Exam 1 Flashcards
Sound
Waves transmitted through a medium
Communication
Exchange of information with a sender and a receiver
Speech
Acoustic signal, coding, or representation of language
Language
Abstract, agreed upon set of symbols that represent meaning
Rule based
Motor Speech Processes: Message Planning
What do I want to say?
Motor Speech Processes: Message Coding
How do I say it (what words do I use)
Motor Speech Processes: Motor Planning
Choose the movement strategies, taking into account the intended goal
Motor Speech Processes: Motor Programming
What muscles, how much, when, how long
Motor Speech Processes: Execution
Activation of motor neurons, activation of respiratory, resonatory, phonatory, and articulatory systems
Motor Speech Disorders
Acquired neuromotor speech disorders
Neurogenic speech disorders
Due to damage, disease, developmental differences of neural centers and pathways of speech production in the CNS and/or PNS
Disorders of motor programming/planning
Apraxia or dyspraxia
No motor weakness
Disorders of neuromotor execution
Dysarthria
Must be differentiated from other disorders like psychogenic disorders, normal aging, structural differences
Result of disturbance in execution of speech movements
Language generally uneffected
Related to movement
Limb apraxia
Cant perform actions with body on demand
Orofacial apraxia
Cant complete gestures with articulators such as sticking out tongue on demand
Flaccid Dysarthria
Lower Motor Neuron
Spastic Dysarthria
Bilateral upper motor neuron
Ataxic Dysarthria
Cerebellum/cerebellar control circuits
Hypokinetic Dysarthria
Basal Ganglia (substantia nigra) PD
Hyperkinetic Dysarthria
Basal Ganglia
Methods of Studying Motor Speech Disorders
Perceptual (gold standard)
Instrumental
Acoustic
Visual imaging
Dimensions of Motor Speech Disorder: Age of Onset
congenital or acquired acute/subacute/chronic) Acute: Symptoms within minutes Subacute: Happens over days Chronic: Happens over months
Dimensions of Motor Speech Disorder: Cause or Etiology
Genetic, infection, unknown, etc
Dimensions of Motor Speech Disorder: Natural course
Transient: symptoms will resolve
Stationary: remain unchanged after reaching maximum severity
Improving: symptoms reduced in severity but have not resolved
Progressive/degenerative: symptoms continue to get worse over time
Exacerbating/remitting: symptoms may improve or resolve then become exacerbated and possibly worsen, like MS
Dimensions of Motor Speech Disorders
Age of onset Cause/etiology Natural course Site of lesion Neurologic diagnosis Pathopysiology Subsystems involved Severity Perceptual characteristics
Dimensions of Motor Speech Disorder: Pathopysiology
Changes caused by the disorder such as weakness or spacticity
Etiology
Vascular Inflammatory Traumatic/Toxic Anoxic or autoimmune Metabolic Idiopathic (unknown cause) or latrogenic (treatment induced) Neoplastic (tumor) Altered brain morphology Degenerative
Treatment Approaches
AAC
Normalizing pysiological support (reduce nasality, normalize loudness)
Teach Compensatory behaviors
Medical Approaches (surgery, drug, prosthetic)
Eliminate maladaptive behaviors
Interaction enhancement strategies (communication strategies)
Maintain communication skills (encourage continued communication and social interaction)
Strategies to alter negative attitudes of others (educate others)
ICF: Body Function
Physiological functions of body systems
ICF: Body Structures
Anatomical parts of the body, limbs, organs, and their components
ICF: Impairments
Problems in body function or structure such as significant deviation or loss
ICF: Activity
Execution of a task or action by an individual
ICF: Participation
Involvement in life situation
ICF: Activity Limitation
Difficulties an individual may have in executing activities
ICF: Participation Restrictions
Problems an individual may experience in involvement in life situations
ICF: Environmental Factors
Make up physical, social, attitudinal, and environment in which people live and conduct their lives
Source-Filter Theory
Source is what generates sound (VF, stops and fricatives are also a source at the point of closure)
Filter modifies the sound (rest of the vocal tract, can lengthen vocal tract by rounding lips)
Ten Functional Components of Speech
Abdominal muscles Diaphragm Rib Cage Larynx Tongue/pharynx Posterior Tongue Velopharynx Jaw Lips
Four Major Subsystems of Speech
Respiratory (most common issue in motor speech disorders)
Phonatory
Velopharyngeal
Articulatory
Respiratory/Pulmonary System
Breathing
Speech
Three functional components: diaphragm, rib cage, abdominal muscles, needed for subglottal pressure
Major muscles of inspiration
Diaphragm and external intercostals
Tidal volume
Amount inhaled and exhaled during a normal breath cycle