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Real-World Dysarthria Treatment: A Shift in Focus

August 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource helps you shift dysarthria therapy beyond drills by focusing on real-world communication, self-advocacy, and life participation. It includes therapy ideas, goal-writing guidance, and a patient handout that fosters supportive communication with partners like family, friends, and community members.
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Ataxic Dysarthria: Understanding and Communicating with Confidence

August 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This one-page handout helps patients understand ataxic dysarthria in clear, supportive language, including causes, communication strategies, and what to expect over time. It also offers practical tips for navigating real-world challenges (like being misunderstood as intoxicated) and includes guidance on how an SLP can help.
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Facial Nerves and Muscles

October 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.
This handout provides a general explanation for patients and family members to understand and visualize the nerves and muscles involved in facial sensations and movements.
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Speech Therapy Interventions for Acquired Apraxia of Speech: An Updated Systematic Review (2023)

September 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.
AOS often occurs from a stroke but can also be caused by a tumor, brain injury, or degenerative disease. The impairments AOS causes can result in difficulties with planning and programming sensorimotor commands necessary for speech production. This systematic review aims to update the work done by Ballard et al. (2015) to evaluate the current […]
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Management of Functional Communication, Swallowing, Cough and Related Disorders: Consensus Recommendations for Speech and Language Therapy (2021)

September 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.
FNDs can involve difficulties with communication, swallowing, cough, and upper airway systems. This review article included 18 SLPs worldwide with clinical experience with patients with FNDs. They had two neuropsychiatric and one neurology professional join them in providing these evaluation and treatment guideline recommendations.  FNDs generally have observed positive clinical features during functional communication, swallowing, […]
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Incentive Spirometer

June 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource provides basic education about incentive spirometry, including who should use an incentive spirometer, its benefits of use, how to use it, and normative values.
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