BASLP 6th Semester Notes  » Paper 1: Motor Speech Disorders in Adults

Unit 2: Assessment and Diagnosis of Dysarthria

• Subjective assessment of dysarthria:
  • Assessment of respiratory, phonatory, resonatory, articulatory errors
  • Assessment of prosodic features
  • Assessment of speech intelligibility
  • Scales, protocols and tests used for subjective assessment of dysarthria
• Instrumental analysis of speech in dysarthria: Acoustic, kinematic and physiological
• Advantages and disadvantages of subjective and instrumental procedures in the assessment of dysarthria in adults
  • Differential diagnosis of acquired motor speech disorders in adults:
  • Dysarthria and verbal apraxia
  • Dysarthria and functional articulation disorders
  • Dysarthria and aphasia
  • Apraxia of speech and aphasia
  • Dysarthria from other allied disorders such as agnosiaAgnosia Inability to recognize stimuli in a sensory modality in spite of intact sensation in the modality. Several varieties of agnosia have been described in the literature, including auditory agnosia, visual agnosia, tactile agnosia, and combinations such as auditory-verbal agnosia and visual-verbal agnosia. Reference: Introduction to Neurogenic Communication Disorders (Eighth Edition) - Robert H. Brookshire [Book Pg. No. 450] More, alexia, agraphia etc.
  • Apraxia from other allied disorders such as agnosiaAgnosia Inability to recognize stimuli in a sensory modality in spite of intact sensation in the modality. Several varieties of agnosia have been described in the literature, including auditory agnosia, visual agnosia, tactile agnosia, and combinations such as auditory-verbal agnosia and visual-verbal agnosia. Reference: Introduction to Neurogenic Communication Disorders (Eighth Edition) - Robert H. Brookshire [Book Pg. No. 450] More, alexia, agraphia etc.
  • Assessment of feeding, swallowing and related issues in persons with dysarthria