Full Description
Cutting-edge content helps you understand and manage motor speech disorders! Using the latest evidence-based research, Motor Speech Disorders, 5th Edition, covers everything from the neurologic bases and causes of disorders to examination, diagnosis, and rehabilitation. Chapters address the different types of dysarthria as well as apraxia of speech and other disorders. New to this edition are enhanced illustrations, revised case studies, and key points highlighting the most important information. Written by noted speech pathology educator Joseph R. Duffy, this text provides the foundational knowledge needed to diagnose and manage speech disorders even as it supports clinicians and researchers across related fields.
Cutting-edge research with an emphasis on evidence-based practice ensures that this book contains the most comprehensive and up-to-date look at the state of motor speech disorders
Logical three-part organization first covers the neurologic underpinnings of speech, then the various disorders resulting from problems in different parts of the nervous system, and then basic principles and disorder-specific management strategies
Summary boxes and tables offer easy access to important information such as the causes and characteristics of a disorder, aiding in differential diagnosis and management
Chapter summaries highlight each chapter's most important information
More than 400 literature references update clinically important information for each major part of the textbook
NEW! Revised case studies are included at the end of each chapter.
NEW! Enhanced illustrations throughout the text enhance your understanding of key concepts.
NEW! Key Points within each chapter concisely restate, amplify, or comment on the most critical information.
NEW! Enhanced eBook version - included with print purchase - allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud from the book on a variety of devices.
Contents
PART 1: Substrates
1. Defining, Understanding, and Categorizing Motor Speech Disorders
2. Neurologic Bases of Motor Speech and Its Disorders
3. Examination of Motor Speech Disorders
PART 2: The Disorders and Their Diagnoses
4. Flaccid Dysarthrias
5. Spastic Dysarthria
6. Ataxic Dysarthria
7. Hypokinetic Dysarthria
8. Hyperkinetic Dysarthrias
9. Unilateral Upper Motor Neuron Dysarthria
10. Mixed Dysarthrias
11. Apraxia of Speech
12. Neurogenic Mutism
13. Other Neurogenic Speech Disturbances
14. Functional (Psychogenic) and Related Speech Disorders
15. Differential Diagnosis
PART 3: Management
16. Managing Motor Speech Disorders: Broad Overview
17. Managing the Dysarthrias
18. Managing Apraxia of Speech
19. Managing Other Neurogenic Speech Disturbances
20. Managing Functional (Psychogenic) Speech Disorders
