The Source® for Dysarthria-Second Edition E-Book

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

To see more of this product's contents:

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

168 pages E-Book ©2010