Motor Speech Disorders: Diagnosis & Treatment by Ph.D., Dona Freed Donald B

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This highly readable and uncomplicated text offers an examination of the basics of motor speech disorders. In its simple, straight-forward style, it provides a review of ancient case reports that seem to involve speech or language disorders; this acts as a historical introduction to the study of motor speech disorders. The text discusses how speech-language pathologists evaluate these disorders. Without producing overwhelming details, the text offers an introduction to the human motor system as well as providing information on six pure dysarthrias, mixed dysarthria, apraxia of speech. All chapters on dyarthria and apraxia contain information on etiology, characteristics, and treatment so the student has all desired information on a given disorder easily accessible. This must-have text concentrates on topics that are most essential for a student's understanding of these disorders. In addition, the accompanying CD-ROM augments the text with real-life case examples of the various motor speech disorders.

Geralyn M. Schulz

This book and CD-ROM combination is designed to present graduate students and beginning speech-language pathologists with the basics of motor speech disorders. The author attempts to cover the intricacies of motor speech disorders at a more introductory level and in so doing omits the neurophysiologic complexity inherent in these disorders. However, there are other texts on the market that convey the neurophysiologic complexities such as Duffy's Motor Speech Disorders: Substrates, Differential Diagnosis, and Management (Mosby-Year Book, Inc, 1995). The appropriate audience is graduate students and beginning speech-language pathologists. This is a valuable addition as an introductory text, and the accompanying CD-ROM makes this contribution truly valuable. On the CD-ROM users will find examples of various cases of motor speech disorders and clear exemplars and explanations for the speech disturbances of each. As mentioned, information on the neurophysiologic complexity of these disorders is lacking as is, at times, the most current information on medical and speech therapy techniques for treating these disorders. For example, the chapter on hypokinetic dysarthria lacks information regarding the latest surgical treatments and the Lee Silvermatt Voice Treatment (Remig, 1995, 1996). This text and accompanying CD-ROM are valuable tools to introduce students to the motor speech disorders and I would recommend it for high level undergraduates and beginning graduate students. It would also be a valuable resource for speech language therapists who may wish to reacquaint themselves with these disorders.

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Reviewer:Geralyn M. Schulz, PhD, CCC-SLP (George Washington University)
Description:This book and CD-ROM combination is designed to present graduate students and beginning speech-language pathologists with the basics of motor speech disorders.
Purpose:The author attempts to cover the intricacies of motor speech disorders at a more introductory level and in so doing omits the neurophysiologic complexity inherent in these disorders. However, there are other texts on the market that convey the neurophysiologic complexities such as Duffy's Motor Speech Disorders: Substrates, Differential Diagnosis, and Management (Mosby-Year Book, Inc, 1995) .
Audience:The appropriate audience is graduate students and beginning speech-language pathologists.
Features:This is a valuable addition as an introductory text, and the accompanying CD-ROM makes this contribution truly valuable. On the CD-ROM users will find examples of various cases of motor speech disorders and clear exemplars and explanations for the speech disturbances of each. As mentioned, information on the neurophysiologic complexity of these disorders is lacking as is, at times, the most current information on medical and speech therapy techniques for treating these disorders. For example, the chapter on hypokinetic dysarthria lacks information regarding the latest surgical treatments and the Lee Silvermatt Voice Treatment (Remig, 1995, 1996) .
Assessment:This text and accompanying CD-ROM are valuable tools to introduce students to the motor speech disorders and I would recommend it for high level undergraduates and beginning graduatestudents. It would also be a valuable resource for speech language therapists who may wish to reacquaint themselves with these disorders.

Booknews

For graduate students and beginning speech-language pathologists, Freed (communicative sciences and disorders, California State U.- Fresno) seeks to present the complex neurological and clinical aspects of eight motor speech disorders as clearly as possible. He includes treatment suggestions for each disorder in the chapter on it, rather than bunching them up in a separate chapter. He also includes chapters on the history, evaluation, and the motor system. He includes a glossary without pronunciation guides. The CD-ROM provides real-life examples of the disorders described. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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