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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] In other words, it is a condition in which problems effectively occur with the muscles that help produce speech, often making it very difficult to pronounce ...
Diplopia. Diplopia. Other names. Double vision. One way a person might experience double vision. Specialty. Neurology, ophthalmology. Diplopia is the simultaneous perception of two images of a single object that may be displaced horizontally or vertically in relation to each other. [ 1] Also called double vision, it is a loss of visual focus ...
A speech sound disorder ( SSD) is a speech disorder affecting the ability to pronounce speech sounds, which includes speech articulation disorders and phonemic disorders, the latter referring to some sounds ( phonemes) not being produced or used correctly. The term "protracted phonological development" is sometimes preferred when describing ...
Hypertropia is a condition of misalignment of the eyes ( strabismus ), whereby the visual axis of one eye is higher than the fellow fixating eye. Hypotropia is the similar condition, focus being on the eye with the visual axis lower than the fellow fixating eye. Dissociated vertical deviation is a special type of hypertropia leading to slow ...
On a recent Merv Griffin show, a twenty-three-year-old woman appeared to talk cheerfully about a hard-core adult movie she’d just directed. The only person with the urge to question her vocation ...
Diplegia is the most common cause of crippling in children, specifically in children with cerebral palsy. [ 2] Other causes may be due to injury of the spinal cord. There is no set course of progression for people with diplegia. Symptoms may get worse but the neurological part does not change.
As the program occurred on July 15, 17 and 19, Andrea brought out Shania Twain as one of the A-list singers performing his most well-known songs with him. Well, folks couldn't get over hearing the ...
Conduction aphasia. In neurology, conduction aphasia, also called associative aphasia, is an uncommon form of difficulty in speaking ( aphasia ). It is caused by damage to the parietal lobe of the brain. An acquired language disorder, it is characterised by intact auditory comprehension, coherent (yet paraphasic) speech production, but poor ...