Exam 1 Part 7

Question 1

Impairment of the motor speech programming with little or no weakness, paralysis, or incoordination of the speech musculature; affects articulation with secondary prosodic variations

Answer 1

Apraxia

Question 2

What speech sound errors are common in children with apraxia?

Answer 2

Distorted sound substitutions and additions

Question 3

What are the symptoms of apraxia?

Answer 3

Groping, difficulty on volitional tasks and automatic ones, difficulty with multisyllabic words, decreased phonemic accuracy with increased rate, abnormal stress, inconsistent errors on vowels and consonants

Question 4

What are some differences between dysarthria and apraxia?

Answer 4

In apraxia, less consistent in errors, fewer errors and increased intelligibility by reading fast, better at spontaneous speech than reading

Question 5

What are the controversial causes of CAS?

Answer 5

Usually don’t know neurological damage that caused it; could be co-morbid with a known neurological condition (cerebral palsy) or neurobehavioral disorder (fragile X syndrome)

Question 6

Stress on the 1st syllable

Answer 6

Trochee

Question 7

Stress on the 2nd syllable

Answer 7

Iambs

Question 8

Stress is even throughout the word

Answer 8

Spondees

Question 9

What conditions can be co-morbid with speech sound disorders?

Answer 9

Language, fluency, voice, and emotional/psychiatric disorders