Edythe A. Strand

Dr. Edythe Strand is an emeritus speech pathologist at the Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, and an emeritus professor at the Mayo College of Medicine. Dr. Strand’s research has focused on developmental, acquired, and progressive apraxia of speech, and issues related to intelligibility and comprehensibility in degenerative dysarthria. She is an experienced clinician who has worked in the public school, private practice, and hospital and clinic settings. Her primary clinical and research interests include assessment and treatment of children and adults with neurologic speech and language disorders.

Dr. Strand’s publications include many articles and book chapters related to motor speech disorders. She frequently gives lectures on the assessment and treatment of apraxia of speech in children and adults, management of dysarthria in degenerative neurologic disease, and neuroanatomy. She is known for developing a dynamic assessment tool: Dynamic Evaluation of Motor Speech Skills in Children (DEMSS). She has also developed a treatment program for children with severe childhood apraxia of speech: Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing (DTTC), for which research has demonstrated treatment efficacy. She is the coauthor of the books Management of Speech and Swallowing in Degenerative Disease and Clinical Management of Motor Speech Disorders in Children and Adults and is coeditor of the book Clinical Management of Motor Speech Disorders in Children.

Dr. Strand is an ASHA fellow and has been awarded Honors of the Association of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Honors of the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences, and the Frank R. Kleffner Lifetime Clinical Career Award.