final exam Flashcards

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flaccid dysarthria

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impairments of lmns in cranial or spinal nerves (pns damage)

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flaccid dysarthria causes

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caused by any disorder that disrupts flow of neural impulses along lmns travel to reach muscles

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location of damage flaccid

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final common pathway

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final common pathway

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last and only road nueral impulses from umns travel to reach muscles

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flaccid injuries

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brainstem stroke, growing tumor, viral or bacterial infections, physical trauma, surgical accidents, mysathenia gravis, guillain-barre syndrome, polio, muscular dystrophy, progressive bulbar palsy

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speech charateristics flaccid

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  • May NOT demonstrate deficits in all areas; severity level will vary
  • Hallmarks: slow-labored articulation, marked degrees of hypernasal resonance, hoarse-breathy phonation
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resonance characteristcs flaccid

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  • Hypernasality most common
  • Nasal emission
  • Weak pressure consonants
  • Shortened phrases
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articulation characteristics flaccid

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imprecise consonant production

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phonation characteristics flaccid

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Phonatory incompetence (incomplete adduction of VFs during phonation) giving hoarse-breathy voice

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respiration characteristics flaccid

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  • May not be affected
  • If it is, you would see reduced loudness and speaking on residual air
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prosody characteristics flaccid

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  • Monopitch, monoloudness
  • Not unique to flaccid so not a diagnostic marker
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evaluation tasks

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  • Look for clusters of symptoms when trying to diagnose
  • Conversational speech and reading: Can evoke errors of resonance, arctic, respiration, and prosody
  • AMR: /puh puh puh/ /tuh tuh tuh/ /kuh kuh kuh/. Will highlight a slowed rate of phoneme production
  • Prolonged vowel: Will elicit breathy voice quality heard in phonatory incompetence
  • Speech stress test: Necessary IF myasthenia gravis is suspected
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treatment flaccid

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  • Treatments are according to which cranial nerve
  • Needs and abilities vary greatly
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resonance treatment flaccid

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Velar strength-training procedure; modification of speech; reduce rate

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phonation treatment flaccid

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Pushing and pulling procedures, hard glottal attack

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prosody treatment flaccid

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Pitch range exercises, intonation profiles, contrastive stress drills

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respiratory treatment flaccid

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Correct posture, prosthetics, speaking immediately on exhalation

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spastic dysarthria

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bilateral damage to umn tracts

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pyramidal system spastic

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damage = weak/slow skilled movements

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extrapyramidal system spastic

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damage = weakness, increased muscle tone (spasticity), and abnormal reflexes

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injuries spastic dysarthria

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  • stroke - most common; only occurs in LH and RH as a combo OR single in brainstem
  • degenerative diseases: ALS, multiple sclerosis
  • TBI
    -infection
    -tumors
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speech characteristics spastic

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-imprecise consonants, monopitch, monoloudness, reduced stress, harsh vocal quality
- Errors result bc of spasticity, slowness, weakness in vocal-tract muscles

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articulation characteristics spastic

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Imprecise consonant productions, vowel distortions

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phonation characteristics spastic

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Harsh vocal quality, Strained-strangled, Low pitch

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resonance characteristics spastic

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hypernasality

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prosody characteristics spastic

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Monopitch, monoloudness, short phrases, short rate of speech

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evaluation tasks spastic

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  • Conversational speech and reading
  • AMR (ppp, ttt, kkk)
  • Vowel prolongations
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treatment spastic

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  • Phonation deficits: work on relaxation, easy onset of phonation, yawn-sigh, tongue and lip stretching
  • Articulation deficits: intelligibility drills, phonemic placement, minimal contrast drills
  • Prosody deficits: pitch range exercises, contrastive stress drills, chunking utterances
  • Resonance deficits: pharyngeal flap, palatal lift
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special spastic

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  • Pseudobulbar affect- uncontrollable crying or laughing
  • Drooling and swallowing issues
  • Pseudobulbar palsy- weakness and slowness in same muscle
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uumn dysarthria

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  • caused by damage to upper motor neurons one side of the brain that supply cranial and spinal nerves involved in speech production
  • usually less severe than with bilateral damage
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location of damage uumn

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  • Lower face and tongue
  • Any condition that damages upper motor neurons on one side of brain after damage to either left or right hemisphere
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injuries uumn

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  • Most frequent cause is stroke; specifically stokes involving frontal lobe
  • Tumors and TBI can be a cause, but they are uncommon
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speech characteristics uumn

