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Spastic Dysarthria Flashcards

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Salient Speech Features

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  • Strained/strangled
  • Harshness/grunting
  • Slow rate
  • Reduced pitch
  • Decreased range
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Revealing Assessment Tasks

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  • AMRs
  • Sustained /a/
  • Reading
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Related Speech Characteristics or Deficits

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  • Slow and regular AMRs

- “effortful” speech

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Confirmation Signs

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  • Positive reflexes
  • Hypertonia
  • Dysphagia/drooling
  • Pseudobulbar affect
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Common etiologies

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  • ALS
  • PLS
  • MS
  • PSP
  • Freidrich’s ataxia
  • CBD
  • MSA
  • OPCA
  • Wilson’s disease
  • Multiple strokes
  • CP in children
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Site of Lesion

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Bilateral UMN, direct and indirect pathways

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