Ataxic Dysarthria Intervention

Question 1

What is the aim for ataxic dysarthria intervention?

Answer 1

Intervention focuses on speech production e.g. timing etc. rather than dysfunction of specific components of the speech mechanism.
Directed to overall control and integration od speech movements rather than specific impairment.

Question 2

Prosody Intervention- what is the pattern of focus?

Answer 2

1. Focus on decreasing rate.

2. develop stress and intonation patterns to effect greater speech naturalness.

Question 3

Rate altering techniques

Answer 3

rate control using an alphabet board.
Pacing board.
Metronome.
Biofeedback using oscillographic display.
Establish optimum speaking rate while maximizing intelligibility.
Encourage self-monitoring.

Question 4

Stress and intonation techniques

Answer 4

lengthen syllable for stressed syllable.
Contrastive stress and intonation drills.
Utterances grouped into meaningful units.

Question 5

What is targeted in terms of articulation?

Answer 5

Imprecise consonant production

Distortion of vowels

Question 6

Articulation techniques.

Answer 6

Intensive phoneme drills with emphasis on rhythm and exaggeration of movements- start simple e.g. CVC…
Biofeedback may also be useful.

Question 7

Respiration

Answer 7

Normally okay- may work on coordination with breathing and voicing.

Question 8

Phonation- aim and techniques

Answer 8

Aim- stabilising pitch
Pitch drills focus on simple consonant vowel syllables

Aim- stabilising pitch
Do the same CV syllabless.

Use visipitch :)

Question 9

Resonance- what’s the problem?

Answer 9

Its in relation to articulation gestures rather than soft palate muscle weakness.

Question 10

Resonance therapy activity

Answer 10

articulation drills- alternate between nasal to non-nasal consonants.
Contrastive drills to differentiate between nasal and non-nasal sounds.