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SOURCE DYSARTHRIA 2ND EDITION

SOURCE DYSARTHRIA 2ND EDITION | Special Education

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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:

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

SOURCE DYSARTHRIA 2ND EDITION

  • Publisher: Pro-Ed Inc
  • Grade Level: All
  • Item #: 31741

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