8.1 - Apraxia of Speech Flashcards
What is Praxis?
The volitional performance of skilled movements
What does Volitional mean?
Purposeful (not automatic)
What does Skilled mean?
Previously learned or practiced
What is Ideomotor Apraxia?
2
Impaired performance of skilled motor acts despite intact sensory, motor,
and language function.
Typically demonstrated when a patient is asked verbally to perform a gesture with a limb.
What is Ideational Apraxia?
3
Difficulty carrying out a sequence of actions in performance of a complex, multistep task (eg, making a cup of tea).
Seen in patients with extensive left hemisphere damage, dementia, or delirium.
Deficits due to combination of executive, language, and memory limitations or generally limited cognitive resources.
What is Conceptual Apraxia?
Impairment of object or action knowledge.
What is the most common Apraxia: Ideomotor, Ideational, or Conceptual?
Ideomotor
How is the Frontal Lobe involved in intentional movement?
Will to act
How is the Supplementary Motor Area involved in intentional movement?
Initiates + guides volitional movement
How is the Premotor Cortex involved in intentional movement?
3
Learns motor movement
Selects motor movement
Adjusts motor programs
How is the Primary Motor Cortex involved in intentional movement?
Executes movement
How is the Parietal Lobe involved in intentional movement?
Spatial-temporal movements
What is the Motor Speech Programmer’s job?
2
Establishes plans and programs for spoken messages
Organizes motor commands that result in production of
temporally ordered sounds, syllables, words, etc
What will damage to perisylvian language zone result in?
Co-occurrence
of language related deficits and AOS
What are the 6 Key Components of the Motor Speech Programmer?
Broca’sArea
Supplementary Motor Area
Pre-Motor Area
Parietal Lobe
Supramarginal Gyrus
Insula Cortex
What are 7 cortical areas influence the Motor Speech Programmer?
Sensory feedback
Basal ganglia
Cerebellar control circuits
Reticular formation
Thalamus
Limbic system
Right hemisphere
Is Apraxia typically co-occur with Wernicke’s Aphasia?
No. Apraxia comes from anterior damage
Apraxia of Speech (AOS) is a neurologic speech disorder that reflects an impaired capacity to _____________ sensorimotor commands necessary for directing movements that result in phonetically and prosodically normal speech. It can occur in the absence of ______________ associated with the dysarthrias and in
the absence of disturbance in any component of _______________.
Plan or program
Physiologic disturbances
Language
What is Apraxia of Speech (AOS)?
3
Articulatory - prosodic motor speech disorder
May present in pure form (spared language)
Usually co-exists with nonfluent (Broca’s type) aphasia
Is Apraxia of Speech (AOS) Aphasia?
No
Is Apraxia of Speech (AOS) Dysarthria?
No
Is Apraxia of Speech (AOS) Oral Apraxia?
No
What is Motor Planning?
3
Formulation of strategy of action by defining motor goals
Motor goals are found in spatial (place and manner of artic) and temporal (timing) specifications of movements
Motor goals for each speech sound are identified + arranged to occur concurrently and sequentially
What is Motor Programming?
2
Selection and sequencing of motor programs for the
movements of the individual muscles of articulation
Spatial-temporal and force dimensions are specified (tone, movement, velocity, force, range & stiffness of joints)
What is Motor Execution?
2
Plans and programs are transformed into actual
movements
Realization of speech at articulatory level
What are the highlights of how Dabul (2000) saw Apraxia of Speech (AOS)?
(4)
Visible + audible searching behaviors
Highly inconsistent errors
Fewer errors in automatic speech than volitional
Marked difficulty initiating speech
What are the highlights of how Wertz et al (1984) saw Apraxia of Speech (AOS)?
(4)
Effortful trial, groping articulatory
movements
Dysprosody
Articulatory inconsistency on repeated productions of the same utterance
Obvious difficulty initiating utterances
What are the 4 KEY Characteristics of Apraxia of Speech (AOS)?
(4)
SOUND SUBSTITUTIONS predominate, including additive substitutions
INITIATION DIFFICULTY (stops + restarts), sound, syllable and whole-word repetition
VARIABILITY of error pattern on repeated trials of the same word
ISLANDS OF ERROR-FREE PRODUCTION