Assessment Flashcards
Purpose of an MSD Assessment
- Description
- Diagnostic Possibilities
- Diagnosis
- Localization and disease diagnosis
- Severity
6 Features of neuromuscular activity that influence speech production
- Strength
- Speed
- Range
- Steadiness
- Tone
- Accuracy
4 components of motor speech examination
- Speech structures and function
- Perceptual speech characteristics
- Intelligibility, comprehensibility, and efficiency
- functional communication, communication effectiveness, and psychosocial impact
Method to assess: Speech structures and function
OME
Method to assess: perceptual speech characteristics
DAB speech characteristics, formal assessments and speech tasks
Speech tasks
- vowel prolongation
- AMRs or DDKs
- SMRs
- Contextual speech
- Stress testing
- Motor planning and/or programming processes
Method to assess: intelligibility, comprehensibility, and efficiency
Intelligibility:
- Sentence Intelligibility test (SIT)
- Frenchay Dysarthria Assessment (FDA-2)
- A Word Intelligibility Test
- Munich Intelligibility Profile (MVP)
Method to assess: functional communication, communication effectiveness, and psychosocial impact
Questionnaires such as:
- Communication Effectiveness Survey
- Dysarthria Impact Profile