Concomitant Disorders

Question 1

Hemiplegia

Answer 1

Half the body is paralyzed

Question 2

Hemiparesis

Answer 2

Half of your body is weak

Contralateral to lesion

Affects written language

Question 3

Hyperreflexia (the reflex is overactive)

Answer 3

Extrapyramidal impulses of reflex regulation unable to reach the brainstem and spinal cord

Damage to the motor areas of the brain that produces apraxia of speech

Question 4

Dysarthria

Answer 4

A lesion at or near motor areas of the left frontal love that produces apraxia of speech is also likely to damage or in isolation

Question 5

Buccofacial apraxia/Ideomotor apraxia

Answer 5

Other apraxias such as these can occur alongside apraxia of speech or in isolation

Question 6

Nonfluent aphasia

Answer 6

apraxia of speech is a result of lesion at or near Broca’s area and there may be language deficits