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  • Weakness in lower face, lips, and tongue on opposite side of lesion
  • Mild or moderate speech production errors - often short term with recovery after days or weeks
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articulation uumn

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-primary deficit
- Imprecise consonant production, articulatory breakdowns, slow and irregular AMRs

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phonation uumn

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Mild to harsh vocal quality

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resonance uumn

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Hypernasality

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prosody and respiration uumn

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Rarely impaired

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evaluation tasks uumn

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  • Medical records
  • Conversational speech or reading paragraph
  • AMR tasks
  • Prolonged vowel
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treatment uumn

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  • Coexciting deficits are usually treated
  • Artic may be so minor that SLP may decide not to treat
  • Intelligibility drills, phonetic placement, exaggerating consonants, minimal contrast drills
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ataxic dysarthria

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due to damage to cerebellum or its neural pathways

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location of damage ataxic

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cerebellum, inferior peduncles, middle peduncle, superior pedunle, cerebellar control circuits

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cerebellum ataxic

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coordinate timing and force of muscular contractions; attached to brainstem; communicates with rest of CNS through 3 bundles of neural tracts called cerebellar peduncles

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inferior peduncles ataxic

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receives sensory info

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middle peduncle ataxic

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smooths and refines the planned movement

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superior peduncle ataxic

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Sends out the motor impulses

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cerebellar control circuits ataxic

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neurons that course through 3 cerebellar pathways

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injuries ataxic

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  • Stroke
  • Toxic conditions
  • Metabolic conditions
  • Traumatic head injury
  • Tumors
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speech characteristics ataxic

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  • Movements appear poorly coordinated, problems controlling timing/force for speech, slurred, monotonous arctic, primarily disorder of artic and prosody
  • Scanning speech - slow, deliberate production of syllables with each syllable in a word receiving equal stress
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articulation ataxic

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  • Imprecise consonant production
  • Distorted vowels
  • Irregular articulatory breakdowns
  • Decomposition of movement: manifestations of cerebellar dysfunction, where instead of smooth coordinated movements, they are distinct and jerky
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prosody ataxic

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  • Equal and excess stress
  • Prolonged phonemes and prolonged intervals between phonemes
  • Monopitch and monoloudness
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phonation ataxic

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  • Harsh vocal quality
  • Voice tremor
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resonance ataxic

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  • Hyponasality
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respiration ataxic

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  • Uncoordinated movements in respiratory muscles, contributing to speech deficits
  • Paradoxical movements: movements that occur when muscles work against each other rather than in coordination
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evaluation tasks ataxic

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  • Speech alternate motor tasks: slower than normal, difficulty maintaining steady rhythm with repetition
  • Reading, conversational speech, and repeating sentences containing numerous multisyllabic words
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respiration treatment ataxic

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  • Do not need to address strengthening
  • Concentrate on controlling airflow more accurately during speech, as uncoordinated movements of respiratory muscles cause speech on residual air, affecting prosody and phonation
  • Slow and controlled exhalation
  • Speak immediately on exhalation
  • Stop phonation early
  • Optimal breath group - teaching how many syllables or words can be said clearly on one full inhalation
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prosody treatment ataxic

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  • Slow rate
  • Incorporating more typical stress and intonation into utterances
  • Rate control: Reciting syllables to a metronome, Finger or hand tapping, Cued reading material
  • Stress and intonation: Contrastive stress drills, Pitch range exercises, Intonation profiles, Chunking utterances into syntactic units
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articulation treatment ataxic

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  • Intelligibility drills
  • Phonetic placement
  • Exaggerating consonants
  • Minimal contrast drills
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hypokinetic

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any process that damages basal ganglia (extrapyramidal system)

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main cause of hypokinetic

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  • Parkinsonism - collective term for different disorders sharing many similar symptoms
  • Causes:
    Idiopathic parkinson’s disease
    Neuroleptic-induced parkinsonism
    Postencephaltic parkinsonism
    Traumatic head injury
    Toxic metal poisoning
    Stroke
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symptoms hypokinetic

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  • Resting tremor
  • Bradykinesia: slow, reduced range of movement
  • Rigidity
  • Spasticity
  • Akinesia: delay in initiation of movements
  • Postural reflexes
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location of damage hypokinetic

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dysfunction in basal ganglia; depends on balanced interaction of dopamine and acetylcholine

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speech characteristics hypokinetic

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harsh vocal quality, reduced stress, monoloudness, imprecise consonants; significant indvidual differences

