Motor Speech Disorders Review

Flashcards to help review key concepts and terms related to motor speech disorders.

Chorea

Dance-like, uncontrollable movements of the limbs associated with Huntington's disease.

Motor Speech Disorders (MSDs)

Disorders involving the effective manufacture, refinement, transmission, and execution of motor plans for speech.

Apraxia

A neurological speech disorder characterized by the impaired capacity to plan or program sensorimotor commands needed for speech.

Dysarthria

A motor speech disorder resulting from the inability to control the muscles used in speech.

Supplementary Motor Cortex

Brain region that plans and programs motor speech output.

Press of Speech

Rapid and potentially disfluent speech often associated with subcortical diseases like Parkinson's.

Resonating Chambers

The oral and nasal cavities that modify the sound produced by the vocal folds.

Broca’s Area

Key area of the brain associated with speech production and language processing.

Effortful Speech

Speech characterized by effort and struggle, common in those with apraxic speech.

Groping Movements

Involuntary movements of articulators when attempting to produce speech, characteristic of apraxia.

Fluency Disorders

Disorders that affect the flow of speech but are not classified as motor speech disorders.