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Home of BiSSkApp – The ultimate solution for remote dysphagia rehabilitation.

18/09/2025

Opportunities like this are one of the reasons we 💛 being on the Speak and Swallow team!🤩

If you work in the dysphagia space, you've probably heard of Professor Maggie-Lee Huckabee, and her research and knowledge in this area. We certainly had - one of our team members even got her copy of "Dysphagia Following Stroke" signed! 🤩

Our team were grateful to get a practical demonstration of BiSSkApp, Professor Maggie-Lee's creation, which has totally changed the game in dysphagia treatment and management.

BiSSkApp allows patients to remotely access rehabilitation, creating a more accessible and effective treatment for people impacted by swallowing difficulties.

Professor Maggie Lee’s passion and dedication to improving client swallow outcomes has inspired our team tremendously.

17/09/2025

After six months of making waves (or waveforms), we’re excited to share that our flagship product BiSSkApp is now in use across public hospitals in Aotearoa New Zealand 🎉

Our Clinical Specialist Anneke and CEO Emma hit the road earlier this week to support the team from Nelson Hospital implement BiSSkApp, and get their first patient set up in their beautiful Motueka home. Not a bad view from the office!

Want to learn more about BiSSkApp? Join Anneke and Dr Maggie-Lee in our upcoming webinar! Link in comments 👇

12/09/2025

Our free webinar series is back! 🚨

Want to know how to level-up your approach to swallowing rehab? Join us for a live session with Dr Maggie-Lee Huckabee and Anneke Duyvestyn of Swallowing Technologies to talk strategies, programs, and all things BiSSkApp.

All are welcome to attend, and don’t forget to bring your questions for the Q+A!

📅 Wednesday 24 September 2025, 2pm AEST
📍 Online (via Microsoft Teams)
🔗 Register now via the link in the comments

10/09/2025

Effective swallowing isn’t always easy… and it’s definitely not a laughing matter – even for comedian Jeremy Corbett!

Huge thanks to Canterbury Tech for hosting us at their Summit yesterday. We loved catching up with old friends in the local tech community, meeting new ones, and showing everyone how BiSSkApp makes dysphagia rehab a little less tricky (and a lot more empowering).

29/08/2025

Ōtautahi Christchurch! Want to try BiSSkApp for yourself?
See our innovative dysphagia rehabilitation tool in action at Canterbury Tech's Tech Summit '25

Tuesday 9 September
Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre
'Show Us Your Tech' Zone

Limited tickets are still on sale. See you there!

27/08/2025

Here we go. Meet the brilliant Team Keith! Keith has PD and is set to become our first NDIS-funded BiSSkApp user in regional NSW. Remote Dysphagia Rehab at its best. Not shown is Keith’s wife Lyn who coordinates everything for all of us - right down to the saladas for our biscuit swallow test and the zip lock bags for those adhesive patches. Go Keith and Go Team!! Swallowing Technologies

08/08/2025

One of our favourite parts of the job? Delivering BiSSkApp straight into the hands of clinicians and patients who need it most.

Last month, Anneke, our new Clinical Specialist & Market Development Lead, hit the road with Clinical Director Maggie-Lee and CEO Emma – sights set on Timaru NZ, our latest hospital to get BiSSkApp up and running. 🚗 💨

We were blown away by the clinicians implementing BiSSkApp, Kate and Nikita, who quickly took to the system and its use as a tool for dysphagia rehabilitation – while still tailoring each program to their patients’ needs.

The best part? Seeing the impact first-hand – from a new patient so motivated by BiSSkApp they asked for extra weekend 'homework', and to Kate’s new SwalTech company slogan: “Eat your biscuit safely with BiSSkApp" 🍪

05/08/2025

Pausing for an end-of-month reflection on how hard our clients with PD work - and how good it feels when you provide swallowing therapies that allow them to see their progress. Reward for effort. Swallowing Technologies

31/07/2025

It’s been a big (and brisk!) few weeks at SwalTech HQ. Here’s what we’ve been up to:

Fresh faces! We’re thrilled to welcome three new humans to the team – bringing more brains, heart, and capacity to support our mission. Say hello to:
• Mia – Test Coordinator
• Cam – Full-Stack Software Engineer
• Anneke – Clinical Specialist and Market Development Lead

Midwinter motivation: At SwalTech, we encourage clinicians to find the sweet spot in BiSSkApp rehab – challenging, but doable. So… we took our own advice. A handful of brave souls took a midwinter ocean dip in freezing Christchurch temps. Challenging ✅ Doable ✅ Cold 🥶✅

And the kind of feedback that keeps us going from Dr Dijana Dragicevich at Sydney Swallowing Diagnostics:
“I’ve been using [BiSSkApp] with one of my clients for a month now. This not only tells us how much progress she is making, but also how difficult she finds it, how much she likes it and how many sessions she completed. Such great biofeedback! And, I have to say, I'm more impressed than I thought I would be. I don't have a lot of faith in most dysphagia rehabilitation regimes, but I'm definitely going to stick with this one.”

To everyone on this journey with us – thank you. We're so lucky to be reshaping dysphagia rehab alongside you.
Want to get involved? Head to our website to book a demo.

11/07/2025

Last week, our team farewelled Nick Burns – a cornerstone of SwalTech over the past year.

As our Sales and Marketing lead, Nick played a vital role in helping us establish our strategy in Australia. Bringing his valuable first-hand experience of working in healthtech, Nick quickly became one of the team, endlessly adapting to the needs of the ever-changing rollercoaster that is a start-up. 🎢

We’ll miss our resident Pierce Brosnan/Hugh Grant lookalike, golf champion, and sweet treat enthusiast – and we wish him all the best. If you're needing someone who is passionate about start-ups and can launch your tech into overseas markets, look no further!

01/07/2025

Today our hard-working client Martin became the first icare NSW client to secure funding for BiSSkApp home-based Dysphagia intervention. We can’t wait to see what Martin and his family will accomplish under the guidance of our clinician Patrick Mardini! Swallowing Technologies https://swaltech.com/bisskapp. Thankful to iCare for supporting this life changing therapy.

30/06/2025

Customer visits, demos, reconnecting with La Trobe University, and hosting a stall at the Speech Pathology Australia Conference – our recent trip to Australia was a packed (and inspiring) few days!

A big thank you to everyone who hosted us, stopped by, and shared their enthusiasm for BiSSkApp:
Sydney Adventist Hospital, La Trobe University, Southern Adelaide Local Health Network - SALHN, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Flinders University, Optimal Speech Pathology, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, The Alfred, Geelong Neuro Centre.

Curious about how we’re changing dysphagia rehab? Book a demo via our website – we’d love to show you more.
https://swaltech.com/bisskapp/book-a-demo/

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