Curso

ONLINE COURSE – Sleep’s Speech Therapy: Basic and Advance Modules

The course is targeted to speech therapists and other Health professionals with interest in the treatment of sleep respiratory disorders. It comprises 2 modules which encompasses the main themes involving the basic knowledge of sleep and its disorders, with focus on physiopathology, phenotypes, clinical signs, severity, criteria for diagnostics and treatments for sleep’s obstructive apnea, as well as the practical procedures upon myofunctional evaluation and orofacial motricity, besides speech treatment’s protocols for the treatment of sleep’s respiratory disorders.

Course Objectives

To update the student in the basic topics of sleep medicine.
To instrumentalize the student about the evaluation and treatment of patients with sleep’s respiratory disorders with emphasis on speech therapy, allowing the application, during daily practice, of the classes’ acquired knowledge.

Observation: this course is provided only in Portuguese.