Lip Reading - dysarthria therapy

I'm currently working with a patient who has lower motor neuron right facial weakness and a flaccid dysarthria. I've been developing my array of dysarthria therapies and together we came up with an idea......

Lip Reading

• Method: The patient and therapist have a list of the same words. The patient picks out a word (the SLT doesn't see it) and lip reads the word. The SLT guesses what the word is. This could be stepped up to simple sentences.

• Aims: To work on - over-articulation and facial weakness (with facilitative tapping) while giving novel feedback.