Clinical dysarthria test scores on lip function and tongue function were compared for 77 dysarthric as well as non-dysarthric subjects with multiple sclerosis (MS) and 15 control subjects. Results show that tongue function was significantly more severely affected than lip function in individuals with MS. Furthermore, tongue function, but not lip function, was significantly more severely affecte...

Three male Caucasian patients with ALS were admitted to the hospital due to progressive dysphagia and dysarthria. During two 21-day courses of penicillin G and hydrocortisone, these patients' dysphagia and dysarthria resolved. The patient's other ALS-associated symptoms also improved, including respiratory function, coordination, walking, and muscle strength. This is the first report of a treat...

Metronidazole is a well-known antimicrobial agent, used for the treatment of anaerobic bacterial and protozoal infections. It generally well tolerated with common side effects like nausea, dizziness, headache metallic taste in mouth. But prolonged use metronidazole can cause neurotoxicity ataxic gait, dysarthria, seizures encephalopathy. Here, we are reporting case 60 years old male patient who...

Dysarthria is a speech disorder that mostly occurs as a symptom of neurodegenerative and other neuromuscular diseases. The speech of patients with dysarthria becomes distorted, the articulation of phonemes (especially that of consonants) is poor, the intelligibility and naturalness are impaired. Because dysarthria is progressive (similarly to the other symptoms of the main disease), patients ma...

Acoustic analysis was conducted to investigate symptomatic differences in decreased oral alternating motion rates (AMRs) between individuals with spastic and with ataxic dysarthria. The subjects were 6 individuals with spastic dysarthria, 6 with ataxic dysarthria and 6 normal speakers. Monosyllables /pa/ and /ta/ were used to examine alternating motions of the lips and tongue, respectively. In ...

The term “aphemia” is now used to describe a motor disorder that affects speech production but leaves the comprehension of spoken and written language intact. Aphemia is a specific form of mutism. Aphemia was formerly referred to as phonetic disintegration, pure anarthria, apraxic dysarthria, cortical dysarthria, verbal apraxia, subcortical motor aphasia, pure motor aphasia, small or mini Broca...

The study reported in this paper investigated the abilities of Greek speakers with dysarthria to signal lexical stress at the single word level. Three speakers with dysarthria and two unimpaired control participants were recorded completing a repetition task of a list of words consisting of minimal pairs of Greek disyllabic words contrasted by lexical stress location only. Fourteen listeners we...

The speech of four speakers with varying degrees of dysarthria was studied, using spectrographic methods. Some interesting results were obtained, including incomplete realizations of consonants and consonant clusters and long voiceless portions of vowels.

This study described preliminary work with the Supplemented Speech Recognition (SSR) system for speakers with dysarthria. SSR incorporated automatic speech recognition optimized for dysarthric speech, alphabet supplementation, and word prediction. Participants included seven individuals with a range of dysarthria severity. Keystroke savings using SSR averaged 68.2% for typical sentences and 67....

A 31-year-old man presented with a 3-month history of progressive dysarthria and 1 month of gradually worsening motor seizures predominantly affecting the right face. Examination was unremarkable except for a mild spastic dysarthria and slow, alternating tongue movements, probably due to a partial opercular syndrome. Seizures captured during EEG recording showed a jacksonian march starting over...