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prosody hypokinetic

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monopitch, reduced stress, and monoloudness most common

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articulation hypokinetic

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imprecise consonants, repeated phonemes, palilalia

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phonation hypokinetic

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harsh/breathy quality, aphonia, low pitch

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respiration hypokinetic

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sometimes noted

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evaluation tasks hypokinetic

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-conversational speech and reading: evoke errors of prosody
-AMRs: highlight artic errors
-vowel prolongations: assess vocal quality

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pharamcologic treatment hypokinetic

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-L-dopa
-replacing dopamine in striatum
-correct neurotransmitter imbalance by decreasing acetylcholine activity in striatum

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surgical treatments hypokinetic

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-ablative surgery
-deep brain stimulation
-stem cell implantation

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articulation treatment hypo

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  • Most common deficit: imprecise consonants due to reduced range of motion in arctic
  • Compounded by increased ate
  • Rate reduction, stretching, traditional artic tasks
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phonation treatment hypo

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  • Adduct VFs only partially or have harsh or breathy voice quality
  • Pushing and pulling procedure, hard glottal attack, LSVT
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respiration treatment hypo

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  • Speaking immediately on exhalation
  • Stop phonation early
  • Optimal breath group
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prosody treatment hypo

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  • Intonation profiles
  • Contrastive stress drills
  • Chunking utterances into syntactic units
  • All used to Slow rate
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hyperkientic dysarthria

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caused by damage to the basal ganglia

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causes of hyperkinetic dysarthria

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  • Myoclonus - involuntary and brief contractions of part, whole, or group of muscles in same area
  • Tics
  • Essential tremor - benign hyperkinetic movement disorder that causes tremulous movements in affected body parts
  • Dystonia
  • Degenerative diseases
  • Traumatic head injury
  • Stroke
  • Infections
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evaluation tasks hyper

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-Vowel prolongation
- AMRs
- Conversational speech and reading
- Careful observation of associated involuntary movements

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treatment hyper

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-Pharamacologic - drugs that suppress involuntary movements that cause speech deficits
- Botox
- Deep brain stimulation

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treatment for huntingtons disease

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  • Early stages - maintain normal prosody and optimal rate
  • Middle stages - rate of speech, rhythmic breathing and relaxation, speaking on exhalation
  • Progressive dementia - work closely with caregivers
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treatment for tic disorders

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Behavioral treatments:
- Habit reversal training
- Relaxation therapy may be helpful when combined with other treatment procedures
- Exposure response prevention
- Comprehensive behavioral intervention for tics

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dystonia (part of hyper)

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  • Causes involuntary, prolonged muscle contractions
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dystonia artic hyper

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imprecise consonants, distorted vowels, irregular articulatory breakdowns, prolonged phonemes

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prosody dystonia

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monopitch, monoloudness, inappropriate silences, shortened phrases

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phonation dystonia

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harsh vocal quality, strained-strangled quality, excess loudness variation

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respiration and resonance dystonia

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less impacted

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treatment dystonia

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  • Sensory tricks - idiosyncratic strategies that can suppress involuntary movement for a time
  • Bite blocks - to stabilize jaw during speech
  • Easy onset of phonation
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chorea (part of hyper)

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  • Sydenham’s chorea - rare disorder affecting children after rheumatic fever
  • Huntington’s disease - progressive inherited disorder
  • Tardive dyskinesia - caused by taking certain antipsychotics
  • Stroke - rare to cause chorea
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speech characteristics chorea

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Prolonged intervals between syllables and words, inappropriate silences, prolonged phonemes, intermittent breathy voice quality

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mixed dysarthria

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  • when neurologic damage extends into two or more parts of motor system; any combo of pure dysarthrias
  • Prominence of each pure dysarthria within mixed dysarthria within mixed dysarthria varies significantly among individuals
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injuries mixed dysarthria

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  • Single or multiple strokes
  • Brain tumors
  • Traumatic head injuries
  • Degenerative diseases
  • Infectious diseases
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • multisystems atrophy
  • amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
  • wilson’s disease
    -friedreich’s ataxia
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multiple sclerosis

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  • Progressive demyelinating disease
  • Can occur in brainstem, cerebellum, cerebral hemispheres, and spinal cord
  • Can cause any pure or any combo of mixed dysarthria
  • Ataxic-spastic most common
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multisystems atrophy

