MT for Children with Speech and Language Disorders

Question 1

Intelligibility

Answer 1

• calculated as percentage of speech that can be understood

Question 2

Disorders of respiration

Answer 2

• poor breath support compromises vibration of vocal folds

- reduces quality and volume of sound produced

Question 3

Disorders of phonation

Answer 3

• poor closure of vocal cords
• breathy or creaky sounding voice
• may be due to poor respiratory control or pathologies of vocal folds

Question 4

Disorders of articulation

Answer 4

• poorly coordinated or weak muscles will create indistinct and poorly intelligible speech

Question 5

Disorders of resonance

Answer 5

• when muscles of soft palate are weak

- voice sounds hypernasal or stuffy

Question 6

Dysarthria

Answer 6

• motor speech disorder caused by damage or poor functioning of central nervous system or peripheral nervous system
• treatment includes VIT and OMREX

Question 7

Flacid dysarthria

Answer 7

• children with down syndrome

- stuffy sounding, sluggish articulation

Question 8

Spastic dysarthria

Answer 8

• harsh, strained, or strangled vocal quality

Question 9

Dyskinetic dysarthria

Answer 9

• too much or too little movement resulting in undershooting or overshooting targets

Question 10

Ataxic dysarthria

Answer 10

• harsh vocal quality

- slurred and indistinct

Question 11

Apraxia

Answer 11

• disruption in action of speech at brain level

- brain is unable to properly send programmed commands to speech mechanism

Question 12

Circumlocutions

Answer 12

• substituting a word for one that can’t be articulated