🏨✨ Planning your trip to #ESSD2026? Now's the time to book your stay in Leiden! 🇳🇱 Leiden, Netherlands | 19–23 October 2026 🛏️ Recommended hotels & booking info: essd2026.org/accommodation/ 📝 Full travel details: essd2026.org/travel-infor...

🚀 The #ESSD2026 Scientific Programme is now available! 📅 19-23 October 2026 🔗 View the programme: essd2026.org/scientific-p... 🎟️ Early Bird registration is open: essd2026.org/registration/ #Dysphagia #SwallowingDisorders #ESSD2026

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🔄 Precourse 10 spotlight: Assessment to Action Bridging diagnostic findings with practical treatment planning — turn your assessment data into effective, individualised care. 📍 Leiden, Netherlands 📝 Register now: essd2026.org/pre-courses/ #Dysphagia #SwallowingDisorders #ESSD2026

🧠 Precourse 9 spotlight: Think Swallow A case-based precourse focused on clinical reasoning and decision-making in complex dysphagia presentations. 📍 Leiden, Netherlands 📝 Save your spot: essd2026.org/pre-courses/ #Dysphagia #ThinkSwallow #SwallowingDisorders #ESSD2026

👵 Precourse 8 spotlight: Geriatric Dysphagia Specialised approaches to assessing and managing swallowing disorders in older adults, grounded in current best practice. 📍 Leiden, Netherlands | Ahead of #ESSD2026 📝 Limited seats — register: essd2026.org/pre-courses/ #Geriatrics

🍽️ Precongress Course 7 Spotlight: Nutrition and Dysphagia 😋 Discover the powerful connection between nutrition and swallowing disorders through a truly multidisciplinary lens. 🚀 Register now: essd2026.org/2026/06/12/n... #Dysphagia #Nutrition #SwallowingDisorders #IDDSI #ESSD2026

🩺 Precourse 6 spotlight: Swallowing Ultrasound Explore non-invasive ultrasound techniques for assessing swallowing function — an emerging, radiation-free tool for your clinical toolkit. 📍 Leiden, Netherlands 📝 Register here: essd2026.org/pre-courses/ #Dysphagia #Ultrasound #ESSD2026

👶 Precourse 5 spotlight: Paediatric Dysphagia From infant feeding difficulties to complex paediatric cases dedicated, practical training for clinicians working with children. 📍 Leiden, Netherlands 📝 Save your spot: essd2026.org/pre-courses/ #Dysphagia #Paediatric #ESSD2026

📈 Precourse 4 spotlight: High-Resolution Manometry (HRM) Learn to perform and interpret HRM for complex pharyngeal and oesophageal motility cases, with guided hands-on practice. 📍 Leiden, Netherlands 📝 Limited spaces! Reserve yours: essd2026.org/pre-courses/ #Dysphagia #Manometry #ESSD2026

❗ We have extended the deadline for submissions to our Members Research Archive. You still have time to be considered for the Q2 Best Paper Award! Winners will have FREE registration to the ESSD Annual Congress! Submit here: form.jotform.com/232253341453... Deadline: 29 July 2026

🫁 Precourse 3 spotlight: Tracheostomy Management Specialised, hands-on training for clinicians managing dysphagia in patients with a tracheostomy safety, decision-making, and multidisciplinary care. 📍 Leiden, Netherlands 📝 Register now: essd2026.org/pre-courses/ #ESSD2026

📽️🩻 Precourse 2 spotlight: Videofluoroscopic Swallowing Study (VFSS) Build practical, evidence-based skills in one of the gold-standard techniques for instrumental swallowing assessment. 📍 Leiden, Netherlands 📝 Save your spot: essd2026.org/pre-courses/ #Dysphagia #VFSS #SwallowingDisorders #ESSD2026

🔬🎓 Precourse 1 spotlight: FEES Certification Course Master Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES) and earn your ESSD certification, guided by expert faculty in hands-on, case-based sessions. 📝 Limited seats! Reserve yours: essd2026.org/pre-courses/ #ESSD2026

📢 ESSD 2026 Abstract Notifications Have Been Sent! 📬 Thank you to everyone who submitted an abstract for #ESSD2026. 📥 If you have not received an update, please get in touch with the congress organizers. 📍 Leiden, Netherlands | 19–23 Oct 2026 🔗 essd2026.org #Dysphagia #SwallowingDisorders #ESSD2026

