Exam 2 Flashcards
What 4 things do you consider for speech?
- speed
- coordination
- trajectory
- dynamic
Overlearned, highly fluent muscle patterns associated with speech production
Engrams
Articulated assume positions that enable fast transitions between sounds
Co- articulation
Muscle movement, contractile force, and jaw movement are minimal for speech given overall capacities
Minimal effort
Multiple feedback channels to repair errors and refine signal
Auditory
Somatosensory feedback
Non speech assessment for lips
Smile, picker, move lips, lip compression
Non speech assessment for tongue
Protrude, elevate, depress, lateralize
Non speech assessment for jaw
Open jaw, clench jaw, lateralize jaw
Non speech assessment for Velum
Velar elevation on “ah”
Non speech assessment for Vocal folds
Cough, sustained “ah”, pitch glides/ range, vocal intensity range
Non speech assessment for respiration
Sustained “ah” duration, breath phrase length (15/20 sec is normal)
Speech assessment for diodochokinetics
- Repeated syllables (alternate motion rate)
- Alternate syllables (sequential motion rate)
- Subjective (regular vs variable rate)
Speech sample
Standardized passages or conversational speech
Dysarthria
Speech sound disorder resulting from neuromuscular weakness
Conditions of dysarthria
- neuromuscular disease
- stroke
- cranial nerve damage