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Flaccid Dysarthria
Damage: lower motor neuron of cranial or spinal nerves
Cranial Nerves involved: V, VII, X, XII
Characteristics (voice): hoarse, monopitch, monoloudness, breathy voice
-audible inspiration
-short phrases
-hypernasal, nasal emission
-rapid and progressive weakness with use; recovery with rest
Spastic Dysarthria
Damage: bilateral damage to upper motor neurons
Area(s) of Lesion: cortical areas, basal ganglia, pons, medulla, intenal capsule

Characteristics:(voice)monopitch , monoloudness harshness, strained-strangled voice quality, resonance disorders (hypernasality), pitch breaks
-Increase muscle tone
-Bilateral facial weakness
Hypokinetic Dysarthria
Damage: Basal ganglia
Characteristics: short rushes of speech, inappropriate silent intervals, increased rate in segments and short phrases
-Masklike face, tremors in resting facial (diminishes when movements are voluntary)
-Decreased swallowing, drooling
Hyperkinetic Dysarthria
Damage: Basal ganglia
Characteristics: forced and sudden inspiration or expiration
voice tremors, inconsistent articulation problems: impercise consonants, distorted vowels
-Facial tics, chorea, severe contracting spams, dystonia
Ataxic Dysarthroa
Damage: Cerebellar System
Characteristics: uncordinated jerky inaccurate slow imprecise and halting movements
-Irregullary articulatory breakdowns and vowel diistortions
-Hypotonia, gait disturbances
speech quality compared to druken speech
Mixed Dysarthria Flaccid-Spastic
(ALS)-- imprecise production of consonants, vowel distortions, hypernasal, monopitch, monoloudnes, strained, strangled voiced quality, audible inspiration, inappropriate silences, nasal emission
Unilateral Upper Motor Neuron Dysarthria
Damage: Upper motor neurons
Characteristics: irregular articulatory breakdowns , harsh reduced loudness, increased rate in segments, excess and equal stress

-Unilateral lower face weakness, unilateral tongue weakness
-Hemiplegia/hemiparesis
Mixed Dysarthria Ataxic-Spastic
(MS)-- impaired loudness control, harsh voice quality, imprecise articulation, inappropriate pitch levels, sudden articu;atory breakdowns