Dysarthria

Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) CAS is a pediatric neurological speech sound disorder. This disorder impairs the precision and consistency of the movements that underlie speech. However neuromuscular deficits are absent. It may be the result of a known neurological impairment, and include complex neurobehavioral disorders with known or unknown origins. It may also occur as an idiopathic neurogenic speech sound disorder. The main impairment in planning and/or programming spatiotemporal…

the inability to perform rapid alternating movements (adiadochokinesia), 4) movement tremors (intention tremor), 5) staggering, wide based walking (ataxic gait), 6) tendency toward falling, 7) weak muscles (hypotonia), 8) slurred speech (ataxic dysarthria), and 9) abnormal eye movements (nystagmus).…

polyglutamines into the mutant protein, which induces loss of neurons within the cerebellum, retina, and brainstem. This neuronal death leads to diverse clinical manifestations, which include progressive gait ataxia, pigmental macular dystrophy, dysmetria, dysarthria, dysdiadochokinesia, sensory loss, hyperreflexia, and postural tremor (). Despite recent advances in the study of the disease, there is no specific medication available to date that can slow or halt the progression of motor…

Clinic, frontotemporal dementia is progressive nerve loss in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. Language is effected in people with frontotemporal dementia (Staff, 2016). Common language disorders seen in those with CTE are dysarthria and dysphasia. Dysarthria is the difficult or unclean articulation of speech that would normally be otherwise normal and dysphasia is a disorder that affects one’s ability to communicate. Frontotemporal dementia and CTE also affects a person’s…

Communication lies in the heart of every relationship. It imparts a way to connect, share our ideas, understand, and empathize with others. From the beginning of time, using speech and understanding language are the ways that human developed communication with one another. We come into the world longing to communicate with others; our first language is that of crying, eye gaze, and bodily movements. When there are disruptions to the development of or the usage of speech or language,…

this procedure. Her neurological deficits were stable and persisted for 5 days at which time she gradually recovered her extraoccular movements and speech. Approximately 12 days after admission, she had returned to near baseline with only mild dysarthria and was transferred to the hematology and oncology service for further…

activity and at the end of the day. • Patients typically have ocular symptoms such as double vision (diplopia) and ptosis (droopy eyelid). They also frequently develop bulbar symptoms such as trouble swallowing (dysphagia) and slurred speech (dysarthria). • Involvement of the respiratory symptom is one of the condition’s most dreaded complications as it can lead to respiratory failure and death – “myasthenia crisis.” • The bedside ice pack test supports the diagnosis. Sometimes your…

Aphasia impairs a person’s ability to hear, speak, read, and write. Those diagnosed with aphasia may also experience swallowing problems, dysarthria (difficulty to articulate speech), or apraxia (inability to perform actions needed to produce speech based on brain damage). The most common cause of aphasia is stroke, but any damage done to the left hemisphere including brain tumors, traumatic…

A Book Review of Where is the Mango Princess and the Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury Where is the Mango Princess is a tragic, heart wrenching, and deeply personal account of how traumatic brain injury affected the life of, author, Cathy Crimmins (2000) and the lives of her entire family. Crimmins wrote this account in order to share her experience of living and caring for a person with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and to help those in the same position as her to cope with the myriad of…

blocks from Robert’s house and visit during weekend to play poker and have dinner. He also has a daughter that lives three hours from him. His daughter visits him every three months. Robert was having dinner with a friend when he developed suddenly dysarthria and left hemiparesis involving face, arm and leg with onset of difficulty in speaking, with drooling from the right side of his mouth, and weakness in his right hand. His symptoms progress over the next ten minutes until he couldn’t lift…