Development and Validation of the SWADOC Tool

"The tool explores some oral and pharyngeal components of swallowing as well as a range of prerequisite and related components of swallowing in DOC patients.~It is composed of an average of 50 qualitative items and a subsection named SWADOC-scored comprising 8 quantitative items."

"Facial Oral Tract Therapy Swallowing Assessment of Saliva : the results of the SWADOC-scored in one of the sessions will be compared to the FOTT Swallowing Assessment of Saliva (FOTT-SAS) (27). The test is based on 7 questions under which if items 1-4 are answered Yes and items 5-7 are answered No, oral intake should be initiated. The FOTT-SAS includes items that can be scored based on the administration of the SWADOC tool. In that respect, no additional administration will be required"