Management Flashcards
Overall goal of managing motor speech disorders is to…
Improve communication
3 overall things that management should focus on
Restoring, compensation, adjusting to MSDs
5 factors that the decision to treat and selection of management strategies are influenced by
- Medical diagnosis and prognosis
- Disability and societal limitations
- Environment in which communication will occur and the characteristics of the patient’s communication partners
- Patient’s motivation and needs for communication
- Presence and nature of additional problems that may affect communication (memory, learning impairments, oral sensory and motor deficits)
Treatment should be terminated when _____, _____, or _______
- Functional goals are met
- True plateauing occurs
- Patient decides they no longer want treatment
Management of MSDs can be _____, _____, or ______
Medical, prosthetic, or behavioral
Medical management of MSDs can include
Pharmacologic and surgical (some might be done to improve speech and others can be done to treat general effects of the causal conditions)
Prosthetic management includes
Mechanical and electronic devices (some improve speech or intelligibility whereas others augment or substitute verbal communication)
Behavioral management for motor speech disorders includes
- Speech oriented treatment (improve intelligibility, efficiency, or naturalness or spoken communication by reducing or compensating for underlying impairment)
- Communication oriented treatment . (Emphasize environmental modifications and strategies for interacting and repairing breakdowns in communication when they occur) (AAC)
General principles of management of MSDs (4 things)
- Recognizing the relevance of medical and speech diagnoses
- Advantages of starting management early on
- The need to acquire baseline data to set goals and measure change
- Value of increasing physiologic support early in treatment
Actual treatment of MSDs must recognize (5 things)
- Patient’s need to make speech a conscious act
- Importance of principles of motor learning in the conduction of treatment
- Importance of drills
- Value of instruction, self-learning and feedback
- Value of consistent and variable practice
Overall, treatment of flaccid dysarthrias should focus on…
Increase strength or compensate for weakness
Flaccid dysarthria treatment should focus on the ____, _____, ____, and _____ components of speech
respiratory, phonatory, resonatory, and articulatory
Respiratory goals for flaccid dysarthria
- Increase sub glottal air pressure on non speech tasks
- Increase maximum vowel duration
- Increase loudness
- Increase breath group duration and words per breath group
- Establish maximum breath groups for speech
Methods to increase physiologic support for speech breathing in flaccid dysarthria
- Pushing/pulling exercises to increase respiratory support and drive
- Postural adjustments
- Prosthetic aids
- Compensatory efforts- deep inhalation, controlled exhalation, inspiratory checking, increased force
Spastic dysarthria treatment techniques
- Relaxation exercises
- Stretching exercises of the articulators
- Reducing rate of speech movements
- Use of anti spasticity medications
Ataxic dysarthria treatment techniques
- Pharmacological treatments have been effective
- Behavioral treatment is the focus
- Improve or compensate for difficulties related to motor control and coordination
- Modifying rate and prosody to improve intelligibility and when possible, modifying such to improve naturalness (LSVT)
Treatment techniques for ataxic dysarthria
- Similar in nature to flaccid dysarthria
- Laryngeal surgical and neurosurgical interventions
- Deep brain stimulation- reduce activity in overactive brain structures through inhibition of neuronal firing or facilitation of inhibitory interneurons
- Pharmacological Treatments- Effects of parkinsonian medication can fluctuate as a function of the drug cycle
Behavioral management of hypo kinetic dysarthria should focus on (4 things )
Respiration, phonation, rate, and prosody
Popular behavioral treatment for hypo kinetic dysarthria
LSVT
Hyperkinetic dysarthria treatment is primarily
Surgical, pharmacologic (although research has indicated that behavioral treatments have benefited some patients)
Treatment for unilateral upper motor neuron dysarthria focuses on (3 things)
Rate, prosody, and articulation
Mixed dysarthria treatment…
may vary
Speaker oriented treatment for respiration
- Increasing respiratory support
- Prosthetic assistance
- Behavioral compensation and control
- Instrumental biofeedback
Speaker oriented treatment for phonation
- Laryngeal framework and related laryngeal surgeries (medialization, larygoplasty, resection of recurrent laryngeal nerve)
- Injectable substances for vocal fold paralysis (collagen, homologous collagen, autologous fat)
- Botulinum toxin injections (for spasticity)
- Pharmacological management