Final Flashcards
Motor speech disorders (MSD) aka neurogenic speech disorders
Group of speech difficulties caused by damage to the neurological system (stoke, TBI, diseases etc) that affects planning, programming, control or execution of speech movements
Cerebral palsy (CP)
Neurological disorders that affect movement, muscle tone and posture. Caused by damage to the developing brain usually before, during birth or in early infancy
Features that make cerebral palsy different from other causes of neurogenic speech disorders
It’s a developmental disorder, NOT a disease; non progressive, non infectious, motor patterns are more predictable than those in acquired neurogenic disorders
Spastic cerebral palsy
Most common (approx. 60% of CP cases) , damage to the motor cortex of the brain, hypertonia (increased muscle tone), rigidity, infantile reflex patterns (ex. Rooting)
Athetoid cerebral palsy
Approx. 30% of CP cases, injury to the basal ganglia, slow involuntary flailing movements
Ataxic Cerebral palsy
Approx. 30% of CP cases, injury to cerebellum, uncoordinated movement, disturbed balance, seems clumsy and awkward
Most common causes of cerebral palsy
Anoxia and hemorrhage
Management team for cerebral palsy
Pediatrician, physical therapist, SLP, ENT, OT, special education teacher, audiologist, social worker, clinical psychologist, ophthalmologist etc.
6 types of dysarthria
Flaccid, spastic, ataxic, hypokinetic, hyperkinetic, mixed
Dysarthria
Speech impairments where a person has trouble speaking clearly because the muscles used for talking are weak and/ or hard to control. May affect speed, range, direction, strength, timing of motor movements
Etiology of dysarthria
Damage to the different parts of the central and peripheral nervous system
Flaccid dysarthria characteristics
Hypotonia (low muscle tone, weak, soft, flabby tone), diminished reflexes, weakness or paralysis of the affected muscle
Spastic dysarthria characteristics
Hypertonia (increased muscle tone), hyperactive reflexes, stiff and rigid muscles, weakness of motion of tongue, lips or jaw
Ataxic dysarthria characteristics
Coordination problems combined with hypotonia, errors in accuracy, timing,and direction of movements, damage to cerebellum
Hypokinetic dysarthria characteristics
Muscle stiffness, bradykinesia (slowness of movement), major cause is Parkinson’s disease and dyskinesias (involuntary movement)
Hyperkinetic dysarthria characteristics
Involuntary movements ranging from rapid to slow movements affecting speech production, major cause Huntington’s chorea
Mixed dysarthria characteristics
Mix of two or more pure dysarthria type, major cause is amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) aka Lou Gehrig s disease
Parkinson’s disease
Brain disorder that affects movement. Some symptoms are resting tremor, slow/ involuntary movement and balance problems. Cause is unknown
Dyskinesias
Involuntary movements due to overdosing on medications
Huntington’s chorea
Genetic disorder affecting the brain and worsens over time. Causes uncontrolled, jerky movements, and changes in thinking, behavior and emotions
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) AKA Lou Gehrig’s disease
Progressive disease that affects the nerve cells controlling muscles, over time the nerve cells weaken and die leading to muscle weakness, difficulty moving, speaking, swallowing (flaccid-spastic mixed dysarthria) cause is unknown
Apraxia of speech
Difficulty speaking/ moving voluntarily, disorder of motor programming (organizing and planning)
Etiology of apraxia of speech
Broca’s area in the frontal lobe
Management of apraxia of speech
Begin therapy at a point that will challenge but not frustrate, hierarchical approach (start easier and progress to harder) , use augmentative communication to supplement verbal attempts (gesture, writing, communication board etc)
Number of graphemes (letters) in the English language
26
Number of phonemes (speech sounds) in English language
41-43
Transcription
Listening and writing down symbols for spoken sounds
Articulation
Shaping of the speech sounds by the articulators (lips, tongue, mouth etc)
Vowels vs consonants production
Vowels produced with open vocal tract, consonants produced with some degree of vocal tract constriction
Characteristics to look for in vowels
Tongue advancement (front, middle, back), tongue height (high, mid, low), lip position (rounded vs retracted), amount of tension in articulations (tense vs lax)
Characteristics to look for in vowels
Tongue advancement (front, middle, back), tongue height (high, mid, low), lip position (rounded vs retracted), amount of tension in articulations (tense vs lax)
Consonants are classified according to
PLACE of articulation (which articulators are used), MANNER of production (how the sound is made), VOICING (whether or not there is vocal fold vibration to produce the sound)
Diphthong
Combining two vowels that are in close proximity and treated as a single phoneme ( ex. In “out” the “a” and “u” blend to make a single sound, “boy” the “o” and “I” sounds blend together to make one sound)
Phonology vs articulation
Phonology is the study of the sounds of a language and the rules that govern the production and combination of those sounds. Articulation is the physical production of these sounds
Phonology impairments
having trouble understanding or using the basic rules of a language (conceptualization or rules of the language)
Articulation impairments
Due to sound production difficulties
Functional disorders
Difficulties in phonology, articulation, or swallowing with unknown cause (ex. Child who struggled to pronounce “r” or “s” but there is no issue with their tongue or mouth structure)
Developmental impairment in children
Delays or difficulties in the child’s ability to develop normal speech, language, or communication skills (ex. Difficulty producing sounds correctly, problems with speech patterns substituting sounds or omitting the dysarthria, apraxia, cleft palate etc)
Aphasia
Language impairment due to neurological disorder, affects all language modalities (reading, writing, verbal expression, auditory comprehension) person appears as if they are not cognitively competent when they actually are