Speech sounds, language, literacy, social communication, voice, fluency, cognitive
communication, feeding, and swallowing
What neurological disorders do SLPs help with speech sounds?
Dysarthria and apraxia
What neurological disorders do SLPs help with language and literacy?
Aphasia
What neurological disorders do SLPs help with social communication?
Pragmatics
What neurological disorders do SLPs help with voice?
Dysarthria, and vocal fold paralysis
What neurological disorders do SLPs help with fluency?
Neurogenic stuttering
What neurological disorders do SLPs help with cognitive communication?
Memory and attention
What neurological disorders do SLPs help with feeding and swallowing?
Dysphagia
, What is dysarthria?
A speech disorder that arises from paralysis, muscular weakness, and dyscoordination
of speech musculature
What are the different types of dysarthria?
Flaccid, spastic, ataxic, hyperkinetic, hypokinetic, or mixed
What is apraxia of speech?
A deficit in motor planning
What is verbal apraxia?
Problem initiation speech
What is oral apraxia?
Problem performing nonspeech oral gestures
What are the symptoms of apraxia?
Effortful articulation with facial grimacing, consonant errors more than vowels,
inconsistent errors (substitutions, additions, repetitions, and prolongations), errors are
close approximations to the target, and patients recognize errors
What is aphasia?
The inability to retrieve words and rules of language for communication. An impairment
in comprehension formulation and/or expression of language that affected speaking,
reading, writing, and listening
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