Dysarthria [Neurosurgery Wiki]

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====== Dysarthria ======


[[Dysarthria]] (from Ancient Greek δυσ- dys, "hard, difficult, bad" and ἄρθρωσις arthrosis, "articulation") is a motor [[speech disorder]] resulting from neurological [[injury]] of the [[motor]] component of the motor-speech system and is characterized by poor articulation of phonemes (cf. [[aphasia]]: a disorder of the content of language).

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 words. It is unrelated to any problem with understanding [[cognitive]] [[language]].

Any of the speech subsystems (respiration, phonation, resonance, prosody, and articulation) can be affected, leading to impairments in intelligibility, audibility, naturalness, and efficiency of vocal communication.
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