What is it about?
The Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) and Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) have unique expertise to offer children with cleft lip and/or palate at different stages of their nutrition and feeding skill development. This paper demonstrates how performing evaluations collaboratively to combine expertise allows for a more holistic and well-rounded approach to a child's feeding and growth.
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Why is it important?
Traditional models of healthcare where disciplines function in silos increases patient risk and can impact quality of care. Increasing amounts of evidence have arisen to support the positive impacts of collaboration between professionals.
Perspectives
Writing this article was a pleasure because it allowed us to demonstrate the positive impacts that we are seeing on what really matters - the children that we care for.
Camila Martin
University of Wisconsin Madison
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This page is a summary of: Joint Clinical Nutrition and Speech Pathology Clinics: A Highly Impactful Collaboration for Children With Cleft Lip and/or Palate, Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, March 2025, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2024_persp-24-00201.
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