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flaccid dysarthria
impairments of lmns in cranial or spinal nerves (pns damage)
flaccid dysarthria causes
caused by any disorder that disrupts flow of neural impulses along lmns travel to reach muscles
location of damage flaccid
final common pathway
final common pathway
last and only road nueral impulses from umns travel to reach muscles
flaccid injuries
brainstem stroke, growing tumor, viral or bacterial infections, physical trauma, surgical accidents, mysathenia gravis, guillain-barre syndrome, polio, muscular dystrophy, progressive bulbar palsy
speech charateristics flaccid
- May NOT demonstrate deficits in all areas; severity level will vary
- Hallmarks: slow-labored articulation, marked degrees of hypernasal resonance, hoarse-breathy phonation
resonance characteristcs flaccid
- Hypernasality most common
- Nasal emission
- Weak pressure consonants
- Shortened phrases
articulation characteristics flaccid
imprecise consonant production
phonation characteristics flaccid
Phonatory incompetence (incomplete adduction of VFs during phonation) giving hoarse-breathy voice
respiration characteristics flaccid
- May not be affected
- If it is, you would see reduced loudness and speaking on residual air
prosody characteristics flaccid
- Monopitch, monoloudness
- Not unique to flaccid so not a diagnostic marker
evaluation tasks
- 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
treatment flaccid
- Treatments are according to which cranial nerve
- Needs and abilities vary greatly
resonance treatment flaccid
Velar strength-training procedure; modification of speech; reduce rate
phonation treatment flaccid
Pushing and pulling procedures, hard glottal attack
prosody treatment flaccid
Pitch range exercises, intonation profiles, contrastive stress drills
respiratory treatment flaccid
Correct posture, prosthetics, speaking immediately on exhalation
spastic dysarthria
bilateral damage to umn tracts
pyramidal system spastic
damage = weak/slow skilled movements
extrapyramidal system spastic
damage = weakness, increased muscle tone (spasticity), and abnormal reflexes
injuries spastic dysarthria
- stroke - most common; only occurs in LH and RH as a combo OR single in brainstem
- degenerative diseases: ALS, multiple sclerosis
- TBI
-infection
-tumors
speech characteristics spastic
-imprecise consonants, monopitch, monoloudness, reduced stress, harsh vocal quality
- Errors result bc of spasticity, slowness, weakness in vocal-tract muscles
articulation characteristics spastic
Imprecise consonant productions, vowel distortions
phonation characteristics spastic
Harsh vocal quality, Strained-strangled, Low pitch
resonance characteristics spastic
hypernasality
prosody characteristics spastic
Monopitch, monoloudness, short phrases, short rate of speech
evaluation tasks spastic
- Conversational speech and reading
- AMR (ppp, ttt, kkk)
- Vowel prolongations
treatment spastic
- 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
special spastic
- Pseudobulbar affect- uncontrollable crying or laughing
- Drooling and swallowing issues
- Pseudobulbar palsy- weakness and slowness in same muscle
uumn dysarthria
- 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
location of damage uumn
- Lower face and tongue
- Any condition that damages upper motor neurons on one side of brain after damage to either left or right hemisphere
injuries uumn
- Most frequent cause is stroke; specifically stokes involving frontal lobe
- Tumors and TBI can be a cause, but they are uncommon
speech characteristics uumn
- 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
articulation uumn
-primary deficit
- Imprecise consonant production, articulatory breakdowns, slow and irregular AMRs
phonation uumn
Mild to harsh vocal quality
resonance uumn
Hypernasality
prosody and respiration uumn
Rarely impaired
evaluation tasks uumn
- Medical records
- Conversational speech or reading paragraph
- AMR tasks
- Prolonged vowel
treatment uumn
- 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
ataxic dysarthria
due to damage to cerebellum or its neural pathways
location of damage ataxic
cerebellum, inferior peduncles, middle peduncle, superior pedunle, cerebellar control circuits
cerebellum ataxic
coordinate timing and force of muscular contractions; attached to brainstem; communicates with rest of CNS through 3 bundles of neural tracts called cerebellar peduncles
inferior peduncles ataxic
receives sensory info
middle peduncle ataxic
smooths and refines the planned movement
superior peduncle ataxic
Sends out the motor impulses
cerebellar control circuits ataxic
neurons that course through 3 cerebellar pathways
injuries ataxic
- Stroke
- Toxic conditions
- Metabolic conditions
- Traumatic head injury
- Tumors
speech characteristics ataxic
- 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
articulation ataxic
- 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
prosody ataxic
- Equal and excess stress
- Prolonged phonemes and prolonged intervals between phonemes
- Monopitch and monoloudness