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What Are the Probable Symptoms and Causes of Dysarthria?
- 6:50, 12th September 2018
- Test Organization
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- Dysarthria
Dysarthria is the disorder where a person affected by it will have difficulty in speaking and framing comprehensible words and phrases. The muscles which are used for talking are weak and the person has no control over it. Hence, you tend to use incoherent words and speak in a very slow or slurry manner that gets difficult for others to understand.
When the face muscles, throat, or tongue muscles get paralyzed due to neurological disorders like brain injury, tumor or stroke, dysarthria appears in the person. In some cases, intake or treatment with wrong medications can lead to dysarthria.
The treatment of this disorder is directed at the improvement of the speech muscles. For a betterment of the underlying condition, you may have to undergo several sessions of speech therapy. This can be done when the damage is caused to the nervous system. Whereas in cases of wrong medication, discontinuing the affecting medicine can make way for improvement.
Signs of Dysarthria
Varying on the level of the disorder, the potential symptoms of the dysarthria are:
# Slurred and slow speech
# Inability to scream or speak in volume more than a whisper
# Difficulty in understanding when spoken too fast
# A distinguished nasal, strained or raspy voice
# Uneven speech rhythm and volume
# Problem in the movement of the facial muscles and the tongue
Causes of Dysarthria
If you experience sudden changes in your speaking ability, immediately call for medical attention. The potential causes of the disorder are:
# Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig’s disease
# Huntington’s disease
# Lyme disease
# Brain injury or tumor
# Guillain-Barre syndrome
# Cerebral palsy
# Muscular dystrophy
# Multiple sclerosis
# Myasthenia gravis
# Parkinson’s disease
# Wilson’s disease
Many people also lapse into depression due to social difficulty because of dysarthria. Get help from the professionals of Curedit to improve your condition.
