Evidence-Based Dysarthria Approaches to Use For Treatment

Imagine waking up one day suddenly unable to speak clearly.
Or on the opposite side of the spectrum - imagine being diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease and slowly losing the ability to express yourself in the way you once could.
This is the reality for people with dysarthria.
As SLPs, we know all too well the devastating impact that this can have on a person's ability to communicate.
So…what can we do to help our patients with dysarthria get the best possible outcomes from therapy?
In today’s video, we'll explore how to structure dysarthria therapy and examine a few evidence-based options for treating this challenging motor speech disorder.
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KEY MOMENTS IN THE EPISODE:
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00:00 Evidence Based Dysarthria Approaches To Use For Treatment
00:53 How To Structure Dysarthria Treatment
04:41 Restorative Dysarthria Treatment Approaches (Be Clear)
09:04 Compensatory Dysarthria Treatment
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CITED ARTICLES:
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. (n.d.). Dysarthria in Adults. (Practice Portal). Retrieved April 30, 2023 from www.asha.org/Practice-Portal/Clinical-Topics/Dysarthria-in-Adults/.
Park, S., Theodoros, D., Finch, E., & Cardell, E. (2016). Be Clear: A new intensive speech treatment for adults with nonprogressive dysarthria. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 25(1), 97-110. doi.org/10.1044/2015_ajslp-14...
Basilakos, A., Smith, K., Fillmore, P., Fridriksson, J., & Fedorenko, E. (2018). Functional characterization of the human articulation network. Cerebral cortex, 28(5), 1816-1830.
Duffy, J. R. (2013). Motor speech disorders: Substrates, differential diagnosis, and management. St. Louis, MO: Elsevier.
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