Exam 1 Part 17 Flashcards
What is the purpose of a motor speech exam?
Description, diagnosis, confirmation, severity
What are some types of test do we do during a motor speech exam?
Vowel prolongation, Diadokokinesis, connected speech, oral motor structures/functions, standardized test battery
What are 2 types of standardized tests for dysarthria?
Frenchay dysarthria assessment, Assessment of Intelligibility of Dysarthric Speech
What are the 2 types of standardized tests for apraxia?
Apraxia battery for adults, Kaufman speech praxis
What are we treating/teaching in motor speech disorders?
Communication, address component of speech that is the most impaired, address the component that affects other components of speech
What are some types of behavioral treatments for motor speech disorders?
Increase articulation, increase respiration
What are some types of medical treatments for motor speech disorders?
Pharmacological, surgical management
What are types of prosthetic management for motor speech disorders?
AAC, palatal lifts, artificial voice
What are the 6 target areas for treating motor speech disorders?
Respiration, phonation, resonation, articulation, prosody, rate
Least target area that is treated, but can have a great impact
Respiration
What types of treatment can we use to treat the target area of phonation?
Botox injections, surgery with vocal fold paralysis, prosthetic voice, behavioral treatment
What type of treatment is not used to treat phonation?
Pharmacological
Target area that mainly deals, with velopharyngeal inadequacy; nasality and nasal emission
Resonance
What pharmacological treatment do we use to treat resonance?
None
What surgical treatment do we use to treat resonance?
Extend post pharyngeal wall
