CSD 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Motor Speech Disorders, Cerebral Palsy, Muscular Dystrophy
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Modify the environment to suit the motorically involved student: frequently review the child"s learning capabilities. Be aware of any chewing or swallowing dysfunctions. Encourage participation in all regular classroom activities, yet allow for special considerations. Be willing to assist the speech-language pathologist in providing speech and language stimulation or assistance in communicating: two neurologic speech problems are, dysarthria defined earlier. Assessment: standardized tests are available to assess apraxia of speech including, motorspeech evaluation (wertz, lapoint, & rosenbek, 1984) is, the apraxia battery for adults (aba-2) (dabul, 2000), typical tasks asked of patients include utterances. 1981): the dysarthria examination battery (deb) (drummond, 1993). Treatment: the slp"s goal is to help the person with a motor speech disorder to better manage his or her communication difficulties, therapeutic techniques are tailored to the patient"s needs and presenting disorder. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd: results in a complex pattern of interrelated problems in attention, behavior, organization, peer interactions, and social competence.