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  2. Dysarthria - Wikipedia

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    Dysarthria is a speech sound disorder resulting from neurological injury of the motor component of the motor–speech system [1] and is characterized by poor articulation of phonemes. [2] It is a condition in which problems effectively occur with the muscles that help produce speech, often making it very difficult to pronounce words.

  3. Music therapy for non-fluent aphasia - Wikipedia

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    Music therapy for non-fluent aphasia is a method for treating patients who have lost the ability to speak after a stroke or accident.Non-fluent aphasia, also called expressive aphasia, is a neurological disorder that deprives patients of the ability to express language.

  4. Ataxia - Wikipedia

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    Ataxia (from Greek α- [a negative prefix] + -τάξις [order] = "lack of order") is a neurological sign consisting of lack of voluntary coordination of muscle movements that can include gait abnormality, speech changes, and abnormalities in eye movements, that indicates dysfunction of parts of the nervous system that coordinate movement, such as the cerebellum.

  5. Speech and language impairment - Wikipedia

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    Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder that results from a neurological injury. Neurodegenerative conditions like Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and progressive supranuclear palsy frequently transpire in association with dysarthria. [6] Some stem from central damage, while other stem from peripheral nerve damage.

  6. Flaccid dysarthria - Wikipedia

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    Flaccid dysarthria is a motor speech disorder resulting from damage to peripheral nervous system (cranial or spinal nerves) or lower motor neuron system. Depending on which nerves are damaged, flaccid dysarthria affects respiration, phonation, resonance, and articulation. It also causes weakness, hypotonia (low-muscle tone), and diminished ...

  7. Speech disorder - Wikipedia

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    Dysarthria is a weakness or paralysis of speech muscles caused by damage to the nerves or brain. Dysarthria is often caused by strokes, Parkinson's disease, [9] ALS, head or neck injuries, surgical accident, or cerebral palsy. Aphasia; Dysprosody is an extremely rare neurological speech disorder. It is characterized by alterations in intensity ...

  8. Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 - Wikipedia

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    All exercises often start with simple movements and become progressively more difficult to emulate real world movements affected by the disorder. [ 58 ] Common recommendations for persons with dysphagia, or swallowing problems, include pureeing food, replacing difficult to eat foods in the diet, or changing posture during eating.

  9. Expressive aphasia - Wikipedia

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    [3] [7] Expressive aphasia differs from dysarthria, which is typified by a patient's inability to properly move the muscles of the tongue and mouth to produce speech. Expressive aphasia also differs from apraxia of speech , which is a motor disorder characterized by an inability to create and sequence motor plans for conscious speech.