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Dysarthria treatment
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Spastic dysarthria treatment | Prosthetics for palatal lifting, reducing muscle tone, traditional articulation tasks |
| Flaccid dysarthria treatment | Strengthening Strategies that concentrate directly on increasing the intelligibility of a patient's speech |
| Hyperkinetic dysarthria treatment | Pharmacological, botox, sensory tricks, relaxation therapy, bite blocks, easy onset of phonation |
| Hypokinetic dysarthria treatment | Pharmacological, surgical, articulation, phonation, respiration, prosody |
| Ataxic dysarthria treatment | Controlling respiration for speech, increase articulation accuracy, developing optimal rate and intonation in connected speech |
| Unilateral UMN dysarthria treatment | Traditional artic tasks (intelligibility drills, phonetic placement, exaggerating consonants, minimal contrast drills), OMEs |
| Mixed dysarthria treatment | Identify most severely impaired errors and attempt to make the greatest impact on functional communication/intelligibility |