Diagnosing Dysarthria in Adults: A New Speech Assessment Method for Polish, English and Spanish

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Beyond Language, Volume 3

Author: Izabela Gatkowska

This particular volume will be of interest to diagnosticians, clinical speech pathologists, linguists, and all those who need to know (1) how damage to the nervous system influences the entire speech mechanism of adults, thus impairing their oral communication, and ‒ more importantly ‒ (2) how acute awareness of speech changes may help pinpoint the specific type of speech disorder and contribute to an earlier diagnosis of a neurodegenerative disease.

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“DYSARTHRIA—a collective name for a group of speech disorders resulting from disturbances in muscular control over the speech mechanism due to damage of the central or peripheral nervous system. It designates problems in oral communication due to paralysis, weakness or incoordination of the speech musculature” (Darley, Aronson, Brown 1969: 246).

FROM THE BOOK:

Changes in the clinical picture of speech may sometimes become evident before full manifestation of an underlying neurodegenerative condition, therefore contributing to an earlier neurological diagnosis. An accurate diagnosis of dysarthria may be indicative of a particular type of a neurodegenerative disease and thus confirm a diagnosis from the neurologist, or—in the case of an unclear presentation—it may help resolve medical doubts […]

Izabela Gatkowska proposes a new SPEECH ASSESSMENT METHOD (SAM), grounded in her clinical experience with dysarthria, awareness of diagnostically important features, and the practical need to confine logopedic examination to tasks diagnostically most important and maximally tolerable by the patient. When diligently applied, the new SAM allows the diagnostician to identify overlapping dysarthric symptoms in greater detail and, when repeated, analyze their dynamics over time.

The point of departure for the current study is an analysis of the speech impairments observed in Polish adult neurological patients. Rooted in language, developed and tested in a neurological clinic, this original method of diagnosing dysarthric speech disorders shall be applicable for linguists, psychologists, and clinicians who work with patients speaking Polish, English, or Spanish. Dysarthria, after all, is a neurodegeneratively-conditioned speech disorder whose diagnosis is independent of the patient’s mother tongue.

Published in

2019

Series

Volume

3

Editor

,

Edition

1st

ISBN

978-1-68346-181-4

# of pages

127

Binding

perfect bound

Dimensions

148 x 210 mm

Weight

0.35 kg

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