Managing Apraxia of Speech Flashcards
What should the clinician work on first, language or speech if a patient is diagnosed with aphasia and apraxia?
It may be best to work on the language problems first before working on apraxia.
Why is it difficult to determine sometimes if the error is due to apraxic problems or aphasia?
Aphasia very often co-occurs and influences treatment because it affects a person’s ability to understand oral directions and their verbal expressions.
What kind of medical treatment is available for patients with apraxia?
Medications are not used for apraxia nor injections.
Why are prosthetic devices such as palatal lift not necessary for patients with apraxia?
Hypernasality is not typically a severe problem in AOS. There can be exceptions.
What can be helpful to reduce rate of speech in patients with apraxia?
Pacing devices such as pacing boards, metronome, and finger tapping.
_________ has not typically been beneficial for patients with apraxia and has been disruptive to speech in patients with co-existing Broca’s aphasia.
Direct auditory feedback
AAC aids such as ____ _____ may help patients with apraxia.
letter boards
What do all behavioral management approaches emphasize for patients with apraxia?
- careful selection of stimuli
- orderly progression of treatment items
- intensive and systematic drill
What are the principles of motor learning?
- Drill, drill, drill
- patients need to develop self-monitoring and self-correction skills early
- Listen and watch me approach
- Use automatic speech to begin with
- Feedback is helpful
- Use speech tasks if possible
- Intensive practice/therapy
- Begin with consistent practice, then move to variable
- reduce rate to improve accuracy
What is involved in the drill, drill, drill principle of motor learning?
Intensive and systematic drill is essential to burn in motor program. One on one therapy is best. Can do group therapy only after one on one, when maximum benefit has been achieved.
What approach is helpful to a person who has to begin at the sound, syllable, or word level?
Listen and watch me approach: The clinician models and explains what is to be done, using phonetic placement information and cues for rate and stress. Fade cues as soon as possible.
How does automatic speech approach help patients with apraxia at the beginning?
It helps provide success
What are examples of automatic speech tasks?
Have them count, say days of the week.
Why is it helpful to have patient use a mirror for feedback?
To develop strong visual image of correct movement
What should a clinician focus on with a patient who is mute?
Focus on vegetative actions such as coughing, laughing, humming, and singing.
What should a clinician focus on when the patient has severe apraxia?
Focus on sound, syllable or non-speech tasks.
Use ____ tasks if possible. ________ tasks have not been found to be helpful unless the patient cannot make syllables or sounds.
speech
non-speech
What is inolved in intensive practice/therapy?
Use multiple repetition of stimuli
Explain the consistent practice and variable practice.
Do 10 reps of stress on one syllable, then 10-reps of stress on another syllable for consistent practice, then vary conditions.
Reduce _____ to improve accuracy. Once articulation is accurate then try to return no normal ______.
rate
rate
What is Rosenbek’s Eight step continuum? Articulatory kinematic Approach
- Integral stimulation-Patient listens and watches SLP as she makes sound/word then patient imitates while SLP simultaneous produces target.
- Same as step 1 but patient’s response is delayed and the clinician mimes the response without sound during the patient’s response.
- Integral stimulation followed by imitation without any simultaneous cues from clinician.
- Integral stimulation with several successive productions without any intervening stimuli and without simultaneous cues.
- Written stimuli are presented without auditory or visual cues, followed by patient production while looking at written stimuli.
- Written stimuli, with delayed production following removal of written stimuli. (count to 10 seconds)
- Response elicited by question, “what do you drink your coffee in?”
- Response target produced in role play situation.
What is sound production treatment (SPT)- Wambugh
Uses minimal contrasts (bye-pie) to aid in refining movement patterns that differentiate sounds. Works in hierarchy similar to the Rosenbek’s eight step plan.
What is Prompts for restructuring oral muscular phonetic targets (PROMPTS)?
- Tactile-kinesthetic input - highly structured finger placement on patients face and neck tell the articulatory placement.
- usually used with severe AOS with very limited verbal output.