Clinical Topics
Problems with communication that have an underlying cause in a cognitive deficit rather than a primary language or speech deficit.
What is a Cognitive-Communication Disorder?
Specific strategies that clinicians use to change the timing or strength of particular movements of swallowing.
Swallowing exercises
Object naming, word finding, fluency, grammar and syntax, receptive language
What is language?
A procedure that is used to assess areas surrounding the voice box and opening of the esophagus, through the use of a small flexible telescope.
What is Fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES)?
A condition in which there is intermittent adduction of the vocal folds that interferes with breathing.
What is Inducible Laryngeal Obstruction or Paradoxical vocal fold movement (PVFM)?
Training that focuses on improving task complexity by targeting the ability to carry out two competing tasks simultaneously.
What is Dual Task Training?
Immediate recall, short term recall, long term recall, working recall, procedural recall
What is Memory?
An X-ray procedure that looks at the anatomic structures in your head and neck area to make sure they are working properly while an individual is chewing, drinking, and swallowing
What is a Modified Barium Swallow Study?
A motor speech disorder in which the muscles that are used to produce speech are damaged, paralyzed, or weakened.
What is Dysarthria?
Training that uses goal-setting strategies to facilitate learning and behavioral success.
What is Metacognitive Skills Training?
What is Attention?
A pressure threshold device used to strengthen the muscles used for respiration, phonation, and swallowing.
What is Expiratory Muscle Strength Training (EMST)?
A language disorder that results from damage to portions of the brain that are responsible for language.
What is Aphasia?
Voice treatments designed to maximize phonatory and respiratory function using a set of simple tasks.
What is Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) or Phonation Resistance Training Exercises (PhoRTE)?
What is Social Cognition?
This therapy uses a small electrical current, passing through external electrodes on the neck, to stimulate the muscles responsible for swallowing.
What is VitalStim/Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES)?
A motor speech disorder that reflects an impaired capacity to plan or program sensorimotor commands necessary for directing speech movements.
What is Apraxia of Speech?
Communication devices, systems, strategies and tools that support a person who has difficulties communicating using speech.
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
Planning, Decision-making, Working memory, Responding to Feedback, Inhibition, and Thought Flexibility
A biofeedback device used to exercise and measure tongue strength and endurance.
What is a Tongueometer?