Motor Speech Disorders

Catalog description

This course focuses on speech changes triggered by neurological disease or head trauma. Students learn to distinguish among various types of dysarthria and apraxia of speech through a hypothesis-driven approach and evidence-based framework. Students acquire skills for making diagnoses, constructing hierarchies, identifying potential treatments, and estimating prognosis. The course uses a patient-centered approach to explore the impact of multicultural and psychosocial factors on the adult patient's participation in rehabilitation.