Assessment of non-progressive dysarthria: practice and attitude of speech and language therapists in Lebanon

BMC Neurology

Table 2 The reported frequency of use of informal descriptive assessment for non-progressive dysarthria (n = 50)

Descriptive assessment	ICF^a domain	Always		Most of the time		Some of the time		Never
		n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Oral facial examination	I	30	60	17	34	3	6	0	0
Informal articulation rating	I	28	56	17	34	5	10	0	0
Informal speech rating	AL	26	52	19	38	5	10	0	0
Informal intelligibility testing	AL	29	58	14	28	7	14	0	0
Conversation/interaction rating	AL	27	54	16	32	6	12	1	2
Observation of connected speech in reading	AL	20	40	17	34	13	26	0	0
Informal rating scales of speech function (e.g. breath support and phonation)	I	18	36	21	42	7	14	4	8
Client’s/significant others’ ratings of social participation	PR	13	26	21	42	11	22	5	10
Informal ratings of conversational partner interaction skills	AL	14	28	14	28	19	38	3	6

^a International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health domains: I Impairment; AL Activity Limitations; PR Participation Restrictions

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