Spastic Dysarthria
A state caused by bilateral upper motor neuron damage to the pyramidal and extrapyramidal systems
What is Spastic Dysarthria
True or False, The stroke is the least common cause of spastic dysarthria.
What is false? Stroke is the most common cause of spastic dysarthria.
List four prosody errors associated with Spastic Dysarthria.
what is Mono-pitch intonation, monoloudness, short phrases, and slow rate of speech?
This might result in increased speed and range of tongue and lip movements during speech and reducing hypertonicity
What is tongue and lip stretching.
What are the three key evaluation tasks for Spastic Dysarthria?
What is
1.conversational speech
2.Alternate motion rate (AMR)
3.vowel prolongation
What system does spastic dysarthria effect?
What is the central nervous system?
Define and describe ALS.
What is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis? A terminal disorder with an unknown cause that results in progressive degeneration of lower and upper motor neurons.
Uncontrollable crying or laughing that can accompany damage to the upper motor neurons of the brainstem.
What is pseudobulbar affect?
Head and Neck relaxation, easy onset of phonation and yawn-sigh exercise are 3 treatment strategies of what type of deficits in Spastic Dysarthria?
what are phonation deficits?
True of false? Upper motor neurons are grouped in two systems known as the central nervous system and respiratory system.
False, What is extrapyramidal and pyramidal system?
May be present in spastic dysarthria is usually not as severe as that heard in flaccid dysarthria. In addition, nasal emission is not common.
What is Hypernasality
What is cerebral Anoxia?
what is brain damage that occurs from a loss of oxygen in the blood?
True or False, Drooling is the most prominent characteristic in spastic dysarthria?
what is true?
Pitch range exercises , intonation profiles, contrastive stress drills, and chunking utterances into syntax units are treatment of which error?
what are prosody errors?
What is Pseudobulbar palsy?
what is an alternate term used to describe spastic dysarthria?
What type of deficits of spastic dysarthria are usually the result of weakness, reduced speed of movement, and reduced range of motion affecting the articulators?
What are articulation deficits?
It can affect upper motor neurons in a way similar to that of a single brainstem stroke. Because the pyramidal and extrapyramidal tracts are in such close proximity in the brainstem, a it can compress or destroy the upper motor neurons from both hemispheres and perhaps cause spastic dysarthria.
What is Brainstem Tumor
When speech production muscles of individuals are impacted, they demonstrate what characteristics ?
What is weakness, slow movements, spasticity, and abnormal reflexes?
What are the two types of treatments recommended to enhance a patients ability to accurately produce consonant phonemes?
Traditional articulation tasks and stretching
What was the most common articulation deficit in Darley, Aronson, and Brown’s subjects with spastic dysarthria?
What is imprecise articulation production?
True or False, 3.7 % of motor speech disorders are spastic dysarthria?
what is false ?
Bonus: Do you know the correct percentage?
Is a suspected immunologic disorder that results in the inflammation or complete destruction of the myelin sheath covering axons. It can affect myelin just about anywhere within the CNS, including the cerebral hemispheres, cerebellum, brainstem, and spinal cord.
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
Harsh vocal quality, strained vocal quality, and low pitch are what type of errors in spastic dysarthria?
What is Phonatory errors
These tasks are usually designed so that the clinician asks a question, and the patient answers it by adding stress on key words to convey the intended meaning of the answer.
What is Contrastive stress drills
what type of treatment for hypernasality is recommended only for cases in which the severity is what mild?
Whats is Behavioral treatment for hypernasality?