The sounds made with the vocal and articulatory structures to verbally produce words.
What is SPEECH?
100
The severity level which AOS ranges.
What is mild-profound?
100
Abnormal muscle tone
Lack of strength
Cognitive deficits
Sensory difficulties
Lack of coordination
What is are characteristics of other Apraxias?
100
CVA, TBI, and Surgical Trauma.
What are the etiologies of AOS?
100
Inconsistent Speech;
Sound level errors:
Phoneme substitution
Phoneme distortion
Voice onset errors
Errors often occur in the 1st phoneme of the word.
What are articulation errors of AOS?
200
Disorders involving the effective manufacture, refinement, transmission, and execution of motor speech plans for speech.
What are MOTOR SPEECH DISORDERS?
200
When an individual is left completely mute.
What is a profound severity level of AOS?
200
The inability to program and carry out any volitional movements of the tongue, cheeks, lips, pharynx, or larynx command.
DAILY DOUBLE
What is Buccofacial-oral apraxia?
200
Issues that develop upon removal of aneurysm or brain tumor.
What is surgical trauma?
200
Effortful speech
Characterized by great deal of struggle and frustration.
Articulation Errors
Limited Prosody
Slowed Rate
Visible groping of the articulators.
What are CHARACTERISTICS of Apraxia of Speech
300
The lack of movement or action for speech production.
What is APRAXIA OF SPEECH?
300
Disguised as normal appropriate difficulties.
What is a mild characteristic of AOS?
300
The inability to program motor movements for the use of tools and the pantomiming of gestures despite possessing the knowledge of how the object is used and its function.
What is Ideomotor Apraxia?
300
The area of the brain that AOS damage occurs.
What is the left hemisphere?
300
The nature of AOS is rooted in the inability to produce in sequence the neural impulses necessary to create appropriate motor movements for speech.
What is the THEORY OF APRAXIA.
400
Network of neural structures in the CNS that contribute to the function of creating appropriate motor plans of speech.
What is the MOTOR SPEECH PROGRAMMER?
400
Production of very few words.
What is a severe characteristic of AOS?
400
The inability to conceptualize a task, formulate motor plans required for the task, or hold the memory of the idea of the task long enough to accomplish the task successfully.
What is ideational apraxia?
400
AOS occurs from damage to the Left Hemisphere inferior, postierior at or around the Frontal Lobe. The common name for this area.
What is Broca's Area?
400
AOS is often linked to Aphasia and Dysarthria, and rarely stands alone with no linguistic components.
What are CO-OCCURENCES of AOS?
500
In Greek means to act or move.
What is PRAXIS?
500
When an individual struggles to articulate appropriately.
What is a moderate characteristic of AOS?
500
An individual showing how they would brush their hair is an example of this.
What is the pantomiming of gestures?
500
The lesion site that has been debated by professionals.
What is a single focal lesion site?
500
Caused by lesion to the left cerebral hemisphere (not brain stem or subcortical structures).
EX: Hemiplegia, Hyperreflexia, Dysarthria, Buccofacial apraxia, non-fluent aphasia.