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What’s the Colorado Motor Speech Framework and How Do I Use It?

Presented by Sarah Baar and Allison Hilger

What’s the Colorado Motor Speech Framework and How Do I Use It?

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Dr. Allison Hilger, PhD, CCC-SLP, joins host Sarah Baar to explore the Colorado Motor Speech Framework—a free, easy-to-use tool for assessing motor speech disorders. Together, they discuss how it supports clinical decision-making and simplifies dysarthria diagnosis. Tune in for practical tips you can bring to your next evaluation.

Learning Objectives
  • Analyze the evidence around motor speech/dysarthria assessment
  • Apply evidence-based, practical strategies to actionably address diagnosing motor speech disorders and dysarthria subtyping, as well as logging perceptual observations of the patient’s speech
  • Solve patient case scenarios involving unclear motor speech diagnoses, such as mixed dysarthria subtypes
This is an audio-only course. Additional materials are available for download within the course. To receive continuing education credit, complete the course and the accompanying quiz.

Meet your instructors

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Sarah Baar

Sarah is a speech-language pathologist in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She has had the opportunity to work in many settings across the continuum, including acute care, acute rehab, home and community, and outpatient therapy, and has been involved in various leadership projects. In 2016, she started the Honeycomb Speech Therapy…

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Allison Hilger

Dr. Allison Hilger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. She joined the university in 2020 after earning her Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Northwestern University and gaining clinical experience as a speech-language…

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What’s the Colorado Motor Speech Framework and How Do I Use It?

1. What’s the Colorado Motor Speech Framework and How Do I Use It?

Dr. Allison Hilger, PhD, CCC-SLP, joins host Sarah Baar to explore the Colorado Motor Speech Framework—a free, easy-to-use tool for assessing motor speech disorders.

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