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What are the three types of disfluencies?
Blocks, repetitions, prolongations
Match the categories of voice disorders to the description
1. Organic Voice Disorders
2. Functional Voice Disorders
3. Psychogenic Voice Disorders
A. Voice misuse or overuse
B. Stress
C. Structural Abnormalities
1 (Organic) - C (Structural Abnormalities)
2 (Functional) - A (Voice Misuse or Overuse)
3 (Psychogenic) - B (Stress)
This therapy approach utilizes a patient's preserved ability to process and produce music, potentially accessing the right hemisphere to facilitate speech and language production for individuals with neurogenic speech disorders.
Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT)
Individuals with Dysarthria have difficulties with (SELECT ONE) motor planning and programming -OR- motor execution
Motor Execution
This is a therapy technique that uses a grid to help people with aphasia identify semantic relationships between words.
Semantic Feature Analysis (SFA)
Which is easier for individuals with Apraxia - a.) spontaneous speech, b.) greetings / rote phrases
b.) greetings / rote phrases
Name a characteristic of right hemisphere damage.
•Visuospatial neglect and other attention deficits
•Difficulties with memory
•Difficulties with executive function, such as problem solving, reasoning, organization, planning, and self-awareness
Provide three examples of secondary behaviors associated with stuttering
Eye blinking
Facial grimacing (e.g., jaw tightening, lip tremors)
Head nodding
Physical tension (e.g., in the neck, shoulders, face)
Word avoidance (e.g., substituting words, circumlocution)
Use of filler words ("um", "uh", "like")
Body movements (e.g., foot tapping, hand gestures)
Changes in pitch or loudness
I show Mr. Smith flashcards with pictures of animals and food, asking him to name each card. This is an example of:
Confrontation Naming
This therapy aims to improve word retrieval by strengthening connections between verbs and related nouns, focusing on the relationships between actions and objects.
Verb Network Strengthening Training (VNeST)
What is the etiology of Alzheimer's Disease?
A combination of age-related factors, genetics, and lifestyle.
This type of dysarthria is often characterized by weakness or paralysis of the muscles involved in speech, frequently resulting in hypernasality, breathiness, and reduced articulation.
Flaccid Dysarthria
In a conversation, a person with aphasia refers to a "television" as a "zargleflax." This language error, common in fluent aphasias, is characterized by the use of made-up, nonsensical words.
Neologisms
What is constraint-induced language therapy?
Prolonged Speech, Light Articulatory Contacts, and Easy Onsets are example of what direct treatment approach for stuttering?
Fluency Shaping (goal to minimize or eliminate stuttering)
Which lobe of the brain is associated with planning, higher order thinking, and problem solving?
Frontal Lobe
This type of aphasia is characterized by difficulty forming words and sentences, but language comprehension is relatively in tact.
Broca's or Wernicke's
Broca's Aphasia
This is a category of speech disorders caused by neurological damage, affecting the ability to plan, program, control, or execute speech movements.
Acquired Motor Speech Disorders
What is the standardized assessment used to evaluate fluency?
Stuttering Severity Index - Fourth Edition (SSI-4)
Cancellation, Pullouts, and Preparatory Sets are examples of what direct treatment approach for stuttering?
Stuttering Modification (alternating and navigating instances of stuttering so they are less impactful)
What is the difference between developmental stuttering and neurogenic stuttering?
Developmental - affects children
Neurogenic - typically occurs in adults due to changes in brain (e.g., stroke, disease, TBI, etc)
This voice therapy approach focuses on improving the function of the vocal mechanism itself, through exercises that target laryngeal muscle strength, coordination, and other physical aspects of voice production.
Physiologic Therapy
In class, I read aloud a list of items and asked you to immediately recall items, then gradually increased the time before asking again. This technique is an example of _______ .
Spaced Retrieval
Name one emotional and acceptance strategy used in fluency treatment?
Open Stuttering
Advertising Stuttering
Deliberate Stuttering
Acceptance and Commitment (ACT) Therapy
Growths on the vocal folds often caused by vocal abuse
Lesions (Nodes, Polyps, Cysts)