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| Most prevalent areas of tx for spastic dysarthria |
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- phonation
- articulation
- prosody
- resonance |
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- relaxation
- easy onset
- NO pushing/pulling (create vocal pathologies) |
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- stretching tasks
- traditional articulation tasks |
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| Goal of stretching exercises |
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Definition
| to reduce hypertonicity in the tongue, lips, and cheeks |
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| goal for easy onset of phonation |
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Definition
| to improve vocal quality via softer glotta closures |
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| goal for yawn-sigh technique |
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Definition
| to facilitate relaxation of the neck muscles |
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- pitch range exercises
- intonation profiles (low and hight pitch changes in sentences)
- contrastive stress drills
- chunking (retrain natural pausing) |
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- surgical and prosthetic treatments
- exercise-based treatments |
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