📣 New Publication alert! 📣 The ESSD Research Group has recently published a systematic review on Behavioural interventions and Botox injectsion for drooling, swallowing, feeding and oral-motor outcomes in children. 🔗: www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/15... #dysphagia #paediatrics

📣 We're thrilled to annouce the pre-congress courses for the ESSD 16th Annual Congress 2026 in Leiden, Netherlands!📣 More info and registration: essd2026.org/pre-courses/ #ESSD2026 #annualcongress #Leiden

The next #ESSD-#DGD joint webinar will be presenetd by Dr. Gero Lueg, on "#Geriatric Dysphagia: Why Single Findings Fail in Clinical Decision-Making". 📆: 29 July (English) & 30 July (German) at 18:30 CEST 🔗: essd.org/102nd-essd-d... 🔗 (German): pci.jotform.com/form/2617930...

We're thrilled to announce the first FREE Joint #DRS-#ESSD webinar this year! This webinar will feature award-winning research from both the DRS and the ESSD. 📆: 24 June 2026 (Wed) 6:00PM CEST/11AM CT 🔗: www.dysphagiaresearch.org/events/event... FREE for all. #dysphagia

Our 101st ESSD Webinar will be presented by Prof Emilia Michou on "Investigating the manifestation of dysphagia in neurodegeneration: the paradigm of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis" 📆: 17 June 2026 (Wed) 18:30 CEST 🔗: pci.jotform.com/form/2615447... #dysphagia #neurodegeneration #ALS

🎉 Exiciting news: we're offering another FEES course (in German) in Hochzirl, Austria! 📆 9 - 11 October 2026 📍Hochzirl, Austria 🔗https://essd.org/essd-fees-course-hochzirl-2026/ Don't miss this great opportunity to sharpen your FEES skills! #FEES #dysphagia #assessments #swallowing

📢 Dysphagia specialists — Early Bird Registration is NOW OPEN! Don’t miss out 📢 Join us this October in #Leiden for #ESSD2026. 📅 19–23 October 2026 🔗 Register early and secure your place: essd2026.org/registration/ ℹ️ Learn more: essd2026.org #Dysphagia #ESSD2026

📣 Our 100th webinar will be presented by Prof. Dr. Cornelius J. Werner on "Selection Bias in FEES Multi-Consistency Testing and its Correlation" 🔗English (27 May, 18:30 CEST): lnkd.in/gNeXTqaB 🔗German (28 May, 18:30 CEST): lnkd.in/gd4xxJEQ #ESSD #DGD

🎉ESSD Tulln FEES Course was successfully held on 24-26 April 2026! 🎉 A big thank you to all participants, instructors, and organizers for three intensive and productive days of hands-on FEES training. #FEES #Dysphagia #ESSD #ContinuingEducation

Our 99th ESSD webinar will be delivered by Prof. Dr. Tobias Warnecke on "New insights into dysphagia in Parkinson's disease" 📆 20 May 2026 (Wednesday) at 6:30 PM CET 🔗 pci.jotform.com/form/2611653... #Parkinsonsdisease #dysphagia

⏰ Last 2 days before the deadline! Abstract submissions for #ESSD2026 close on 26 April. Submit your work today and be part of ESSD 2026. 📝 kuonicongress.eventsair.com/16th-annual-... #CallForAbstracts #Dysphagia #SwallowingDisorders

📣 Update on #ESSD2026 The abstract submission deadline has now been extended to 26th of April 2026. Take advantage of the extra time to submit your work and be part of ESSD 2026. 📝 Submit your abstract: kuonicongress.eventsair.com/16th-annual-... #Dysphagia #SwallowingDisorders #CallForAbstracts

🎉Congratulations to our Q4 2025 ESSD Best Paper Award winner, Dr Bendix Labeit, for their paper titled "Oropharyngeal dysphagia: a narrative review towards an integrated neurogeriatric perspective" published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity. Full text: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🤝 Become a sponsor or exhibitor at #ESSD2026! Support innovation in dysphagia care and connect with a global community of experts. 📍 Leiden, Netherlands | 19–23 Oct 2026 🔗 essd2026.org/sponsors-exh... #Dysphagia #SwallowingDisorders #ESSD2026

A quick update for #ESSD2026 — abstracts can now be submitted until 19 April 2026. Make the most of the extension to submit your abstract and join us! 📝 kuonicongress.eventsair.com/16th-annual-... #Dysphagia #SwallowingDisorders #CallForAbstracts