- Event organiser: Association of Clinical Speech Therapists of Ukraine
- Date and time of the event:November 29, 2025, at 10:00 a.m.
- Format: offline + online broadcast
- Venue of the offline part:Odessa, Odessa Hotel
- Arkadiy Plateau, 5
Dear speech therapists, despite the almost total lack of light, we are preparing to hold our scientific and practical webinar in Odessa
We invite you to attend the webinar ‘Dysphagia Management: An Interdisciplinary Approach’
NGO ‘Association of Clinical Speech Therapists of Ukraine’
🔹Purpose of the webinar:
🔹 Registration
📩 Advance registration is required. Link to the registration form (click to proceed)
📧 Contact information: akluukr@gmail.com, tel.: 0936758512, 0680089452.
To improve the competence of clinical speech therapists and rehabilitation specialists in the interdisciplinary management of patients with dysphagia; show the patient’s path from the emergency room to discharge with restored swallowing function through a clinical case; provide practical algorithms for examination, diagnosis, therapy planning and interdisciplinary coordination.
🔹 Key audience:
clinical speech therapists, neurologists, physical and rehabilitation medicine doctors, nurses in departments caring for patients with swallowing disorders, department heads, senior students, representatives of the MDCR and social support institutions.
🔹 Schedule:
• 09:45 – 10:00 — Participant registration, sound/camera test, welcome speech
Welcome speech by the chair of the AKLU NGO, Alla Vasylivna Zarytska.
Brief overview of the objectives and organisational issues by Iryna Pavlivna Shtegeran.
• 10:15 – 11:00 — Module 1. Neuroanatomical aspects of swallowing disorders due to local brain damage (45 min)
Lecturer: Natalia Gavrilova, Candidate of Psychological Sciences, Professor of the Department of Speech Therapy and Special Methods at Kamyanets-Podilsky University named after Ohiienko (45 min.)
• 11:00 – 14:00 — Module 2. Clinical speech therapy for swallowing disorders (180 min)
🔹 Lectures:
Topic: The role of a clinical speech therapist in restoring swallowing in patients with dysphagia
Lecturer: Olena Yurievna Romas, clinical speech therapist, chair of the clinical committee of the AKLU NGO;
Topic: Speech therapy massage in clinical speech therapy
Lecturer: Natalia Saydalimova, medical psychologist, clinical speech therapist at the hospital for war veterans in Mykolaiv;
Topic: Neurosensory electrostimulation for dysphagia.
Lecturer: Yulia Rudnytska, clinical speech therapist at the private centre ‘Dzherelo Life’ in Odesa, chair of the public relations committee of the NGO ACLU;
Topic: Chewing and swallowing disorders in children with speech disorders
Lecturer: Olga Viktorivna Litvinova, clinical speech therapist, founder and director of Olga Litvinova’s Speech Correction Centre ‘Sunflower’ in Mykolaiv;
Topic: Nutritional support for patients in the acute phase of stroke.
Lecturer: Pavlo Lebedynets, neurologist, head of the stroke department, assistant professor of the Department of Neurology and Paediatric Neurology at Kharkiv National Medical University; Member of the European Stroke Organisation; Member of the Ukrainian Society of Stroke Medicine; Master’s student in stroke medicine; Member of the working groups of the National Health Service of Ukraine.
Presentation: Cerebralin in the restoration of sensorimotor functions after a stroke
• 14:00 – 14:15 — Break (15 min)
• 14:15 – 15:30 — Module 3. Clinical case: the path of a patient with swallowing disorders — from the emergency room to discharge with restored swallowing function (75 min)
Hosts: MDC team of City Hospital No. 4 (Mykolaiv) — FRM doctor, neurologist, clinical speech therapist, dietitian, nurse, physical therapist, occupational therapist
Moderator — MDC representative.
• 15:30 – 16:00 — Summary, recommendations, information about participation certificates and closing of the webinar.