The Speech Pack

IT'S NOT IDDSI - IT'S THE MENU 🤍

When the menu company your building uses has meals that look like this, it makes people think IDDSI is bad. IDDSI isn't bad and it's not the problem.

Setting up meals that have literally more than 75% of the items set for "P" puree, makes it very difficult for us as the SLP to recommend diet textures appropriately and adequately.

Menu systems and meals with recipes like this cause our patients to have increased risk of poor PO intake, leading to risk of weight loss and this decreases their safety when we ask for SB6 and not puree.

Some patients are actually safer on SB6 and not puree! This is a hazard and not safe. Not to mention, why would you serve corn in the cob in a SNF when a good amount of people have dentures and poor dentition?

If anyone has issues with this menu system, please DM. I'm planning to create an email thread where we can create a collective memo to send to this company with complaints.

XOXO

Thinking outside the box 💡

I love taking strategies and treatment approaches, mixing them up and making them work for whatever else I can!

Here, I used the general idea of SFA but used WH-questions instead. This session was so fun and this patient felt more confident following this session.

This session also worked on reasoning, problem solving and expressive language.

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Seriously 🤍 What do you think would happen?

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