Description: This new edition provides a refresher on the neurology of dysarthria as well as current information and lots of helpful tools for assessment, treatment planning, and treatment techniques. The approach is organized around a perceptual framework, meaning it is based on using your listening skills to help make decisions about diagnosis and treatment (in contrast to using instrumental assessment). The information helps you: -understand the interrelationships among respiration, phonation, resonance, articulation, and prosody -determine possible causes for the observed symptoms -incorporate long-term goals of intelligibility, comprehensibility, efficiency, and naturalness The author explains the intricacies of dysarthria evaluation and gives guidelines for a differential diagnosis. A description of each type of dysarthria includes: -possible medical diagnoses associated neurological symptoms and reflexes -typical patient complaints -tasks to help distinguish the particular type of dysarthria Updates in this edition include the latest information on: -oral-motor exercises—what they do or don't do for improved speech intelligibility -instrumentation -measuring outcomes of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and efficiency treatment activities for comprehensibility and efficiency -coding and billing for treatment -dysarthria in children

Series: The Source

Author: Nancy Swigert

Publisher: Linguisystems

Year Published: 2011

Grade: Birth to Adult

Format: SOFTCOVER