The Differences- Dysarthria and Apraxia

According to Dr. Andrew Morgan, chief of the section of child development at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine at Peoria, dysarthria and apraxia are usually two speech disorders that are commonly confused. While verbal apraxia deals with complications in the central nervous system processing, Dysarthria is a disorder that deals with problems in output. Many physicians usually get these two speech disorders mixed. Both are speech disorders that usually begin in children, however, children are often mislabeled with apraxia when they should actually be diagnosed with dysarthria and vice versa. Verbal apraxia is an impairment of a child's ability to plan and execute voluntary movements of speech. Within the brain, between the input of information and the output, something goes aloof, and the speech is not processed correctly, resulting in dysfunctional verbal output; regardless of meaningfulness. Children with verbal Apraxia do not have feeding or muscular dysfuction, as in dysarthria. Regardless, they do have problems with activities that exercise their brain's plan motor activities. Dysarthria is a step up from apraxia because while the brain has the ability to make motor movements in dysarthria, they are unable to carry them out in their speech. The pitch in their voice does fluctuate, but the order in which they say the words are correct; in apraxia, children often repeat sounds and gestures. Another difference that occurs is the substitution of constants (apraxia omits constants).
The early detection of Dysarthria is hearing impairment. The most effective way to control this early on is getting a hearing aid for children as early as 6 months.
I really enjoyed this article. throughout the world wide web, there was an array of information sites for dysarthria, however, there were really no articles on how this speech disorder compares or contrasts from other disorders. It also give a first hand look at how children are affected different by two similar but different speech disorders that usually get confused. Clearly, dysarthria is real, and it exists in more children than some. There should really be more research advocating for this speech disorder and the development of its treatments and regulation.

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