Awareness, involvement and training in dysphagia management are essential to ensure that patients are appropriatelyassessed for dysphagia and provided with intervention. The study aimed to identify levels of awareness, involvement andtraining of medical officers in dysphagia management. A total of 51 medical officers from the family medicine, medical,otorhinolaryngology, surgery, and neurosurgery departments in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia participated in thestudy. Levels of awareness, involvement and training of medical officers in dysphagia management were reported usingdescriptive analysis. Results indicate that medical officers lacked awareness and training in dysphagia management.Referral rates to speech-language pathologists for dysphagia management were low with 58.4% of medical officers havinghad seldom or never referred patients. The results provide valuable information for addressing dysphagia managementin the hospital.

Speech-language therapists (SLTs) are experienced in recognising the symptoms and signs of speech-language disorders and can help the afflicted children overcome those disorders with appropriate intervention. Furthermore, with the increase in the number of children with special educational needs, teachers are expected to identify students with speech-language disorders, which is also a shared responsibility of SLTs. However, the teachers’ awareness and knowledge of speech-language therapy are relatively unknown. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the primary school teachers' awareness and knowledge of speech-language therapy services in Kota Bharu, Kelantan. A total of 105 primary school teachers participated in this survey-based study. The findings discovered that the teachers' awareness and knowledge were limited. Among the participants, only 25.7% indicated a high awareness and knowledge regarding the SLTs' roles, yet 68.6% of the teachers had never read about speech-language therapy, and 63.8% had never heard anything about SLPs previously. Consequently, more emphasis on awareness and knowledge of SLPs should be executed for schoolteachers. This will assist the schoolteachers in identifying children with special needs in need of SLT services in the future.