What is it about?
Cough disorders are managed by medical, procedural, and behavioral approaches. Speech-language pathologists are responsible for providing nonpharmacological treatments. Speech therapy for cough disorders centers on the malleability of cough and reshaping higher level cognitive pathways of cough. This review describes how speech therapy offers a holistic and complementary approach to other treatments for cough problems.
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Why is it important?
Recognition is growing across disciplines about the significant, unmet needs in cough research and clinical practice. This work synthesizes key findings from recent basic science and clinical studies that demonstrate the favorable role of nonpharmacological treatments for pathological cough.
Perspectives
I learned a lot about the varying and often differing perspectives about managing chronic cough while writing this paper. I hope that others, particularly clinicians and researchers, are able to utilize the information in their future decision making. It is my goal that the more than 200 cited references are helpful for searching for additional relevant information about cough disorders.
Carolyn Novaleski
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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This page is a summary of: Cough: An Introductory Guide for Speech-Language Pathologists, Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, December 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2023_persp-23-00203.
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