SPE 691 MOTOR SPEECH TERMS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS!!
motor speech disorders - ANSWER -Disorders resulting from neurological impairment
-Impairs motor programming or motor execution
-Includes apraxia and dysarthrias
Motor programming - ANSWER programming the muscles to move the way they're
supposed to
Motor execution - ANSWER muscles are not strong enough to execute the movement
Dysarthria - ANSWER Umbrella term for issues with motor execution
-disturbance in muscular control due to paralysis, weakness, or incoordination
-Weakness, spasticity, incoordination, involuntary movement, or excessive, reduced, or
variable muscle tone
-due to damage in CNS and PNS
-Can affect any level of speech systems and mechanisms
Types of Dysarthria - ANSWER Different types of dysarthria are the result of lesions to
different areas
-flaccid, spastic, unilateral UMN, ataxic, hypokinetic, hyperkinetic, mixed
Apraxia - ANSWER Break down in CNS resulting in programming deficit
-programming sensorimotor commands for the positioning and movement of muscles
for the volitional production of speech
-deficit in ability to sequence the voluntary movements
-deficits are only in articulation and prosody
motor speech disorders - ANSWER -Disorders resulting from neurological impairment
-Impairs motor programming or motor execution
-Includes apraxia and dysarthrias
Motor programming - ANSWER programming the muscles to move the way they're
supposed to
Motor execution - ANSWER muscles are not strong enough to execute the movement
Dysarthria - ANSWER Umbrella term for issues with motor execution
-disturbance in muscular control due to paralysis, weakness, or incoordination
-Weakness, spasticity, incoordination, involuntary movement, or excessive, reduced, or
variable muscle tone
-due to damage in CNS and PNS
-Can affect any level of speech systems and mechanisms
Types of Dysarthria - ANSWER Different types of dysarthria are the result of lesions to
different areas
-flaccid, spastic, unilateral UMN, ataxic, hypokinetic, hyperkinetic, mixed
Apraxia - ANSWER Break down in CNS resulting in programming deficit
-programming sensorimotor commands for the positioning and movement of muscles
for the volitional production of speech
-deficit in ability to sequence the voluntary movements
-deficits are only in articulation and prosody
