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n. - Impaired articulatory ability resulting from defects in the peripheral motor nerves or in the speech musculature.

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  • Aphasia may co-occur with speech disorders such as dysarthria or apraxia of speech, which also result from brain damage.
  • Using a UQ-built telerehabilitation device, the study assessed 86 patients with various speech and language disorders, such as dysarthria, aphasia and apraxia of speech.
  • He illustrates this with a study about a “boy with congenital dysarthria, a disorder of the peripheral speech organs, who was never able to speak” Principles and...
  • He illustrates this with a study about a “boy with congenital dysarthria, a disorder of the peripheral speech organs, who was never able to speak” (Principles and...
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