Assessment of Motor Speech Disorders

Dr. Nicole Lallini, SLT, Lecturer in SLP, Newcastle University (2011), Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists, (December 2011): "This book is an excellent resource, mostly for clinicians and researchers, but can also be used by speech and language therapy students interested in the area of acquired motor speech disorders. Highly-acclaimed experts, including Nick Miller, Wolfram Ziegler and Deborah Theodoros, have written the 16 chapters. What makes this book such a valuable resource is the fact the chapters are written from a perspective that includes the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health framework, which is then applied to the assessment of motor speech disorders. The information is presented in an accessible style and provides the reader with useful information, such as online resources and names/location of relevant tests andassessment tools. This book is also an excellent resource because it gives an up-to-date comprehensive summary for the assessment and evaluation of motor speech disorders considering well-known areas such as intelligibility, physiological assessment and prosody. It also includes recently established areas such as telerehabilitation and conversation analysis." Claire Bagness, Speech-Language Therapist, Northumberland, Speech & Language Therapy in Practice, (Winter 2011): "This is an up-to-date comprehensive overview of holistic assessment of motor speech disorders. Phonetic and physiological assessment are thoroughly detailed as well as evaluation of the impact of motor speech disorders on an individual through adoption of the ICF framework (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health). Conversation analysis, tele-health, imaging and neural modelling are also covered. Although some chapters are relevant to developmental motor speech disorders, the focus is primarily on acquired disorders. Some aspects of assessment are more applicable for research, however much is relevant for clinical assessment of this complex range of disorders. This text is accessible and would be use to newly qualified and experienced clinicans alike." Ellika Schalling, PhD, SLP, Karolinska Institutet Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden, International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders (2014): "The chapters are generally written in an easily accessible style and provide a wealth of updated information and references of interest both for clinicians and researchers in the field. There are many useful summaries as well as references to valuable sources of further information. Many of the test-materials and studies discussed in the book are of course based on English-speaking populations, but a lot of the information is general and useful for professionals also in other parts of the world. This is a well-written and informative book that provides a comprehensive overview of assessment in the area of motor speech disorders, including both areas with a more long-standing tradition and more recent topics such as e.g. telerehabilitation and functional neuroimaging. I warmly recommend this textbook to all readers with an interest in motor speech disorders."