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Motor speech disorders are a class of speech disorder that disturb the body's natural ability to speak. These disturbances vary in their etiology based on the integrity and integration of cognitive, neuromuscular, and musculoskeletal activities. Speaking is an act dependent on thought and timed execution of airflow and oral motor / oral placement of the lips, tongue, and jaw that can be disrupted by weakness in oral musculature (dysarthria) or an inability to execute the motor movements needed for specific speech sound production (apraxia). Such deficits can be related to pathology of the nervous system (central and /or peripheral systems involved in motor planning) that affect the timing of respiration, phonation, prosody, and articulation in isolation or in conjunction.
Dysarthria
Main article: DysarthriaDysarthria is the reduced ability to motor plan volitional movements needed for speech production as the result of weakness/paresis and/or paralysis of the musculature of the oral mechanism needed for respiration, phonation, resonance, articulation, and or prosody.
Apraxia
Main article: Apraxia of speechApraxia is the inability to motor plan volitional movement for speech production in the absence of muscular weakness.
Symptoms and signs: Speech and voice / Symptoms involving head and neck (R47–R49, 784) Aphasia/Dysphasia Other speech disturbances Symbolic dysfunctions Dyslexia/Alexia · Agnosia (Prosopagnosia, Astereognosis, Gerstmann syndrome) · Dyspraxia/Apraxia (Ideomotor apraxia) · Dyscalculia/Acalculia · AgraphiaVoice disturbances Other Categories:- Disability
- Neurological disorders
- Communication disorders
- Symptoms and signs: Speech and voice
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