VOICE DISORDERS (VOD-301) SLP: Course Outline

• LOWER MOTOR NEURON DISORDERS/FLACCID DYSARTHRIA

• myasthenia gravis

• brainstem disorders

• peripheral disorders

• UPPER MOTOR NEURON DISORDERS

• spastic dysarthria

• pseudobulbar palsy

• cerebral palsy 

• PSP (progressive supranuclear palsy )

• unilateral upper motor neuron dysarthria

• apraxia of speech

• CEREBELLAR DISORDERS/ATAXIC DYSARTHRIA •

Friedreich's ataxia

• OPCA

• BASAL GANGLIA DISORDERS

• hypokinetic dysarthria

• Parkinson's disease

• hyperkinetic dysarthria

• Huntington's disease

• Tourette's syndrome

• MULTIPLE LESION SITES/MIXED DYSARTHRIA

• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

• Multiple sclerosis

• Multiple systems atrophy (MSA)

• ASSESSMENT OF MOTOR SPEECH DISORDERS

• motor speech exam

• specific assessment protocols for dysarthria & apraxia

• differential diagnosis

• INTERVENTION PLANNING

• general approaches to management of motor speech disorders

• selection & sequencing of treatment goals

• TREATMENT METHODS: A SYMPTOM-BASED APPROACH FOR DYSARTHRIA

• managing respiratory deficits

• managing phonatory deficits

• managing resonance deficits

• managing articulatory deficits

• managing prosodic deficits

• communication-oriented treatment

• DEVELOPMENTAL SPEECH DISORDERS;

Nature and assessment of developmental dysarthria, phonological disorder and developmental verbal dyspraxia

• ACQUIRED APRAXIA OF SPEECH:

Models, controversies, interventions and outcomes. 

• Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia: Description, assessment and classification; associated factors and consequences; approaches to assessment: structuring and implementing assessment.

• TREATMENT APPROACHES FOR APRAXIA OF SPEECH.

• DEFINITION

,Review of Anatomy of the respiratory, phonatory and resonatary systems

• Development of voice and factors influencing

• Theories of phonation

• Characteristics of normal voice. Physiological, acoustical, and Aerodynamic correlates of voice.

• EVALUATION OF VOICE AND IMPLICATIONS TO ABNORMAL VOICE.

• Definition of normal and abnormal voice

• Causes and classification of abnormal voice.

• Incidence and prevalence of abnormal voice.

• Causes, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and therapy for

• Hysterical Aphonia

• Spasmodic dysphonia

• PlicaVentricularis

• Mutational voice disorders

• Diplophonia

• VOCAL HYPERFUNCTIONAL DISORDERS

• Vocal abuse

• Vocal Nodule, vocal polyp,

• contact ulcer

• Neurological problems resulting in voice disorders

• Paralysis of the vocal cords, causes, types, characteristics, differential diagnosis and management.

• VOICE DISORDERS IN OTHER CONDITIONS:

• Voice disorders related to resonatory problems

• Voice problems in conditions like Cerebral palsy, Hearing impaired, mentally retarded, Cleft lip and palate

• Voice problems in Endocrine disorders

• Voice problems in geriatrics

• CONGENITAL VOICE DISORDERS. • RESONATORY DISORDERS,

• hypernasality,

• hyponasality,

• causes, 

• characteristics

• Management.

• EVALUATIVE PROCEDURES AND INSTRUMENTATION FOR:

• Invasive procedures – endoscopic procedures

• Non-invasive (Acoustic, perceptual, aerodynamic, Electro Glotto Gram, Inverse

• filtering procedures)

• MANAGEMENT OF THE PROBLEMS OF PROFESSIONAL VOICE USERS. LARYNGECTOMY

• Definition incidence and prevalence

• Causes and symptoms of laryngeal cancer

• Types and characteristics of laryngectomy surgery

• Total laryngectomy, definition, characteristics, associated problems

• Assessment of laryngectomy

MANAGEMENT OF LARYNGECTOMY

• Esophageal speech – anatomy, candidacy, types of air intake procedures speech characteristics in esophageal speech.

• Tracheo esophageal speech – anatomy, candidacy, different types of TEP, fitting of prosthesis, speech characteristics, complications in TEP.

• Artificial larynx – different types, selection of artificial larynx, speech characteristics.

Pharyngeal speech, bucal speech, ASAI speech, gastric speech

• Pre and postoperative counseling