. The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of an adapted strategy training protocol for people with aphasia.

Complexity of Clinical Decision Making: Consent, Capacity, and Ethics.

Speech-language pathologists (SLPs), and really their patients, are often faced with challenging clinical decisions to be made. Patients may decline interventions recommended by the SLP and are often inappropriately labeled "noncompliant." The inappropriateness of this label extends beyond the negative charge; the patient's right to refuse is, in fact, protected by law.