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Ms Katina Swan

Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 3323
Email: k.swan@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO21.539  

Overview of role

Katina is a Lecturer in Speech Pathology in the School of Medical and Health Sciences.

Current Teaching

  • SPE2210 Impact of Communication and Swallowing Disorders
  • SPE3128 Neurogenic Language and Cognitive Communication
  • SPE3125 Assessment and Management of Swallowing disorders

Background

Katina graduated with a Bachelor of Speech Pathology from the University of Newcastle in 2010. She has worked as a speech pathologist in schools, community centres, aged care facilities and as an NDIS provider. The majority of her clinical work has been in hospitals in the ACT, QLD and WA, across the continuum of acute care to rehabilitation and community care. She has worked with both adults and children with dysphagia and feeding disorders. She has special training in instrumental assessments for dysphagia, videofluoroscopic swallowing studies (VFSS) and flexible endoscopic evalutions of swallowing (FEES) and co-authored the 2024 Speech Pathology Australia practice guideline for VFSS. She completed post-graduate honours with distinction at James Cook University in QLD in 2013 and is currently completing a PhD at Curtin University entitled ‘Validation of a Visuoperceptual Measure for the Analysis of Videofluoroscopic Swallow Studies for Adults with Dysphagia’.

Katina is a reviewer for the Stroke Foundation's Living Guidelines for dysphagia management and conducts peer reviews for the journal of Dysphagia. Katina has published research in the area of dysphagia, psychometrics, aphasia, dementia and hospital food services in national and international journals, and presented at national (Speech Pathology Australia) and international conferences (the European Society for Swallowing Disorders).

Katina has been a lecturer at Edith Cowan University since 2021 as part of the Speech Pathology teaching team. She supervises honours students and continues to work part-time clinically in specialist instrumental dysphagia assessment.

Professional Associations

  • Stroke Foundation, Australian and New Zealand Living Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management. 2022 - current
  • Speech Pathology Australia. 2010 - current

Research Areas and Interests

Katina’s research interests are in dysphagia and mental health, with a special focus on instrumental assessments for dysphagia and pharmacological, respiratory and behaviourial treatments for dysphagia. She also researches assessment and psychometrics.

Research Grants

  • SJGMPPH Hospital Management Committee Research Seed Funding Grants. Project: Enteral nutrition following bedside clinical swallow assessment compared to instrumental swallow assessment: a comparison study of duration and cost analysis of practice patterns 2024 - $4,000
  • WA Health Chief Allied Health Office: PPP Allied Health Capacity Building Grants. Project: The impact of non-invasive mechanical ventilation on swallowing physiology: a systematic review 2024 - $3000

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Speech Pathology with Honours, James Cook University, 2013.
  • Bachelor of Speech Pathology, The University of Newcastle, 2010.

Research Outputs

2023

Journal Articles

  • Cordier, R., Speyer, R., Langmore, S., Denman, D., Swan, K., Farneti, D. (2023). Development Of A Visuoperceptual Measure For Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation Of Swallowing (V-Fees) In Adults With Oropharyngeal Dysphagia: An International Delphi Study. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 12(12), article number 3875. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm12123875.
  • Swan, K., Speyer, R., Scharitzer, M., Farneti, D., Brown, T., Woisard, V., Cordier, R. (2023). Measuring What Matters In Healthcare: A Practical Guide To Psychometric Principles And Instrument Development. Frontiers in Psychology, 14(2023), article number 1225850. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1225850.
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