SPE 691 MOTOR SPEECH TERMS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS!!

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