Motor Speech Disorders (MSDL-701): Course Content

Learning Outcome:

At the end of this course student will be able to:

 Categories the underlying anatomical & physiological causes of motor speech disorders

 Analyze and apply methods for assessing and identifying the nature and severity of motor speech disorders.

 Demonstrate therapy strategies to alleviate or circumvent communication difficulties.

 Correlate literature-based, best practice core competencies with inter professional education and collaborative practice.

 Apply core competencies and rehabilitate the functional speech of patients through management.

Course Content

 Defining, Understanding, and Categorizing Motor Speech Disorders

 Neurologic Bases of Motor Speech and Its Pathologies

 Speech motor development

 Muscles and motor control

 Review of neural basis site of lesion

 Motor speech clinical assessment

 Cranial Nerve Assessment

 Informal Assessment

 Formal Assessment

 Flaccid Dysarthria

 Spastic Dysarthria

 Ataxic Dysarthria

 Hypokinetic Dysarthria

 Hyperkinetic Dysarthria

 Unilateral Upper Motor Neuron Dysarthria

 Mixed Dysarthria

 Neurogenic Mutism

 Other Neurogenic Speech Disturbances

 Acquired Psychogenic and Related Neurogenic Speech Disorders

 Differential Diagnosis

 Managing Motor Speech Disorders: General Principles

 Intervention procedures and protocols for Dysarthria

 Managing the different type of Dysarthria

 Managing Other Neurogenic Speech Disturbances

 Managing Acquired Psychogenic and Related Nonorganic Speech

 Use of AI in assessment and diagnostic procedures in MS