Overview

Designed to work in conjunction with graduate textbooks in motor speech disorders, this collection showcases the state of the art in motor speech disorders. Leading names in the field review the history, current practice and future trends, neural models, acoustics and measurement, speech technology, and treatment approaches. Chapters are carefully constructed and include key points, summaries, references, and supplemental reading.

Audience

Primary Subject: Speech and Language Pathology / Neurogenics
Audience Level: Professional/Textbook - 90 Days

• CHAPTER 1:
  • The Shaping of a Field
    Gary Weismer
• CHAPTER 2:
  • Motor Speech Disorders: History, Current Practice, Future Trends and Goals
    Joseph R. Duffy
• CHAPTER 3:
  • Neural Perspectives on Motor Speech Disorders: Current Understanding
    Gary Weismer
• CHAPTER 4:
  • Speech Breathing in Motor Speech Disorders
    Gary Weismer
• CHAPTER 5:
  • Voice and Motor Speech Disorders: Technology, Data, Clinical Application
    Eugene H. Buder
• CHAPTER 6:
  • Segmental Articulation in Motor Speech Disorders
    Kris Tjaden
• CHAPTER 7:
  • The Role of Speech Perception in Motor Speech Disorders
    Julie M. Liss
• CHAPTER 8:
  • Dysphagia in Patients with Motor Speech Disorders
    John C. Rosenbek and Harrison N. Jones
• CHAPTER 9:
  • Interventions to Improve Intelligibility and Communicative Success for Speakers with Dysarthria
    Katherine C. Hustad and Gary Weismer
• INDEX

About The Editor

Gary Weismer, Ph.D.

Gary Weismer, Ph.D. is Oros-Bascom Professor of Communicative Disorders and an investigator at the Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin—Madison. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Pennsylvania State University and his doctorate from UW—Madison in 1975. Dr. Weismer’s current research papers concern normal speech production and various aspects of motor speech disorders. He has twice been Associate Editor for the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (previously the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research), and is currently Associate Editor for Motor Speech Disorders, Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica (FLP), and the incoming Editor-in-Chief of FLP. Dr. Weismer is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and his research has been funded by NIH for the past 25 years.

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