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Oral motor strengthening exercises |
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- visual feedback with mirror - do exercises as well - discuss anatomy and how weakness occurred - explain how the exercises help - encourage carryover - increase reps |
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- initial steps focus on open and closing - ultimate goal to strengthen closure using resistance wedge, bite blocks, or hands on resistance |
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- independent/imitation exercises - resistance (button and string, facial flex) |
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- tongue tip - mid-tongue - back or posterior tongue - lateral sides of tongue |
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treatment for respiratory weakness |
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- to increase and control exhaled air - strengthen and coordinate the muscles - postural adjustments |
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- pushing and pulling exercises - holding breath - hard glottal attack - head turning/vocal cord strengthening |
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- velar strengthening exercises - tongue strengthening and coordinatino - modification of speech (increased loudness, reduced rate, more open position) - surgical and prosthetics - educate client to listen/differentiate for hypernasality - discuss velum and velopharyngeal closure -use visual techniques to see and measure nasal emission (nasometer, mirror, see-scape) |
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Velopharyngeal exercises to improve closure |
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-blowing -oral plosives -alternating oral and nasal consonants - use phrases that avoid nasal sounds |
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- increase loudness - reduce rate of speech (tapping, clapping) - Open mouth during speech (exaggerated jaw movements) |
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Surgical and Prosthetics Treatments |
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- Pharyngeal flap - teflon injection into pharynx -palatal lift |
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Traditional Articulation Treatment |
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- intelligibility drills - phonetic placement - exaggerating consonants - minimal contrast drills |
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- pitch range exercises (questions) - Intonation profiles (using lines to show change of pitch in drills) - Contrastive stress drills (use stress to convey meaning) - Chunking utterances into syntactic units (breathing on natural pauses) |
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