Exam 1 Part 15

Question 1

Apraxia that progresses into a more degenerative motor disease

Answer 1

Primary progressive apraxia of speech

Question 2

What are some characteristics of acquired apraxia of adults?

Answer 2

Unpredictable articulation/prosody errors, more errors with frequently occurring sounds

Question 3

Sounds that different a lot but are produced ____ to each other will have more problems

Answer 3

Next/close to

Question 4

What is prosody like for acquired apraxia for adults?

Answer 4

Equal stress, inappropriate pauses, reduced speed, poor intonation

Question 5

What are some frequent phoneme errors in apraxia?

Answer 5

s, t, d, z, j, th

Question 6

What are of speech is first to go in acquired apraxia of speech?

Answer 6

Prosody

Question 7

Does imitation assist with treating apraxia?

Answer 7

No

Question 8

Do people with acquired apraxia have auditory comprehension issues?

Answer 8

No

Question 9

True or false: people with acquired apraxia have, nonfluent, agrammatism, language issues?

Answer 9

False; none

Question 10

Inability to initiate speech

Answer 10

Aphemia

Question 11

__% of apraxia co-occurs with dysarthria and/or nonfluent aphasia (verbal apraxia)

Answer 11

88

Question 12

If someone has an apraxia that co-occur with aphasia, would the apraxia or aphasia show more?

Answer 12

Aphasia

Question 13

What are the best possible outcomes of apraxia of speech?

Answer 13

Single, small unilateral lesion in frontal lobe, mild aphasia, no non-verbal/oral apraxia, younger person, no history of neurological disorder, initiate treatment within 1 week of onset

Question 14

What are some characteristics of apraxia?

Answer 14

Phonemic errors are prominent, all errors appear perseveration or anticipatory, errors are off target, effortful groping, errors are inconsistent, monitoring of speech leads to prosody disturbances

Question 15

Saying a word or phoneme over again

Answer 15

Perseverative