Browsing by Subject "Treatment plans"

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    Cumulative Intervention Intensity in Speech-Language Pathology Treatment Plans
    (2015) Cowles, Angela
    Purpose: To examine the extent to which intervention intensity parameters are present in speech-language pathology treatment plans in educational and medical settings. Method: 120 treatment plans (46 educational and 74 medical) from northern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin were examined for intervention intensity parameters specified by Warren and colleagues (Warren, Fey & Yoder, 2007). Results: Educational records: 65% specified dose frequency and 28% specified total duration. Medical records: 69% specified dose frequency and 55% specified total duration. No treatment plans recorded all intervention intensity parameters. Conclusion: It is possible that (a) dosage parameters may not be well-known among practicing SLPs and/or (b) therapists may already document intervention intensity but not systematically within the treatment plans. If speech-language pathologists documented intervention intensity in one document, SLPs and researchers may have more resources to provide evidence-based practice for clients.
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    A Substitute for Dystrophin: Why Utrophin Fails
    (2017) Ostgaard, Cyrina
    Each year 1 in 3500 males in the United States are born with Muscular Dystrophy (MD). In serious cases this disease is marked by heavily atrophied musculature, mental impairment, cardiomyopathy, and a shortened lifespan (~20 years). Currently, there is no cure for this debilitating disease and treatment options remain abysmal. Knowing how utrophin fails to replace dystrophin has potential for introducing factors that could fix this failure. That is part of the future of where this project is headed in terms of drug design and possible implications that could be had for disease treatment. This is one of the first projects that looks into the thermodynamics and molecular dynamics of these proteins to find how they function as little is still known about the way in which dystrophin transduces force and what role utrophin plays.