Motor speech

Question 1

A clinician is wanting to use an approach taht’s purpose is to shape a variety of utterances that may eventually be used volitionally. What approach is this

Answer 1

Multiple input phoneme therapy (MIPT)

Question 2

A 70 yr old man had a single left hemisphere stroke with possible damage to Broca’s area and the surrounding tissue. You reveal impaired oral sensation and a general awareness of his problem. Pt speaks deliberately slow and makes many speech errors that were highly variable, his automatic speech was relatively unaffected. He often substituted voiceless speech sounds for voiced ones.. Suspected diagnosis and assessment strategy should be?

Answer 2

Suspecting AOS
Assess in detail speech production problems, including imitated, evokes, and repetitive productions of phonemes, syllables, shorter and longer words and phrases and sentences, as well as automatic and spontaneous productions

Question 3

You are evaluating a pt of suspected severe AOS. What is NOT characteristic of severe AOS

Answer 3

There is an increased variability of articulatory charcateristics

Question 4

Intracranial arterities is a vascular etiology that is rarely or never a possible cause for what motor speech disorder?

Answer 4

Hypokinetic dysarthria

Question 5

You are assessing a 76-year-old woman for a possible diagnosis of aphasia. You are interested in finding out the specific type of aphasia the woman is experiencing. You notice that she has strong repetition skills, but she has trouble answering questions spontaneously. Her language comprehension is relatively intact, but her speech lacks intonation and rhythm. You notice that she has difficulties with lip and facial movements such as winking, whistling, coughing, and the like on command. This condition alone might suggest which of the following?

Answer 5

buccofacial apraxia