Dysphagia Research Bites

Dysphagia Bites

Dysphagia

Dementia

Cervical Auscultation

Intensive Dysphagia Rehabilitation

Eating & Drinking With Acknowledged Risk

Cough Reflex Testing

Bowles Framework

Spontaneous Swallowing Frequency

Texture Modified Diets

Cognitive Dysphagia

Community Health Care

Stroke

Community-Based Dysphagia Care

Aged Care

Five-Systems Dysphagia Framework

Head and Neck Cancer

Medication Misadventure

Pill Swallowing Difficulty

Enteral Feeding

Cognitive Assessment

Dysphagia Research Bites is the podcast for speech pathologists who want to stay evidence-based without spending hours in the library. Host Chantelle interviews practising SLPs, researchers, and clinician-researchers about their work, unpacking one research paper at a time and exploring how the findings translate into real clinical practice. It has been designed with the community and home-based S... more

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Publishes	Twice monthly	Episodes	19	Founded	8 months ago
Number of Listeners		Categories	MedicineHealth & Fitness

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E19 Medication Misadventures and Pill Dysphagia: Whose Job Is It Anyway? With Mike Hewson

When a patient can’t swallow their tablets, the conversation often ends with “take it with yoghurt” or “check with the pharmacist if it can be crushed.” But what happens to the medication, and the person, after that?

Clinical Pharmacist Mike Hewson ... more

9 Nov 2026 • 43 min

E18 Cognitive Dysphagia and the Five Systems That Impact Swallowing with Dr Megan Parsons

Is it a case of trouble with swallowing or trouble with eating? In this episode, Dr Megan Parsons, medical speech-language pathologist, unpacks a framework that changed how she thinks about swallowing problems. Chantelle and Megan explore why “dyspha... more

22 Oct 2026 • 29 min • Most popular

E17 IDDSI in Aged Care: What the Research Says About Texture Modified Meals in Nursing Homes with Vanessa Chan

Safety, nutrition, enjoyment and the dining experience all need to be part of the conversation when we are talking about texture modified meals in aged care. In this episode of Dysphagia Research Bites, Chantelle sits down with Vanessa Chan to unpack... more

8 Oct 2026 • 31 min

E16 Spontaneous Swallowing Frequency as a Marker for Dysphagia: Research, Measurement, and Clinical Application with Dr Sonal Pathak

How many times does your patient swallow in a minute? It sounds like a simple question but the answer might tell you more than you'd expect. In this episode of Dysphagia Research Bites, Chantelle sits down with Dr Sonal Pathak to explore spontaneous ... more

24 Sep 2026 • 24 min

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Recent Guests

Mike Hewson

Clinical pharmacist with 15 years of experience across community, clinical and business settings

Durbil-Eurigan Health Service

Episode: E19 Medication Misadventures and Pill Dysphagia: Whose Job Is It Anyway? With Mike Hewson

Megan Parsons

Medical speech-language pathologist specializing in adults with complex neurological and medical conditions

Episode: E18 Cognitive Dysphagia and the Five Systems That Impact Swallowing with Dr Megan Parsons

Vanessa Chan

Speech pathologist, founder of Swallowing and Dysphagia Support, chair of the Australian IDDSI Reference Group

Swallowing and Dysphagia Support; Australian IDDSI Reference Group

Episode: E17 IDDSI in Aged Care: What the Research Says About Texture Modified Meals in Nursing Homes with Vanessa Chan

Sonal Pathak

Speech-language pathologist and clinical researcher

UCSF; Swallowing and Upper Aerodigestive Functions Lab

Episode: E16 Spontaneous Swallowing Frequency as a Marker for Dysphagia: Research, Measurement, and Clinical Application with Dr Sonal Pathak

Dr. Catriona Steele

Clinician scientist and medical speech language pathologist based in Toronto; professor at University of Toronto; IDDSI board member and former Dysphagia Research Society president

University of Toronto; IDDSI; Dysphagia Research Society

Episode: E15 What Were We Doing Before? VFSS Reference Values and the Case for Quantitative Measurement with Dr Catriona Steele

