Practica Experiences
Ella Vezina (Left) and her clinical educator A茂da Ch茅rid
Year 2 Fall placement: Ella
At the Royal Victoria Hospital Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Department, I have had the chance to work with patients with head and neck cancer to assess and treat their dysphagia (difficulty swallowing). My amazing supervisor and the other S-LPs and Audiologists here have helped me learn so much during my 10-day placement. I have had the opportunity to provide counselling sessions before, during and after radiation treatments, provide swallowing exercises and strategies, help patients phonate (produce speech sounds) for the first time after a laryngectomy (surgery in which larynx is removed), assess patients鈥� swallowing via FEES (Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing), and more!
