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What would be your therapeutic approach for this patient (restore/compensate/adjust)? Justify your response, making reference to their symptoms, their speech and neurological diagnosis, and likely prognosis.

Irregular articulatory breakdowns  Description:

Describe, using perceptual characteristics, the ARTICULATION and RATE of this patient’s DDK tasks (1:00 – 1:30). 

Section 2: Matching (confirmatory signs) You will fill out the answers for this section in Section 2 of the paper component of the exam.  Indicate which MSD(s) is/are associated with each confirmatory sign (can be more than one MSD).  2 points per confirmatory sign. Note: the checkbox below is just so you can indicate to Canvas that you are done with this question. 

What bone(s) is considered the antebrachium?

Shuffling gait – Huntington’s disease

Which of the two video files below do you think most likely corresponds to this patient? Explain your answer, using specific observations about each person. Video 1:    Video 2:

Etiologies and confirmatory signs For each of the following confirmatory sign – neurological disorder pairs, state: Whether you would expect to see that confirmatory sign accompanying that disorder (2 points), and Why/why not. You must justify your response by talking about what neural structure(s) the disorder can affect, and how the symptom would be generated by damage to that/those structure(s). (8 points)  

Describe differences in perceptual characteristics relating to PHONATION, ARTICULATION, and RESPIRATION that you observe between the third repetition of the grandfather passage (2:09 – 3:03) and the fourth repetition of the grandfather passage (5:57 – 6:50). Refer to specific sounds or words for your observations. 

What information do you gain from the oral mechanism/physical exam (1:31 – 2:40)? Give at least two pieces of information that would help you towards a diagnosis.