Melissa Kane

Speech pathologist with clinical focus on dysphagia and community care

Medical Speech Pathology

Episode: E14 Not All Aspiration is Equal: The Evidence Behind The BOLUS Framework with Melissa Kane

Yvonne McClaren

Writer, speaker, educator with lived experience of head and neck cancer

Commensality Comeback Movement; No Feeding Tubes podcast; GULP

Episode: E13 Food, Identity & Chronic Dysphagia: A Patient Perspective That Will Change Your Practice with Yvonne McClaren

Dr. Carol Tran

PhD qualified oral health therapist, co-founder of Oral Health Home

Oral Health Home

Episode: E12 Functional Chewing Therapy (FuCT): A Protocol Every Community SLP Needs to Know About with Dr Carol Tran

Phoebe Macrae

Associate Professor and Director of the Roe Centre for Stroke Recovery and Research

University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Episode: E11 The Role of Cough Reflex Testing in Detecting Silent Aspiration Risk with Dr Phoebe Macrae

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Chantelle Hutchinson

Host of the show, speech pathologist introducing the episode; interviewing clinicians and researchers; host with Dysphagia Research Bites.

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Apple Podcasts	#113	Italy/Health & Fitness/Medicine
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E19 Medication Misadventures and Pill Dysphagia: Whose Job Is It Anyway? With Mike Hewson

Q: What's the issue with just recommending that patients take pills with food, with yogurt or with puree or even with thickened fluids?

Thickened fluids and some foods can affect how certain medicines work. Mixing medicine into food can also make food unpleasant, affect a person's enjoyment and dignity, and leave sticky or sugary residue in the mouth.

E19 Medication Misadventures and Pill Dysphagia: Whose Job Is It Anyway? With Mike Hewson

Q: With medications that don't have a coating, can cutting or crushing them still be an issue?

Yes. Whether a medication can be crushed depends on its pharmacokinetic properties and intended use, not simply whether it is coated. Altering it can affect drug absorption, dose delivery, safety and the patient's experience, so pharmacists should assess each medication.

E18 Cognitive Dysphagia and the Five Systems That Impact Swallowing with Dr Megan Parsons

Q: What's a major thing or one thing that you would like them to take from this particular article or this particular framework in their assessment or management approach when it comes to dysphagia?

Parsons encourages clinicians to refer patients when needed, recognize signs that point to causes outside their scope, and explain concerns and next steps rather than leaving patients without support.

E18 Cognitive Dysphagia and the Five Systems That Impact Swallowing with Dr Megan Parsons

Q: Is that a term that you frequently come across? And I guess, how would you describe this term to a speech? What does it look like in a meal time?

Parsons says cognitive dysphagia is not common in the literature but is a term she uses for cases where impaired cognition prevents someone from recognizing hunger, food in their mouth or the drive to eat, despite an intact oropharyngeal swallow.

E16 Spontaneous Swallowing Frequency as a Marker for Dysphagia: Research, Measurement, and Clinical Application with Dr Sonal Pathak

Q: So Sonal, can you tell me what article you chose that we're going to base our discussion on today?

Sonal explains her selection as a topic grounded in II and II research, highlighting spontaneous swallowing frequency as a concept tied to her doctoral work and to Crary and Carnaby's work, which laid the groundwork for using this measure as a clinical indicator and outcome metric, with particular emphasis on its relevance to acute stroke and potential extension to post-acute settings.

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This show centers on translating dysphagia research into practical clinical practice, with interviews that bring together SLPs, researchers, and clinician-researchers. Episodes frequently explore community- and home-based care, risk management and patient-centered decision-making, and how to apply assessment and treatment innovations in real-world settings. Across topics, listeners encounter pragmatic strategies for dysphagia care—from tongue-and-cheek reminders about functional chewing therapy to controversial discussions about risk feeding, cervical auscultation, and intensive rehabilitation. A distinctive pattern is linking contemporary research to everyday workflows, carer involvement, and autonomy for people with dysphagia, making it e... more

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