asses. of organic and neuro speech Dis. Flashcards
Cerebral palsy
- pre, peri, post natal.
- not progressive
Spastic Cerebral Palsy
- 50% of kids have this
- slow jerking movements with increased muscle tone
athetoid cerebral palsy
- 10% of kids
- slow writhing and involuntary movements
Ataxic cerebral palsy
- 5-10% of kids
- balance problems and normal reflex
- normal muscle tone
Rigid cerebral palsy
- 1% of kids
- simultaneous contraction of all muscle groups
mixed cerebral palsy
- 30% of kids
- might have several of these
Speech problems and their assessment
- Oral motor: we have to asses both speech and non speech
- feeding
- slow DDK rates, discoordination of tongue, slow w/ that
- resonance
prosody
(intonation) monotone mostly
respiration
- sometimes very breathy
- rapid breathing and wasted air and trailing off the end of sentences
phonation
-a weak and strained voice because of hyperadducted vocal cords (theyre stuck together)
articulation
- producing a speech sound
- weak pressure consonance and imprecise
Dysarthria
- neuromotor disorder affecting all systems (respiration, phonation, articulation, resonance, prosody)
- due to: CP, degenerative diseases., stroke
characteristics to look for in asssessment
- breathy respiration
- difficulty with appropriate syllable stress
- artic: imprecise, distorted consonants; weak pressure consonant (use MOOSE)
- resonance hypernasality
- phonation: monotone, monoloudness, often soft voice
festination
means small shuffling steps
Childhood apraxia of speech
- inconsistent errors
- flat prosody
- difficulty sequencing sounds and syllables
- moderately to severely unintelligible