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Dysarthria treatment
Question | Answer |
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Spastic dysarthria treatment | Prosthetics for palatal lifting, reducing muscle tone, traditional articulation tasks |
Flaccid dysarthria treatment | Strengthening Strategies that concentrate directly on increasing the intelligibility of a patient's speech |
Hyperkinetic dysarthria treatment | Pharmacological, botox, sensory tricks, relaxation therapy, bite blocks, easy onset of phonation |
Hypokinetic dysarthria treatment | Pharmacological, surgical, articulation, phonation, respiration, prosody |
Ataxic dysarthria treatment | Controlling respiration for speech, increase articulation accuracy, developing optimal rate and intonation in connected speech |
Unilateral UMN dysarthria treatment | Traditional artic tasks (intelligibility drills, phonetic placement, exaggerating consonants, minimal contrast drills), OMEs |
Mixed dysarthria treatment | Identify most severely impaired errors and attempt to make the greatest impact on functional communication/intelligibility |