Dysarthria in children: good places to start in SLT...

Map Branches

• Posture / physical management
  • liason
    • Physiotherapy
    • Occupational therapy
  • breath support for
  • physical effort
  • Opportunities for interaction
• FOCUS 1:
  • interaction
    • Respond to natural speech attempts
• FOCUS 2:
  • Comprehensibility of speech
    • Supplementation?
      • AAC
        • age appropriate
        • ability appropriate
• Decision making
  • guidelines
    • Dowden 1997
      • Group 4
        • Work on speech?
        • occasional breakdown
        • speech
          • main mode
      • Group 3
        • AAC
          • certain situations
          • Back up
        • speech
          • significant mode
      • Group 2
        • speech
          • AAC/speech combination
          • basic needs
      • Group 1
        • Needs
          • AAC
        • intelligibility
          • strangers
          • (untitled branch)
        • speech
          • 
      • 4 groups

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