Dysarthria Correcting a Speech Disorder Research Paper

Ease up a range of motion, and foster muscle control. They are said to be used before or together with actual speech production treatment. The evaluation found that these methods and procedures are questionable in matters concerning the implied cause of developmental speech sound disorders, the neurophysiologic differences between the limbs and oral musculature, the development of new theories of movement and movement control, and the sparseness of research on these methods and procedure (Ruscello).

Neuromuscular Treatments

A review of the theoretical foundation for these treatments revealed limited empirical support to validate its use (Clark, 2003). It also showed that clinicians did not have sufficient foundational knowledge to judge the reliability of these treatment strategies. The treatment strategies consisted of strength training to alleviate dysarthria and/or dysphagia. Their theoretical foundations included active exercises, passive exercises, and physical modalities. The techniques address neuromuscular impairments in the limb muscles. They were to be applied to speech and swallow muscles. The key issues set up were the selection of treatment targets, specific training, progression and recovery. The factors claimed to influence the potential effectiveness of passive exercises and physical modalities and additional issues that contributed to the controversy concerning oral motor therapies were presented and investigated (Clark).

Support Research on Speech Language Pathology

This research assessed the effectiveness of the intervention delivered by speech and language pathologists to children with disarthric speech, which developed from acquired brain injury (Morgan & Vogel, 2008). Acquired brain injury or ABI spans etiologies, which include cerebrovascular accident, brain tumor, and traumatic brain injury. ABI is a common cause of disability among children and frequently associated with dysarthria. The authors reviewed literature at Central, Medline, Cinahl, Embase, and Eric databases from 1972 to 2007. From the gathered literature, the research group considered randomized controlled trials and quasi-experimental design studies of children 13-16 years old and with acquired dysarhtria. They were groups by etiology. Each author separately assessed the titles and abstracts for relevance and then chose all potentially relevant articles.Only 3 were selected from 2,091 titles and abstracts identified. The rest did not include dysarhtia in their discussion and were diagnostic or descriptive papers and concerning adults rather than children. Some sources were excluded for not using RCT or quasi-randomized method. Five were again identified and taken from the bibliography of the Murdock 1999 paper. All were excluded as they did not include research populations without ABI, adults with dysathria or an inappropriate design. No studies met the criteria. The authors concluded the lack of critical studies that addressed the effective treatment of dysarthria in children with ABI. The lack may be because of a lack of data or understanding of its history, lack of diagnostic classification system and the heterogeneity of etiologies and the pediatric types of dysarthria (Morgan & Vogel).

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