Question 1

For individuals who recover after acquiring apraxia of speech, which is the most common residual deficit?

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Prosodic abnormalities are the most common residual deficit in individuals who recover from apraxia of speech. This includes issues with the rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech, which can persist even after other aspects of speech have improved.

Question 2

How might acquiring dysarthria change an adult's life?

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Question 3

The following is noted in an oral peripheral mechanism evaluation:

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All of the options listed are components of an oral peripheral mechanism evaluation, which assesses the structural and functional aspects of the oral mechanism related to speech production.

Question 4

What is Huntington's chorea? Describe the speech and motor characteristics, as well as effects on mood and personality.

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Question 5

What are the speech characteristics of hyperkinetic dysarthria?

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Question 6

What are the purposes of the motor speech evaluation?

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Question 7

is an idiopathic degenerative neurological disease that results in hypokinetic dysarthria in 90% of cases.

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Parkinson disease is known for causing hypokinetic dysarthria in approximately 90% of cases due to its characteristic impact on motor control, including the muscles involved in speech.

Question 8

What speech tasks might be used for differential diagnosis of apraxia of speech?

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Question 9

is a congenital disorder that causes dysarthria in children. It causes abnormal muscle tone, loss of selective motor control, muscle weakness, and impaired balance.

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Cerebral palsy is a congenital disorder characterized by abnormal muscle tone, loss of selective motor control, muscle weakness, and impaired balance, which can lead to dysarthria in children.

Question 10

Which of the following are abnormal involuntary movements that may be seen in hyperkinetic dysarthria?

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All of the above options, Chorea, Tics, and Dystonia, are types of abnormal involuntary movements that can be observed in individuals with hyperkinetic dysarthria. Hyperkinetic dysarthria is a motor speech disorder characterized by involuntary movements affecting speech production.

Question 11

What are the speech and movement characteristics of hypokinetic dysarthria?

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Question 12

In , individuals have increased muscle tone, exaggerated stretch reflex, and motor movements may be jerky, stiff, labored, and slow.

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The symptoms described are characteristic of spastic cerebral palsy, which is the most common type of cerebral palsy. It is marked by increased muscle tone (hypertonia), leading to stiff and jerky movements.

Question 13

is a neurological speech disorder that generally occurs following damage to the left cerebral hemisphere, particularly motor and premotor areas. Speech is characterized by groping attempts to find the correct articulatory position, great variability over repeated attempts, sound substitutions, omissions, additions, and difficulty sequencing sounds in multisyllabic words.

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Apraxia of speech is a motor speech disorder where the brain has difficulty coordinating the muscle movements necessary to say sounds and words. This condition often results from damage to the left hemisphere of the brain, which is crucial for speech and language.

Question 14

In , individuals have slow, involuntary writhing. Movement is disorganized and uncoordinated, and speech and breathing problems can be significant.

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Athetoid cerebral palsy is characterized by slow, involuntary writhing movements. This form of cerebral palsy affects coordination and can lead to difficulties with speech and breathing due to the disorganized movement patterns.

Question 15

In , movement is uncoordinated and balance is disturbed.

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Ataxic cerebral palsy specifically affects balance and depth perception, leading to uncoordinated movements and a disturbed sense of balance.

Question 16

In , both upper and lower motor neurons degenerate, causing mixed flaccid and spastic dysarthria.

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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is characterized by the degeneration of both upper and lower motor neurons, leading to symptoms that can include mixed flaccid and spastic dysarthria.

Question 17

results in slow movements with reduced range of motion due to the effects of rigidity. The most common cause is a degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the brain stem, which prevents proper functioning of the basal ganglia.

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Hypokinetic dysarthria is characterized by slow movements and reduced range of motion due to rigidity, commonly caused by the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the brain stem affecting the basal ganglia, as seen in conditions like Parkinson's disease.

Question 18

What are options for education and employment for those with cerebral palsy?

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Question 19

is a category of dysarthria that is due to damage of the basal ganglia circuitry; the indirect pathway and/or structures of the basal ganglia that help to inhibit unwanted movements are damaged.

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Hyperkinetic dysarthria is associated with damage to the basal ganglia circuitry, particularly affecting the indirect pathway, leading to involuntary movements.

Question 20

What are the speech and motor characteristics of ataxic dysarthria?

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Quiz 10: Motor Speech Disorders