Swallowing
a common postural swallow strategy recommended when someone is coughing with liquids.
This strategy helps prevent aspiration in some people, but for others, it can make things worse and cause aspiration.
What is the Chin Tuck?
A medical diagnosis that is a general umbrella term for loss of memory, language, problem-solving and other cognitive abilities that interferes with daily function.
What is Dementia?
An impairment in comprehension and/or use of a spoken, written, and/or other communication symbol system.
What is a language disorder?
This is diagnosed when voice quality, pitch, and loudness differ or are inappropriate for an individual’s age, gender, cultural background, or geographic location
What is a voice disorder?
What are some Causes of Dysarthria?
A medical diagnosis for an impairment in the oral, pharyngeal and/or esophageal phase of swallowing.
What is dysphagia?
Internal or external strategies that an SLP can train to help a patient overcome challenges from memory loss
What are memory strategies?
A condition that affects ones ability to communicate. It can affect expressive language, receptive language, reading and/or writing.
It typically occurs suddenly after a stroke or a head injury. But it can also come on gradually from a slow-growing brain tumor or a disease that causes progressive damage.
What is Aphasia?
An evidence based voice treatment an SLP provides for patients with Parkinson's Disease with reduced vocal loudness and reduced speech intelligibility.
What is LSVT LOUD?
Lee Silverman's Voice Treatment
A medical diagnosis for a speech disorder caused by muscle weakness that impairs articulation skills resulting in unintelligible speech.
What is dysarthria?
When food or liquid gets into the airways or lungs, instead of being swallowed.
What is aspiration?
An evidenced based cognitive intervention SLPs can use to train recall of functional information over progressively longer intervals of time.
What is Spaced Retrieval technique?
A medical term for an impairment in word finding.
What is anomia?
Train vocal hygiene, refer to ENT for imaging of vocal folds, improve respiratory support for strong voice (EMST), laryngeal massage, and facilitate/train voice exercises.
What are some interventions an SLP may use to treat voice?
Slow rate of speech, over-exaggerate speech, increase loudness, one word at a time, etc
What are compensatory speech strategies an SLP trains?
an infection that can develop after inhaling oropharyngeal pathogens into the lungs that have first colonized in the oropharynx.
These pathogens can be brought into the lungs by saliva, liquids, food.
What is aspiration PNA?
1. Attention
2. Language
3. Executive Functioning/Problem-Solving
4. Memory
5. Visual-Spatial Perception
What are 5 areas of cognition that an SLP treats?
any type of low tech, no tech, or high tech form of communication used INSTEAD of verbal communication.
This can include writing, gesture, pantomime, low tech picture board, speech generating device etc.
What is Alternative means of communication?
(Augmentative and Alternative Communication)
How we use our vocal folds and breath to make sounds. It can can be loud or soft or high- or low-pitched. We can hurt it by talking too much, yelling, or coughing a lot.
What is voice?
What are signs of Dysarthria?
Train aspiration precautions, train safe swallow strategies, facilitate oral motor/laryngeal/pharyngeal swallow exercises, diet prep education, diet texture analysis, monitor progress
What are ST interventions/therapy for swallowing?
Train memory and attention strategies, spaced retrieval technique, develop and implement external memory aids, functional tasks to improve activity and participation, cognitive HEP training, dementia staging caregiver training, and more.
What are some interventions ST can use to treat cognition?
Train word finding strategies, train caregiver in communication techniques, train alternative methods of communication, and improve receptive/expressive language skills via therapeutic tasks.
What are interventions an SLP can do to target language?
When placed on the hub of a tracheostomy tube this redirects air flow through the vocal folds, mouth and nose enabling voice and improved communication.
SLPs are typically are responsible for trialing these.
What is a speaking valve?
This is a medical diagnosis that is caused by any process or condition that compromises the structures and pathways of the brain responsible for planning and programming motor movements for speech.
Acquired apraxia of speech (AOS)