DYSARTHRIA

Childhood dysarthria__________ (is/ are) a motor speech disorder.

• Is

• Are

Physicians and Speech language pathologists (SLP) usually _________ ( find/ finds) diagnosing an infant or child with dysarthia extremely challenging.

• Find

• Finds

Dysarthria_____ ( happens/ happen) due to the damage of the muscles that control speech.

• Happen

• Happens

The severity of the signs and symptoms of childhood dysarthria ________ ( depend/ depends) on where the damage is in the nervous system

• Depends

• Depend

It is a motor speech disorder that generally happens due to the damage of the muscles that control speech.

• Symptom

• Dysarthria

The tests confirmed what type of _______ the patient was suffering from.

• Injury

• Nervous sytem

She suffered severe damage in her ____________ in the accident.

a. Brain b. Trauma

• Trauma

• Brain

________Some people with dysarthia not be able to move their mouth muscles at all.

• False

• True

________In cases of infant and childhood dysarthria, the baby may have developed the disorder due to a birth injury that resulted in brain trauma.

• False

• True

________Other symptoms of childhood dysarthria may include: making extremely loud sounds and/or extremely low sounds.

• False

• True