This podcast discusses differential diagnosis of motor speech disorders and talks through the usefulness of the linked tool for the assessment and differential diagnosis of dysarthria and apraxia of speech. Additionally, the importance of certain treatment principles are discussed. These principles include the importance of considering how a patient is going to generalise the skills they have learnt in therapy to other communication contexts, as well as the importance of the inclusion of family in therapy sessions so that they can help the patient practice and implement different communication strategies they are given at therapy to their home environment. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), which is a framework that is used to consider the domains of body functioning, body structure, activities and parti ...