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Speech disorders affect roughly 11.5% of the US population, and 5% of the primary school population. [5] Speech is a complex process that requires precise timing, nerve and muscle control, and as a result is susceptible to impairments. A person who has a stroke, an accident or birth defect may have speech and language problems. [6]
Motor speech disorders are a class of speech disorders that disturb the body's natural ability to speak due to neurologic impairments. These neurologic impairments make it difficult for individuals with motor speech disorders to plan, program, control, coordinate, and execute speech productions. [ 1 ]
Cherney LR, Gardner P, Logemann JA, et al. (2010). "The role of speech-language pathology and audiology in the optimal management of the service member returning from Iraq or Afghanistan with a blast-related head injury: position of the Communication Sciences and Disorders Clinical Trials Research Group". J Head Trauma Rehabil. 25 (3): 219– 24.
Cholera continues to affect an estimated 3–5 million people worldwide and causes 28,800–130,000 deaths a year. [2] [7] To date, seven cholera pandemics have occurred, with the most recent beginning in 1961, and continuing today. [13] The illness is rare in high-income countries, and affects children most severely.
The signs and symptoms of frontal lobe disorder can be indicated by dysexecutive syndrome [7] which consists of a number of symptoms which tend to occur together. [8] Broadly speaking, these symptoms fall into three main categories; cognitive (movement and speech), emotional or behavioral.
The health secretary has said some patients' experience of the NHS this winter makes him feel "ashamed". Wes Streeting said he had seen patients left crying and distressed and stuck in corridors ...
Cholera infections are most commonly acquired from drinking water in which V. cholerae is found naturally or into which it has been introduced from the feces of an infected person. Cholera is most likely to be found and spread in places with inadequate water treatment, poor sanitation, and inadequate hygiene.
PORT LOUIS, Mauritius ― Norwegian Cruise Line's Norwegian Dawn arrived in Port Louis Monday after being quarantined off the coast of Mauritius with a reported stomach illness onboard.