BASLP 6th Semester Notes » Paper 1: Motor Speech Disorders in Adults
Unit 2: Assessment and Diagnosis of Dysarthria
- Subjective assessment of dysarthria:
- Assessment of respiratory, phonatory, resonatory, articulatory errors
- Assessment of prosodic features
- Assessment of speech intelligibility
- Scales, protocols and tests used for subjective assessment of dysarthria
- Instrumental analysis of speech in dysarthria: Acoustic, kinematic and physiological
- Advantages and disadvantages of subjective and instrumental procedures in the assessment of dysarthria in adults
- Differential diagnosis of acquired motor speech disorders in adults:
- Dysarthria and verbal apraxia
- Dysarthria and functional articulation disorders
- Dysarthria and aphasia
- Apraxia of speech and aphasia
- Dysarthria from other allied disorders such as agnosia, alexia, agraphia etc.
- Apraxia from other allied disorders such as agnosia, alexia, agraphia etc.
- Assessment of feeding, swallowing and related issues in persons with dysarthria
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