Welcome back to the last episode of the crash course about motor speech disorders. Today's episode speaks about treatment and management of apraxia, dysarthria and dysphagia. We discussed the specific approaches related to the different diagnoses. Today's episode also discussed the importance of using the ICF as a basis for management, the importance of a MDT approach as well as the roles of a speech therapist. We hope you enjoyed this podcast and learnt a lot.

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