Apraxia of Speech

Question 1

Inability to execute skilled, learned motor acts, despite preservation of motor and sensory systems, comprehension, cooperation and coordination

Answer 1

Apraxia

Question 2

What are the 2 different kinds of apraxia?

Answer 2

ideational and ideomotor

Question 3

a disturbance in the conception of an object or gesture

Answer 3

ideational

Question 4

Ideational apraxia occurs w/ damage to _________.

Answer 4

left parietal lobe; uncommon

Question 5

a disturbance in performance of movements needed to use an object, make a gesture, sequence movements

Answer 5

ideomotor apraxia

Question 6

ideomotor apraxia is a deficit in the ability to ….

Answer 6

carry out the motor plan

Question 7

ideomotor apraxia typically affects ______ movements.

Answer 7

voluntary

Question 8

ideomotor apraxia: can _____ conduct action, but when asked to perform action, they have difficulty doing so.

Answer 8

spontaneously

Question 9

What are the 3 types of ideomotor apraxia?

Answer 9

limb apraxia
nonverbal oral apraxia
apraxia of speech

Question 10

inability to sequence the limbs during a voluntary action; spatially incorrect movements and abnormal or slow and deliberate

Answer 10

limb apraxia

Question 11

orofacial/facial/lingual apraxia; disturbance in sequencing of oral movements unrelated to speech production

Answer 11

non verbal oral apraxia

Question 12

inability to select and sequence the motor commands needed to correctly position the articulators during voluntary productuon of phonemes

Answer 12

apraxia of speech

Question 13

T or F? pure apraxia of speech is common.

Answer 13

False; it is rare

Question 14

Apraxia of speech is not caused by?

Answer 14

• muscle weakness
• abnormal muscle tone
• reduced range of movement
• decreased muscle steadiness

Question 15

AOS is an 1. _________ impairment associated w/ difficulties positioning and sequencing movements of muscles for speech.

Answer 15

artic impairment

Question 16

What is the difference between an artic disorder and a phono disorder?

Answer 16

artic= issue w/ motor abilities to perform a particular sound; more simple

phono= patterned issue w/ producing sounds/whole group affected; more complex

Question 17

AOS is a 2. _______ disorder resulting from sensorimotor impairment.

Answer 17

phono disorder

Question 18

green glass –> gleen glass

Answer 18

phonemic anticipatory error

Question 19

green glass –> green grass

Answer 19

phonemic perserverative error

Question 20

africa –> arifca

Answer 20

phonemic transpositiion error

Question 21

pen –> ben

tan –> dan

Answer 21

phoneme substitutions

Question 22

AOS is a ________ motoric disorder.

Answer 22

phonetic

Question 23

AOS is associated w/ difficult doing what in relation to motor plans?

Answer 23

selecting and organizing for the volitional production of speech

Question 24

Possible and commonly believed theory of cause of AOS

Answer 24

disruption in motor speech programmer (MSP)

Question 25

What hemisphere of the brain does MSP rely heavily on?

Answer 25

left hemisphere (Broca’s area)

Question 26

causes of AOS

Answer 26

• stroke
• degenerative disease-
• trauma
• tumors

Question 27

AOS is primarily a disorder of ______ and ______.

Answer 27

artic and prosody

Question 28

3 common speech characteristics of AOS

Answer 28

• trial and error
• groping w/ attempts
• self correct

Question 29

most common artic errors of AOS

Answer 29

• errors repeating words in increasing length

- inconsistent errors for multisyllabic words

Question 30

T or F? Prosody is frequently abnormal in AOS.

Answer 30

True

Question 31

Individuals w/ AOS have difficulty iitating and producing clusters. T or F?

Answer 31

True

Question 32

Is imitation or automatic speech better in individuals with AOS?

Answer 32

automatic speech

Question 33

Prosody in AOS is ____.

Answer 33

slow