Management of Motor Speech Disorders in Children and Adults

 Eleven years after the publication of the landmark first edition, an updated, more comprehensive edition is now available. Incorporating information about both dysarthria and dyspraxia of speech in children and adults, it provides an in-depth and cohesive approach to clinical examination and treatment planning in motor speech disorders.

Although the text is a rich source of medical and research information, the emphasis remains on the clinical situations that speech & language therapists will encounter in daily work with individuals with motor speech disorders.
Reviews the nature and speech characteristics of a variety of diagnoses such as cerebral palsy, developmental dyspraxia, stroke, TBI, Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, multiple sclerosis and more.
Describes techniques for assessment and treatment for a broad range of motor speech disorders.