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Mind Maps By Rowena

Document: Research project: normal swallowing

mindmaps describing the various sections of my MSC research project.

Tags: project research normal swallowing slt

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

A very basic rule of thumb map for starting to manage dysarthria in a paediatric population.

Highlights importance of working on:
1) physical management / posture
2) interaction
3) comprehensibility of speech
And looks at Dowden's 1997 guidelines for initial management very briefly.

Tags: slt dysarthria medicine paediatric

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

Document: Paediatric Dysarthria management overview

Does what it says on the tin...

Have included outcome measures in the overview map.

The overview map contains links to other relevant maps

Tags: slt medicine dysarthria paediatric

Mind Map: Paed Dysarthria Management: options overview

Mind Map: Paediatric Dysarthria management: basics

Document: approaches, assesments and interventions for dysphagia

SLT approaches, assesments and interventions for dysphagia all on one page!

Could really do to be 3 separate maps which I might produce as a revision exercise.

Tags: slt dysphagia medicine

Mind Map: approaches, assessments and interventions for swallowing disorders

Document: 3 pharyngeal stage processes critical to preventing aspiration

This map provides a reminder about the importance of:

1) lifting and tilting of the larynx
2) vocal fold closure for airway protection
3) cough protection

during the pharyngeal stage of swallowing. Basically these are why your food rarely goes down wrong if you have a normal swallow

Tags: slt medicine dysphagia

Mind Map: 3 pharyngeal stage processes critical to prevention of aspiration and choking

Document: Paediatric Dysarthria

Includes:
basics
Common Paediatric Dysarthria Profiles
Components of Paediatric Dysarthria Assessment
Scales and assessments for Paediatric Dysarthria
Communication Functions

To be followed by a map looking at treatment approaches

Tags: slt medicine dysarthria paediatric children

Mind Map: Common Paed. dysarthria profiles

Mind Map: assessment of paediatric dysarthria 1: components

Document: 3 psychosocial models

Explores models of:
- intentional causality
- learning (Conditioning and Cognitive)
- Vulberability (diathesis model)

In relation to understanding underlying theory of psychosocial research into mental health conditions

Tags: slt medicine models psychosocial

Document: Reminiscence therapy for Dementia

This explores the:
aims
format
planning
evidence (Cochrane review 2005)
for reminiscence therapy, one of the most popular group and individual interventions for dementia.

Tags: slt medicine dementia therapy

Document: assessments for dementia variants

Looks at Fronto-temporal dementia and variants (Semantic Dementia, Primary Progressive Aphasia), Lewy Body Dementia, and very briefly Vascular dementia
Explores the Frontal Behaviour Inventory (FBI) and mentions the Hachinski scale for Vascular Dementia.

Highlights the fact that semantic dementia is most often misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's Disease (Snowden 2005)

Tags: slt medicine dementia assessment

Mind Map: Assessments for dementia variants

Document: Assessing CCD in Dementia Summary

This is the first of a series of mindmaps looking at the assessment process in Dementia as relevant to SLT.

This map examines the basic purpose of assesssing Cognitive Communication Difficulties in dementia and gives some pointers for assessment.

The next map will go into more detail re. recommended assessment tools

Tags: slt medicine dementia assessment

Mind Map: Assessing CCD in Dementia:summary

Document: Perceptual features of hypokinetic dysarthria (parkinson's disease)

Explore the perceptual features of the hypokinetic dysarthria associated with PD in arenas of:
voice
fluency
language
articulation

Tags: slt dysarthria parkinsonsdisease

Mind Map: Perceptual features: hypokinetic dysarthria

Document: Childhood dysarthria direct treatment

Looks at different direct treatment options for dysarthria in children.

Includes:
- physiological management approaches
- Oro-motor packages
- whole system approach

and evaluates advantages/disadvantages

Tags: slt medicine dysarthria paediatric

Mind Map: childhood dysarthria: direct treatment

Mind Map: How influences therapy mindset

Document: Dysphagia treatment goals

Looks at the basic goals for treatment of swallowing difficulties and how SLTs can get there...via combined techniques, exercises and other means.

Tags: slt medicine dysphagia

Document: Basis for treatment decisions in dysphagia

Looking at the various factors an SLT might consider when evaluating different treatement options for a patient with dysphagia.

Tags: slt medicine dysphagia

Mind Map: Treatment decision making in dysphagia: based on...

Document: Dysphagia in Parkinson's Disease

Looks at swallowing disorders in Parkinson's disease.

Should be viewed in conjunction with other mindmaps looking at dyspghagia, especially approaches to intervention, assessment and treatment

Tags: slt medicine dysphagia parkinsonsdisease

Document: Life events and difficulties: exploring common stressors

This is another mindmap in the mental health area of knowledge. It explores child and adult stressors, and the types of goals these life events frustrate.

Tags: slt medicine mentalhealth models

Document: viva notes structure

This mindmap outlines the recommended structure for notes on an SLT video Viva.

Tags: slt medicine viva

Document: Dementia therapy approaches

Looks at the:
- guiding principles
- specific therapy approaches
- importance of task design
- other factors facilitating learning in dementia patients

This will be followed by 2 further maps looking at 1) reminiscence therapy and 2) neural plasticity principles, which this map mentions only briefly.

Tags: slt medicine dementia therapy

Document: 3 instruments for assessing CCD in AD dementia

Explores the:
Arizona Battery for Communication in Dementia (ABCD)
- screening (delayed story retelling subtest)
- in depth ax
Functional Linguistic Communication Inventory.

Other forms of dementia will be covered in another map

Tags: slt medicine assessment dementia

Mind Map: 3 instruments for assessing CCD in Dementia

Document: Communication Disability Profile (CDP)

A mindmap exploring the CDP, including:
authors
model rationales
management post ax
format
advantages
disadvantages

Tags: slt aphasia assessments

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