BASLP 6th Semester Notes » Paper 1: Motor Speech Disorders in Adults
Unit 1: Causes & Characteristics of Dysarthria
- Definition, etiology and classification of acquired dysarthria
- General, speech and feeding related characteristics of acquired dysarthria with and without genetic underpinnings
- Vascular lesions: dysarthria following stroke/CVA, cranial and peripheral nerve palsies
- Infectious condition of the nervous system: dysarthria following meningitis, encephalitis, polyneuritis, poliomyelitis, neurosyphilis.
- Traumatic lesions: Dysarthria following TBI
- Toxic conditions of the nervous system: Dysarthria following exogenic and endogenic toxic conditions of the nervous system.
- Anoxia of the nervous system: Dysarthria following anoxic conditions
- Metabolic disorders affecting nervous system: Dysarthria following metabolic conditions that affect the nervous system, Wilson’s disease etc.
- Idiopathic causes: Dysarthria following idiopathic causes
- Neoplastic lesions of nervous system: Dysarthria following neoplastic lesions in the nervous system
- Demyelinating and degenerative conditions: Huntington’s Chorea, Parkinson’s, Multiple Sclerosis, Motor Neuron Diseases
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