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  • Collective term for group of degenerative disorders, many including parkinsonian symptoms:
  • Shy-drager syndrome
  • Progressive supranuclear palsy
  • Olivopontocerebellar atrophy
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amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

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  • Progressive degeneration of any four areas of motor neurons
  • Often progresses from affecting two motor neuron groups to all four
  • Mixed dysarthria predominates throughout much of this disorder
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wilson’s disease

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  • Very rare hereditary disease preventing normal metabolism of dietary copper
  • Penicillamine successful in treating most patients
  • Dysarthria of earliest signs
  • ataxic-spastic -hypokinetic present in many
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friedreich’s ataxia

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  • Rare, inherited, progressive disorder
  • Causes neuron degeneration in cerebellum, brainstem, and spinal cord
  • Untreatable, fatal
  • Ataxic-spastic most prevalent
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treatment mixed

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  • General rule: first treat component most severely affecting speech production
  • When all are equally affected: respiration, resonation, phonation, articulation, prosody (RRPAP)
  • AAC for ALS
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apraxia of speech

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disorder of motor timing and sequencing

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ideational apraxia

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uncommon; disturbance in conception of object or gesture

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ideomotor apraxia

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disturbance in performance of movements needed to use object, make gesture, sequence movements

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location of damage apraxia

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Motor speech programmer - neural network in the brain that sequences motor movements needed to produce speech.
- first analyzes linguistic, motor, sensory, and emotional info
- Near perisylvian area of left hemisphere

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injuries apraxia

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  • Stroke
  • Degenerative disease
  • Trauma
  • tumor
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speech characteristics apraxia

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  • Primarily disorder of articulation and prosody
  • Slow, labored, halting speech
  • Instances of groping
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articulation apraxia

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most common errors

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prosody apraxia

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frequently abnormal

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respiration apraxia

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may have difficulty taking deep breath on command

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resonance and phonation apraxia

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seldom issues

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assessment strategies apraxia

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  • SMRs - sensitive assessment
  • Conversational speech and reading aloud - determine effects of prosody
  • Repeating words of increasing length
  • Reading or repeatin low-frequency, multisyllabic words in isolation or sentences
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categories to determine correct diagnosis apraxia

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  • Primary clinical characteristics
  • Non Discriminative clinical characteristics
  • Behaviors usually found in disorders other than apraxia
  • Behaviors that rule out presence of apraxia
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treatment apraxia

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Goal: help patient relearn motor sequences to produce phonemes accurately

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sequencing treatment apraxia

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  • Repetitive and intensive drill
  • Patients learn to self-monitor
  • Concentrate on functional words
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articulatory kinematic treatments apraxia

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Concentrate on improving timing and placement of articulatory movements through modeling, positioning of articulators, and repetition

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rate and rhythm procedues apraxia

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Assume apraxia primarily result of timing errors

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AAC apraxia

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Recommended with limited verbal communication

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interystemic facilitation and reorganization treatment apraxia

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Patient’s communicative strengths used to assist verbal speech

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parkinsonism

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known cause

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parkson;s disease

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unknown etiology

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important to know parkinsonism

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  • Basal ganglia damage
  • Festinating speech: same as gait just speech related
  • Festinating gait: walking starts slow → fast, quick, short
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features of CAS

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  • inconsistent errors
  • inappropriate prosody
    -groping
    -vowel errors
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treatments CAS

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-prompt
-rest
-dttc
-NDP3
-cycles

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prompt

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-tactile-kinetshetic-propriocetive based tx
-emphasizes normalization of speech movement patterns in an age-appropriate, functional lexicon of words

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ReST

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-high intensity practice of randomly presented pseudowords with varying phonetic structure and lexical stress

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dttc

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-cueing hierarchy
-never in isolation, start with the easiest and work it up

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NDP3

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-bottom-up approach builds from single sounds to syllables and syllable sequencing

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  1. primary clinical characteristics
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-prosody
-slow speech rate
-slow speech rate w/pauses
-distorted phonemes with substitutions
-consonants and vowels are distorted
-inconsistent articulation errors

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  1. nondiscriminitive clinical characteristics
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-self-corrects and shows signs of awareness
-difficulty initiating speech
-speech errors increase as word length increases
-artic groping

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  1. behaviors usually found in disorders other than AOS
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-demonstrates difference between expressive and receptive speech and language skills
-has transposition errors
-anticipatory articulation errors
-presence of limb or oral apraxia

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  1. Behaviors that rule out presence of AOS
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-fast speech rate
-normal speech rate
-normal prosody