The Big Kahuna Apr 5, 2021

The Be Clear Program is proven to be effective for progressive dysarthria

Which of the following is not included in Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT):

Dynamic assessment is so important because:

What characteristic is not typical of the profile of dysprosody for AOS?

Inspiratory checking is used to regulate the flow of air and lung volume loss during speech.

Medical intervention involves:

Rate modification techniques should not be used is intelligibility is not impaired.

Prolonged, continuous spasms are:

What are the 3 components of a physical exam?

Which neurotransmitters have been lost in people with Parkinson’s disease?

Which is not a type of treatment goal?

Agnosia is an inability to process sensory information

Duffy (2020): _______ may be the most powerful, behaviourally modifiable variable to increase speech intelligibility.

Which is not a result of delayed auditory feedback?

IMST and EMST are speech-based respiratory support techniques.

The order of presentation of stimuli can be …

Individuals with VPI may be candidates for a palatal lift.

_____ is the inner sense of restlessness, manifested by overt motor restlessness to relieve the sensation.

Use of gestural cues such as finger tapping to facilitate the execution of a speech movement sequence is a form of

Which one is not a condition of practice involved in motor learning?

Which of the following is NOT a result of damage to muscle tone?

If a patient is having specific trouble with articulating bilabial sounds, they likely have a lesion on the

What is NOT a component of assessing laryngeal function?

Nonfluent aphasia is often seen with apraxia of speech and unilateral upper motor neuron dysarthria.

Contrastive stress/intonation drills is a good therapy option for clients who have cognitive-linguistic deficits.

DAF results in all the following except:

Rick Astley is never gonna:

Non-speech movements/tasks can be used as a starting point for a group of related speech sounds.

A nasal obturator features a two-way valve mechanism.

Strength is a passive muscle property.

Contrastive stress/intonation drills are appropriate for very young children.

Treatment goals should NOT be based on:

Mental practice is more effective than no practice but is less effective than physical practice.

Activity-dependent muscle change work in conjunction with:

Which of the following is NOT a form of prosthetic management for rate reduction?

What condition does NOT present with chorea?

Which is NOT a speech task for improving respiratory support?

Breath support is easy to describe but hard to measure objectively.

Instrumental measures can give more information about the nature of a speech deficit than perceptual measures alone.

Wilson's disease involves the inability to filter out this excess metal.

What is not a component of the OPTIMAL Theory of Motor Learning?

Which of the following is not considered “word level”?

Which of the following is NOT a purpose of posture adjustment?

Which of the following impairments is characterized by: breathy, hoarse quality and reduced loudness?

Huntington’s disease is associated with which of the following dysarthrias?

Using singing to overcome a deficit function (shifting deficit function to a lower level within the system) is known as

Glen Nowell ran over a trumpet with a 10-ton Steam Roller.

Prosodic insufficiency is the characteristic feature of Hyperkinetic dysarthria.

Dysarthria Tx focuses on:

In which level of MIT would the client be speaking 3-4 syllabic phrases?

Which of the following is NOT an error likely to be seen in AOS?

The inability to recognize one’s own deficits is called:

Tremor is the most common involuntary movement.

Clients with hyperadduction impairments present with breathy voice and reduced loudness.

What is the most common phonetic error dimension in AOS?

With AOS you should target strength and ROM exercises.

To help with elicitation, people with AOS should look in a mirror.

Which is the following is not an advantage of a nasal obturator?

The best researched articulatory kinematic treatment procedure is Sound Production Treatment.

People with ALS typically experience which type of dysarthria?

The degree of postural adjustments depends on all of the following EXCEPT:

Which Dysarthria has the most variability and therefore is hardest to diagnose?

Rate modification improves efficiency and naturalness

Using a mirror while speaking can help individuals with AOS.

The inability to recognize faces despite sufficient sensory input is known as:

Which is an example of a static assessment?

What percentage of people with Parkinson’s Disease have speech/voice impairments?

Resting tremor, bradykinesia, hypokinesia and rigidity are motor control symptoms of which degenerative disease?

Working on less stimulable targets first may promote better generalization even if initial acquisition is harder.

Which statement is true about speech sound manners with AOS?

The bottom of the rest breathing cycle is known as the Resting Expiratory Level.

Inconsistent velopharyngeal closure could be a result of:

Which is not a way to achieve reduced rate?

This class is brilliant and is going to:

DAF requires the client to prolong syllables until the feedback 'catches up' to the speech production.

Which of these is not an activity in the LSVT treatment protocol?

Groping and silent posturing are characteristic of which motor speech disorder?

Treatment goals depend on the amount of co-existing aphasia and/or cognitive deficits.

Motor learning is the process of acquiring the capability for producing skilled actions.

Which organ is NOT a part of the Basal Ganglia?

Which of the following would be appropriate to target in therapy for AOS?

Sound Production Treatment (SPT) improves accuracy by a strong individual focus on the movement of the articulators.

The “optimal zone of learning” refers to tasks that:

Which condition of practice leads to improved outcomes over time?

Tone can be described as passive muscle property.

The effect of rate control may be higher in patients with severely decreased intelligibility.

What is not a general technique for articulatory kinematic treatments?

Which type of feedback has better long-term effects?

In AOS errors are more common in word initial position than word final position.

Articulation errors with dysarthria are typically consistent.