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Flaccid Dysarthria Flashcards

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Salient Speech Features

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  • Breathiness
  • Hypernasality
  • Nasal emission
  • Short phrases
  • Diplophonia
  • Inhalation stridor
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Revealing Assessment Tasks

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  • Continuous speech
  • AMRs
  • Sustained /a/
  • Stress testing
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Related Speech Characteristics

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  • Normal rate and rhythm for AMRs
  • Reduced range
  • Reduced force
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Confirmation Signs

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  • Weakness
  • Atrophy
  • Fasciculations
  • Hypotonia
  • Nasal regurgitation
  • Diminished reflexes
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Common etiologies

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  • -ALS
  • OPCA
  • Shy-Drager syndrome
  • Guillain-Barre
  • MS
  • Surgery
  • Head trauma
  • Neuromuscular junction diseases (MG, Botulism)
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Site of lesion

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LMN

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