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Easy-onset:  Make softer glottal closures during phonation- sigh, prolong   “ah”, and then, shape to sound, words, etc.   This treatment task is used with patients who demonstrate

The ______________ sulcus separates temporal and frontal lobe. It is the most prominent.        

Who distinguished between resting tremors and tremors with motion and wrote the findings in: An Essay on the Shaking Palsy (1817)

Damage to the upper motor neurons may result in the following characteristics:

In the spine, there are  _______ cervical vertebrae.

The following dysarthria is caused by bilateral damage to the upper motor neuron, specifically to both the pyramidal and extrapyramidal neural muscles that serve the speech mechanism.

How can it be determined whether the poor breath support demonstrated by the patient with flaccid dysarthria is the result of weak respiration or poor laryngeal valving? 4 points

When addressing motor speech disorders, the clinician must address deficiencies in a hierarchy order. Which depicts the order that intervention should occur?

With Flaccid Dysarthria the weakness is noted only on the lower left quadrant of the face. True/ False

Unilateral mandibular branch lesions can cause the jaw to deviate to the weak side if the following cranial nerve is damaged.