Oral mech findings

Question 1

Flaccid oral mech

Answer 1

Atrophy and fasiculations!!!!!

Hypotonia/hypoactive gag/nasal regurgitation

Question 2

Spastic oral mech

Answer 2

pathological oral reflexes, hyperactive gag, pseudobulbar affect, dysphasia, drooling

Question 3

Ataxic oral mech

Answer 3

dysmetria in nonspeech jaw-face-tongue movements

Question 4

Hypokinetic oral mech

Answer 4

orofacial tremors, masked face

Question 5

hyper. oral mech

Answer 5

abnormal movement during movement and at rest

Question 6

UUMN

Answer 6

unilat. face/lingual weakness without atrophy or fasiculations

Question 7

AOS

Answer 7

Chewing swallowing gag WNL. No pathological relexes or tongue weakness
**Check for sensation!!

Question 8

What is NVOA?

Answer 8

Nonverbal Oral Apraxia - Problems with volitional movements while they can do them involentarily. (common with AOS) **ALWAYS ASSESS for this!!!

Question 9

DAF?~

Answer 9

processing skills are normal with AOS but DAF can cause more severe breakdowns with AOS and BROCAS than in normal speakers

Question 10

DEFINE APRAXIA!!!!

Answer 10

Neurologic speech disorder that reflects an impaired capacity to plan or program sesorimotor commands necessary for directing movements that result in phonetically and prosodically normal speech. It can occur if there is phycial damage – or without aphasia