The Source® for Dysarthria, 2nd Ed., by Nancy B. Swigert, explains the intricacies of dysarthria evaluation and gives guidelines for a differential diagnosis. Organized using listening skills to help make decisions about diagnosis and treatment (in contrast to using instrumental assessment). This information helps to understand the interrelationships among respiration, phonation, resonance, articulation, and prosody; determine possible causes for the observed symptoms; and incorporate long-term goals of intelligibility, comprehensibility, efficiency, and naturalness. Author explains the intricacies of dysarthria evaluation and gives guidelines for a differential diagnosis. Description of each type of dysarthria includes possible medical diagnoses, associated neurological symptoms and reflexes, typical patient complaints, and tasks to help distinguish the particular type of dysarthria.168 pages, softcover with an additional 120 printable pages (evaluation tools and therapy activities)