Description
Ages: Birth-Adult
This second 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 Source® for Dysarthria–Second Edition 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 include:
- 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
This e-book comes with 120 printable pages (in PDF format) of hands-on therapy tools:
- Perceptual Dysarthria Evaluation (adult and pediatric forms)
- informal evaluation forms for respiration, phonation, resonance, articulation, and prosody
- case history form
- 80 pages of word and sentence lists, reading passages, exercises, and activities to develop respiration, phonation, resonance, articulation, and prosody
- educational handouts
- activities for improving intelligibility and comprehensibility
E-Book Features and Benefits
- Accessible from any device with Internet access
- Search and find using keywords
- Add notes and bookmarks as you read
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168 pages • E-Book • ©2010