Dysarthria Talks

This is a woman who has Dysarthria. She attempts to explain how Dysarthria results from neurological damage, and not from the muscle tension she has. She has a hard time speaking, and this video really touches you once you see how people struggle with this speech disorder.


One of the biggest symptoms of Dysarthria is the difference in the range of voice due to muscle tension and neurological damage to parts to central nervous system. Steven Bloch and Ray Wilkinson have studied the brain and its the pathological effects in relation to Dysarthria. In October 2009, they decided to explore how daily speech deviates from normative range. Their first aim was to find out how Dysarthria turn-to-talk could be problematic in daily conversation for patients with Dysarthria. Most patients with this disease are note able to get out many of their thoughts through speech and their words often come out as babble or not at all. Bloch Wilkinson hope to examine the daily difficulties that patients go through with phonetic hardships. They used video of natural conversation of people with Dysarthria over a period of three month intervals. After the two scientists gathered all of the evidence from the study, they realized that not only do Dysarthria patients have strong problems with phonetics and intelligibility, but also have problems understanding what the actually problem is when doing talk turn.
In summation, Dysathria patients have a great difficulty speaking phonetics and getting talk turn with normal and daily conversation. After careful examination, scientists are still running tests and believe that there is great possibility of clinical assessment and intervention.

Steven Bloch
Ray Wilkinson
Research Department of Language and Communication, University College London, London, UK
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders; Sep/Oct2009, Vol. 44 Issue 5, p769-783, 15p, 4 Charts

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