Laryngeal Dystonia Part 2: Medical and Behavioral Treatment
Presented by Maurice E. Goodwin and Christie DeLuca
Financial: Maurice E. Goodwin is an employee of Houston Methodist Hospital. He also is owner of Goodwin Voice & Speech, founder of VoiceProEd, and adjunct professor for Lamar University. He receives compensation from MedBridge for this course.
Nonfinancial: Christie DeLuca has no competing nonfinancial interests or relationships with regard to the content presented in this course.
Nonfinancial: Maurice E. Goodwin has no competing nonfinancial interests or relationships with regard to the content presented in this course.
There exists a notable gap in integrating medical and behavioral treatment strategies specifically tailored for laryngeal dystonia. This course addresses this critical need by equipping speech pathologists with the latest interdisciplinary approaches and evidence-based practices to comprehensively manage these complex conditions. The primary goal of this course is to empower speech pathologists with advanced knowledge and practical skills in medical and behavioral interventions tailored specifically to managing laryngeal dystonia. It aims to foster a deep understanding of the interdisciplinary approaches necessary for treatment planning and implementation, enhancing the quality of care and outcomes for individuals with these conditions.
Learning Objectives
- Determine how to formulate and communicate appropriate treatment plans and decisions
- Define medical treatment options and expectations for laryngeal dystonia
- Examine behavioral treatment options and clinical decision-making frameworks for optimizing behavioral treatment outcomes
- Determine key collaborators and roles for each member of the treatment team
- Analyze important considerations in difficult decision-making for complex patients
Meet your instructors
Maurice E. Goodwin
Maurice E. Goodwin is a licensed and practicing speech-language pathologist, voice teacher, and performer living in Houston, Texas. Professionally, he specializes in the evaluation and treatment of the singing voice and voice disorders at the Texas Voice Center. He currently serves as adjunct faculty at Lamar University. He…
Christie DeLuca
Christie DeLuca is a clinical voice specialist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, an adjunct professor of voice disorders at CSU San Marcos, an adjunct faculty member of the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences, and a mentor for early-career voice SLPs. She did her clinical fellowship at the Mount Sinai Grabscheid…
Chapters & learning objectives
1. Goal Setting and Clinical Decision-Making
It’s important to understand how to plan effective intervention in the context of chronic voice disorders, as treatment is often complex and multifactorial. This chapter will outline how to formulate appropriate treatment plans and decisions, including short- and long-term goal creation for chronic voice disorders, using objective and subjective data to support initial treatment decision-making.
2. Medical Intervention
It is important for the SLPs to understand medical interventions in detail to optimize treatment outcomes for patients with laryngeal dystonia. This chapter will identify options and expectations for medical treatment and the roles of all team members in treatment.
3. Behavioral Therapy
Voice therapy can be a helpful therapeutic technique in intervention for laryngeal dystonia. This chapter will identify which beneficial voice therapy techniques to use, with physiological rationales and goals for this unique population.
4. Collaborative Intervention
Intervention for neurological voice disorders is often multidisciplinary. This chapter will outline the main team members of the collaborative treatment team and what each person’s role in intervention is within a collaborative care mode.
5. Treatment Challenges and Difficult Decision-Making
Effective intervention and decision-making in the chronic neurological voice disorder population can be confounded when there are multiple diagnoses/disorders at play and due to the complex nature of neurological disorders, with drawbacks to each available treatment option. This chapter will outline prioritizing multiple treatment strategies and disorder-specific limitations of current treatment options with an overview of risks, side effects, and success limits for medical intervention and behavioral treatment options.
More courses in this series
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Laryngeal Dystonia Part 3: Clinical and Psychosocial Considerations
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Laryngeal Dystonia Part 1: Clinical Assessment
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Laryngeal Dystonia Part 2: Medical and Behavioral Treatment
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Clinical Assessment of Vocal Fold Paralysis and Paresis
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