ACQ Vol 12 no 1 2010

Motor speech disorders

From the editors Marleen Westerveld and Nicole Watts Pappas

Contents

1 From the Editors 2 From the President: Moving on 3 Editorial: Advances in motor learning: Emerging evidence and new ideas – Patricia McCabe 5 Peer review: (October 2008 – December 2009) 6 Management of acquired motor speech disorder in children: A practical reflection on the evidence – Angela. T. Morgan 10 A different view of talking: How children with speech impairment picture their speech – Jane McCormack, Sharynne McLeod, Linda Harrison, Lindy McAllister, and Erin Holliday 16 Consideration of the listener in the assessment and treatment of dysarthria – Megan J. McAuliffe, Stephanie A. Borrie, P. Virginia Good, and Louise E. Hughes 20 Clinical outcomes of simple behavioural treatments for adults who stutter: Three case studies – Stacey Sheedy, Mary Erian, Wendy Lloyd, and Margaret Webber 25 Weekly prolonged speech treatment for adults – Wendy Lloyd, Margaret Webber, Mary Erian, and Stacey Sheedy 29 Voice therapy prepractice and the principles of motor learning – Anna McIlwaine, Catherine Madill, and Patricia McCabe 33 Assessing motor speech disorders using transcranial magnetic stimulation – Justine V. Goozée, Bruce E. Murdoch, David Lloyd, and Stephan Riek 37 Functional reading therapy for individuals with acquired reading difficulties: A preliminary investigation exploring its effectiveness – Naomi Cocks, Niina Matthews, Lisa Barnett, Emma Phillips, Ruth Middleton, Joan Gregoire-Clarke, and Madeline Cruice 42 What’s the evidence? – Jenny Harasty 44 Motor speech disorders research at UQ – Deborah Theodoros 45 Webwords 36: Motor speech disorders – Caroline Bowen 47 Speech therapy services in Viet Nam: Past, present and future – Lindy McAllister, Nguy ˜ên Thi. Ngo. c Dung, Janella Christie, Sue Woodward, Hà Thi. Kim Y ´ên, Đinh Thi. Bích Loan, Bùi Thi. Duyên, Alison Winkworth, Bernice Mathisen, Marie Atherton, Jacqui Frowen, Felicity Megee, and Tri. nh Thi. Kim Ngo. c 52 Max’s House Top 10 resources for paediatric motor speech intervention – Kieran Flanagan and Emma Laube

Marleen Westerveld (left) and Nicole Watts Pappas

Welcome to another edition of ACQuiring Knowledge in Speech, Language and Hearing . The topic motor speech disorders has clearly attracted much interest. We have been impressed with the quantity and quality of the submissions we received in response to our call for papers related to this area of practice. All articles attempt to present our readers with an overview of current research and its applications for clinical speech language pathology practice. McCabe introduces this issue of ACQ with an excellent overview of the advances in motor learning the profession has seen in the last couple of decades. This is followed by a number of peer-reviewed papers covering a range of related topics. Morgan provides a summary of current evidence in relation to assessment and treatment of dysarthria associated with childhood acquired brain injury, whereas McCormack and colleagues present a novel way of analysing children’s own view of their speech impairment. In regards to the adult field, McCauliffe et al. examine the role of the listener in interactions with people with dysarthria and urge for consideration of familiar listeners’ rating of intelligibility as an additional outcome measure of speech pathology intervention. Sheedy and colleagues present several papers that address clinical treatment of stuttering in adults, while McIlwain, Madill, and McCabe apply principles of motor learning to voice therapy. The final article on motor speech disorders is by Goozée et al., which provides an excellent introduction to transcranial magnetic stimulation applications to the study and treatment of motor speech disorders. This edition closes off with our regular columns, including a research update by Theodoros, a fascinating article on speech-language therapy in Viet Nam, and two very informative submissions from the Research Evidence Based Practice and Ethics Board committees. Finally, we would like to thank all those professionals who have assisted us with the peer- review process during our first 14 months of editorship. We look forward to continuing these working relationships and invite you to contact us with suggestions for future topics of interest.

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