managing dysarthrias Flashcards

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speaker-oriented treatment

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medical, prosthetic, and behavioral tx directed at modifying respiration, phonation, resonance, artic, rate, prosody, and naturalness

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Respiration - Increasing respiratory support tx

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  • Require 5cm water pressure for 5 sec
  • Controlled exhalation
  • Pushing, pulling, bearing down
  • Inspiratory and Expiratory Muscle Strength Training
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Respiration - prosthetic tx

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  • Abdominal trussing for posture and support
  • Abdominal force for increased expiratory strength
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respiration- behavioral tx

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  • Deep breath before speech
  • Limit breaths per expiration: Establish optimal breath group and advance as tolerated
  • Speech breathing treatment + Lee Silverman Voice Therapy (LSVT)
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phonation- surgical tx

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  • VF paralysis or bowing: Medialization (type I) thyroplasty, Arytenoid adduction surgery, Surgical anastomosis
  • Adductor spasmodic dysphonia: Recurrent laryngeal nerve resection, Botox injection, Laryngeal adductor denervation-reinnervation, Lateralization (type II) thyroplasty
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phonation- prosthetic tx

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  • SpeechVive for increasing loudness in individuals with Parkinson’s disease
  • Ambulatory voice monitoring and feedback devices
  • Portable voice amplifier
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phonation- behavioral tx

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For unilateral/bilateral VF paralysis: effort closure techniques, initiate phonation at the beginning of exhalation, turning head, lateral digital manipulation, LSVT

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resonance - medical/surgical tx

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injection pharyngoplasty

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resonance- prosthetic tx

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  • palatal lift prosthesis
  • nasal obturator
  • one-way nasal speaking valve
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resonance- behavioral tx

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  • Modifying the pattern of speaking
  • resistance training (CPAP)
  • feedback
  • nonspeech velopharyngeal movement
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artic- medical/surgical tx

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  • Neural anastomosis
  • Botox injection
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artic- prosthetic tx

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bite block for jaw opening

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artic-behavorial

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  • Strength training: Not generally advised or considered effective
  • Stretching: may have some effect on increasing ROM and decreasing the effects of spasticity on speech; Sustained maximum jaw opening; tongue protrusion, retraction, or lateralization; and lip retraction, pursing, and puffing
  • Relaxation: Not advised; focus on speech movements
  • Biofeedback: Limited research
  • Traditional articulation methods: Integral stimulation, phonetic placement, phonetic derivation; Minimal contrasts, clear speech, intelligibility drills
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rate

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Possibly most effective treatment area at increasing intelligibility

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rate- prosthetic tx

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  • Delayed auditory feedback, pacing board
  • auditory and visual metronomes
  • alphabet supplementation
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rate- behavioral tx

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  • Slow speech rate, hand or finger tapping, rhythmic cueing, visual feedback, backdoor approaches
  • SLP should also adopt approach to model
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naturalness

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reflects the overall adequacy of prosody

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prosody- behavioral tx

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  • Breath group- prosodic pattern during a single exhalation
  • Chunking utterances
    Contrastive stress tasks
    Referential tasks
    Can convey stress by modifying pitch, loudness, or duration
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flaccid- main issue

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weakness
note: Exercises will not be successful if LMN innervation is completely lost

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flaccid- respiratory weaknesss

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  • need increase physiologic support for speech breathing
  • increase subglottal air pressure on nonspeech tasks, increase maximum vowel duration, increase loudness, increase breath group duration and words per breath group, and establish maximum breath groups for speech
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flaccid- Adductor VF weakness/paralysis

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  • medialization thyroplasty, arytenoid adduction surgery, surgery to reinnervate a paralyzed vocal fold, or injectable substances to bulk up the vocal folds
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flaccid- Velopharyngeal dysfunction

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palatal lift prosthesis

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flaccid- Lingual and labial weakness

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bite block

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flaccid- myasthenia gravis

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behavioral speech treatment contraindicated

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spastic tx

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  • Relaxation and stretching exercises?
  • Behavioral treatment for pseudobulbar affect?
  • Behavioral treatment for most affected speech characteristics
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ataxic tx

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  • focus on BEHAVIORAL tx
  • emphasis on improving or compensating for problems related to motor control and coordination
  • Modifying rate and prosody to improve intelligibility
  • Further modifying rate and prosody to improve naturalness
  • Techniques that emphasized rate, loudness, or pitch control
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hypokinetic- surgical tx

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  • VF paresis or bowing = medialization laryngoplasty or VF injections
  • Neurosurgical: thalamotomy, pallidotomy, and deep brain stimulation
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hypokinetic - pharmacologic tx

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Dopamine agonist medications (e.g., Simenet)

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hypokinetic - behavioral tx

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  • Rate control techniques (DAF, pacing boards), loudness (intensity monitors, amplification devices, improving posture, EMST)
  • LSVT LOUD
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LSVT LOUD characteristics

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  1. Intensity (four times per week for 1 month)
  2. Requirement for energetic, high levels of physical effort to increase loudness and vocal fold adduction
  3. Exclusive focus on respiratory-phonatory effort (i.e., not resonance, articulation, rate or prosody)
  4. Focus on increasing sensory awareness of loudness and effort. Exercise includes vowel, word, phrase, sentence, and conversation production tasks.
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hyperkinetic - Primarily surgical and pharmacologic tx

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  • Essential tremor, dystonia, dyskinesia, tics = deep brain stimulation
  • Spasmodic dysphonia (SD) = Botox injection
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hyperkinetic - behavioral prosthetic tx

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  • Jaw, tongue, or face dystonia =bite block, gum
  • Adductor SD =increasing pitch, breathy vocal quality
  • Adductor SD = hard glottal attacks, voicing voiceless consonants
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UUMN - behavioral tx

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  • Focus on rate, prosody, and articulation
  • Compensation > restoration
  • Mirror for reduced saliva management
  • As dysarthria is usually mild, SLP focus shifts to co-occurring impairments
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mixed tx

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  • Treat individual dysarthrias
  • note: Some treatments may be contraindicated by the presence of another dysarthria type
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ALS tx

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palatal lift prosthesis

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PSP tx

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LSVT

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communication-oriented tx

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  1. Speaker strategies
  2. Listener strategies
  3. Interaction strategies
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speaker strategies

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  • prep listeners with alerting signals
  • convey how communication should occure
  • set context/identify topic
  • modify sentence content, structure, length
  • gesturess
  • monitor listener comprehension
  • alphabet supplementation
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listener strategies

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  • maximize hearing and visual activity
  • eye contact
  • optimized physical environment
  • improve listening skills: perceptual training and listener familiarization
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interaction strategies

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  • schedule important interactions
  • select conductive speaking and listening environment
  • identify breakdowns sand est. methods of feedback
  • repair breakdowns
  • est. what works best and when