Adult Treatment and Management

Question 1

Dysarthria treatment aims

Answer 1

• Targets physiologic support for speech

- assumes intact motor plans/programs for speech

Question 2

Apraxia of Speech treatment aims

Answer 2

• assumes intact physiologic support for speech

- targets motor plans/programs for speech

Question 3

Subsystem-focused dysarthria treatment

Answer 3

• behavioral treatment

- restorative

Question 4

Global behavioral strategies for dysarthria

Answer 4

• restorative
• thought to globally affect more than just one sumstyem
• often have one goal

Question 5

examples of global behavioral strategies for dysarthria

Answer 5

• rate modifications
• clear speech
• loud speech (i.e. LSVT)

Question 6

Examples of subsystem focused treatment for dysarthria

Answer 6

-increasing resporatory suppor, RVT for phonation, CPAP for resonance, speech breathing groups for prosody

Question 7

Key diagnostic characteristics for AOS

Answer 7

• prosodic disturbances
• articulation disorders
• articulatory groping
• errors increase with length and complexity

Question 8

prosodic disturbance examples

Answer 8

• syllable segregation
• slow rate
• lexical stress errors
• lengthened instersegment duration

Question 9

Articulatory-kinematic approaches for AOS rationale

Answer 9

AOS involves disordered articulation and sequencing; need to refine spatial and temporal aspects of speech

Question 10

Rate/rhythm control approaches for AOS rationale

Answer 10

AOS involves disrupted timing of speech production; need to re-establish temporal patterning

Question 11

Examples of articulatory kinematic aproaches

Answer 11

• sound production treatment
• Script training
• structured oral reading

Question 12

Examples of Rate/rhythm control approaches

Answer 12

• Rhythmic Pacing
• Audio/video entrainment
• Contrastive stress
• melodic intonation therapy (MIT)