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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809331603321

Autore

Freed Donald B.

Titolo

Motor speech disorders : diagnosis and treatment / / Donald B. Freed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Diego, CA : , : Plural Publishing Inc., , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

9781635500950

9781635500967

1635500966

Edizione

[Third edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 pages)

Disciplina

616.855 $2 23

Soggetti

Articulation disorders - Diagnosis

Articulation disorders - Treatment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A brief historical review of motor speech disorders -- The motor system -- Evaluation of motor speech disorders -- Flaccid dysarthria -- Spastic dysarthria -- Unilateral upper motor neuron dysarthria -- Ataxic dysarthria -- Hypokinetic dysarthria -- Hyperkinetic dysarthria -- Mixed dysarthria -- Apraxia of speech.

Sommario/riassunto

For graduate students and beginning clinicians, this text offers a detailed yet streamlined introduction to motor speech disorders. It provides a brief historical overview of motor speech disorders, providing useful context for understanding the technology and methodology used by modern speech-language pathologists for evaluation and treatment. The text also includes a practical introduction to the human motor system and detailed coverage of six pure dysarthrias, mixed dysarthria, and apraxia of speech.