SALE: Motor Speech Disorders

Join Sakinah and Lerato (SALE) in this introductory episode to Motor-Speech Disorders (MSDs). In this first instalment of a trio of talks, the student speech-language pathologists explore dysarthria and apraxia in the adult population through definitions, types, clinical signs, and symptoms of these conditions. Following this, techniques for accurate identification of dysarthria and apraxia through standardised tools and instruments are analysed. Additionally, this includes differential diagnoses to aid in the accurate diagnosis of MSDs and distinguish their characteristics from similar conditions managed by speech-language pathologists. Lastly, proposed implications for misdiagnosis of MSDs are discussed, leading into the subsequent topic for the second instalment of SALE podcasts: the assessment of motor-speech disorders and consequently, the consideration requirements for speech-language pathologists.