What's it all about??
What are the primary affects of hypokinetic dysarthria?
Hypokinetic Dysarthria primarily affects the following areas: Voice, Articulation, Prosody.
What does LSVT stand for? What does this therapy focus on?
Lee Silverman Voice Treatment. This therapy focus's on Voice, using exercises to increase intensity and breathiness.
Where is the lesion in hypokinetic dysarthria?
Basal ganglia control circuit [BGCC].
What is Bradykinesia?
Slow and reduced range of movement.
What is the most common cause of hypokinetic dysarthria?
Parkinson's Disease.
What are the changes in prosody associated with hypokinetic dysarthria?
Monopitch, monoloudness tend to be most prominent. Also there can be festinating speech which is short rushes or bursts of speech.
What are the treatment step in LSVT?
1) Increase intensity via hard adduction.
2)Coordination of respiratory & phonatory effort.
What is included in the BGCC?
The BGCC includes the caudate nucleus, putamen, globus pallidus, substantia nigra, and subthalamic nuclei.
Bradykinesia is NOT the result of _______.
Muscle weakness.
Prosody errors are attributed to a limited _________ in the __________ musculature.
range of motion and laryngeal
What will a client with hypokinetic dysarthria present with? What will they sounds like? Think voice.
Typically, patients with hypokinetic dysarthria will present with weak or thin voices.
True or False: Medical management is not appropriate for hypokinetic dysarthria.
False. Medical management can be appropriate.
Regulates muscle tone. Maintains normal posture. Regulates movements associated with goal directed behavior and new motor learning. Helps maintain muscle balance so that fine, graded speech movements can occur.
What is Akinesia?
Delay in the initiation of movements.
The harsh or breathy vocal quality of hypokinetic dysarthria is caused by ________ during phonation.
incomplete vocal fold closure