Motor Speech Disorders Flashcards
Speech Motor Control
an individual’s control of muscular coordination involved with the production of speech
Motor Speech Disorder
impairment of speech production caused by defects of the neuromuscular system, the motor system or both
defects involve programing, planning and or execution of speech
cannot be explained by other disorders such as language, cognitive or phonological impairments
5 Domains of Language
Pragmatics, Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Morphology
5 Sensory Domains
Pain, Temperature, Touch, Vibration, Proprioception
5 Domains Speech Sound Production
Respiration Phonation Resonation Articulation Prosody
Respiration (key structures, muscles/articulators)
Key Structures- Lungs
Muscles/Articulators- Respiratory Musculature
Phonation (key structures, muscles/articulators)
Key Structures- Larynx
Muscles/Articulators- Vocal folds
Resonation (key structures, muscles/articulators)
Key Structures- Velopharyngeal Port
Muscles/Articulators- Velum and Pharynx
Articulation (key structures, muscles/articulators)
Key Structures- Oral Cavity/Articulators
Muscles/Articulators- Mandible (jaw), lips, tongue, teeth
Prosody (key structures, muscles/articulators)
Key Structures- all others
Muscles/Articulators- impacted by all
Muscles can be….
paralyzed (unable to move) weak (inability to move adequately) spastic (too much tone, tight) flaccid (too little tone, loose, flabby) uncoordinated
muscle can…
- move to far or not far enough
- in the wrong direction
- move with too much or too little strength
- move at the wrong time in sequence or stop moving
Disorders of Motor Planning/Programing
inability to group/sequence the relevant muscles with respect to one another in order to plan or program movement
Disorders of Execution
deficiency or inefficiency in basic physiological or movement characteristics of the muscles such as tone, speech and or range
Apraxia of Speech (AOS)
AOS is the inability to transform a linguistic representation into appropriate coordinated muscular movements of the articulators
- disorder of motor planning/programming
- planning: process that defines/sequences of articulation goals prior to their occurrence
- programming: process for establishing and preparing the flow of motor information across muscles for speech production and specifying timing and force required for all movements
AOS Characteristics
- effortful, slow speech w/increased pauses b/w syllables and sounds
- prolonged duration of speech sounds
- distortion of the speech sounds
- reduced prosody (pitch, duration, loudness b/w stress, and unstressed syllables)
- groping
- absence of muscular weakness
- increased difficulty as the utterance length advances
- inconsistent errors
- no weakness