Exam 2 Flashcards
- rate and rhythm control approach to treating AOS
- speech produced in time to a metronome
- usually about 1 syllable per beat
- rate initially slow, gradually increased
metronome pacing
- Due to damage to cerebellum
- Impairment affects:
- coordination
- decreased muscle tone
- Impairment results in slowness and inaccuracy of aspects of movement
Ataxic dysarthria
- articulatory and kinematic approach to treating AOS
- client consciously focuses on production in a word s/he can say
- clinician tries to generalize this correct production to other words
key word approach
vascular problems that could cause spastic dysarthria
- stroke- most likely brainstem, not unilateral cerebral
- vascular dementia
True or false apraxia of speech rarely occurs without an accompanying aphasia
True
Unilateral Upper Motor Neuron Dysarthria
Clinical characteristics (4)
- hemiplegia or hemiparesis
- early-weakness, hyporeflexia, hypotonia
- later- spasticity, hypertonia
- contralatral lower face weakness
- inflammatory demyelinating disease
- destruction of white matter in brain or spinal cord
- possible etiology of spastic dysarthria
leukoencephalitis
Unilateral Upper Motor Neuron Dysarthria
Etiologies (3)
- stroke- most common
- tumors
- trauma
- prolonged or continuous spasms
tonic spasm
Types of Neuromotor speech disorders (2)
- dysarthria
- apraxia of speech
Etiologies of Hyperkinetic dysarthria (5)
- toxic- metabolic conditions
- degenerative diseases
- infectious disease
- stroke
- tumors
errors in sequence and speed of parts of movement
decomposition of movement
How many types of dysarthria?
7
rhythmic tremor of body or head
titubation
Ways to evaluate speech (3)
- perceptually
- acoustically
- physiologically
neuromotor speech disorders management goals (2)
- restore lost function
- promote the use of residual function
- reduce the need for lost function
- rapid, stereotyped movements
- often irresistible urge to make the movements
tics
- most often due to impairment of basal ganglia indirect pathway
- often prominent effects on prosody
- different kinds of involuntary movements cause hyperkinetic dysarthrias
- orofacial dyskinesia
- tardive dyskinesia
- myoclonus
- tics
- chorea
- ballismus
- athetosis
- dystonia
- spasm
- tremor
Hyperkinetic dysarthrias
- rate and rhythm control approach to treating AOS
- model two syllable words, accenting the stressed syllable, client imitates
- gradually increase word length
stress patterning
- a combination of two or more types of dysarthria
- more common than single dysarthrias
mixed dysarthrias
Hypokinetic dysarthria impairment produces: (4)
- rigidity
- reduced force
- reduced range
- slow individual, but sometimes fast repetitive movements
- repetitive and brief spasms
clonic spasm
- biofeedback
- mirror under the nose
- nasal flow transucer (if available)
- resistance treatment during speech continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)
- produce words containing pressure sounds with nares pinched closed
- modification of speaking (over articulation)
- no evidence for NSOMEs
- no evidence for inhibition techniques
treating velopharyngeal dysfunction associated with dysarthria
distrubance in trajectory or inability to control range
dysmetria
- electrodes surgically implanted, most often in subthalamic nucleus
- may be unilateral or bilateral
- electrical impulses sent to electrodes via stiumulator implanted implanted under the skin
- stimulator connected to electrodes via wires
- electrical impulses disrupt tremors and other motor problems
- limb movement problems respond better to drugs and DBS than speech problems
- speech may worsen with drugs or DBS
Deep brain stimulation (DBS)
- most often due to impairment of basal ganglia indirect pathway
hyperkinetic dysarthrias
- Impairment affects
- muscle strength
- muscle tone
- speed, range, and accuracy
flaccid dysarthria
Formal perceptual assessments for speech (4)
- Frenchay Dysarthria Assessment
- Assessment of Intelligibility in Dysarthric Speech (AIDS)
- Speech Intelligibility Test (SIT)
- Apraxia Battery for Adults
Clinical characteristics of ataxic dysarthria (8)
- problems in standing and walking
- titubation
- nystagmus
- dysmetria
- dysdiadochokinesis
- decomposition of movement
- possible intention tremor
- cognitive disturbances