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 Editionapproach 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 exerciseswhat 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

The book comes with 120 printable pages 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

To see more of this product's contents:

• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• References
• Sample Pages
• About the Author

168-page book with an additional 120 printable pages (evaluation tools and therapy activities) • ©2010