Clinical Characteristics
What is the hallmark characteristic of Ataxic Dysarthria?
Drunken Speech
What are the two areas of speech mostly affected in Ataxic Dysarthria?
Articulation and Prosody
What is the most common cause of Ataxic Dysarthria?
Degenerative Diseases
Name an assessment you would use for Ataxic Dysarthria
Frenchay
What are some examples of treatment targets?
Intelligibility and prosody using the WHO ICF
What is impacted due to cerebellum damage?
Emotional regulation and cognition
Patients may present with deficits in what areas?
Respiratory, Phonatory, Resonatory, and Articulatory
What is the least common cause of Ataxic Dysarthria?
Cancer, Inflammatory, and Metabolic Diseases
What would someone present with after being given an oral-mechanism exam?
Typical