The Source for Dysarthria Book

This new edition presents 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 organised around a perceptual framework, using 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 intricacies of dysarthria evaluation are explained and guidelines provided for a differential diagnosis. Descriptions of each dysarthria type include:

• possible medical diagnoses
• associated neurological symptoms and reflexes
• typical patient complaints
• tasks to help distinguish the particular type of dysarthria

Updates in this second edition include the most up to date  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

120 printable pages of hands-on therapy tools:

• Perceptual Dysarthria Evaluation (adult and paediatric forms)
• informal evaluation forms for respiration, phonation, resonance, articulation, and prosody
• case history form
• 80 pages of word/sentence lists, reading passages, exercises, and activities to develop respiration, phonation, resonance, articulation, and prosody
• educational handouts
• activities for improving intelligibility and comprehensibility