Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder resulting from neurolgoical injury which affects the precision of your articulation. In other words, your speech and sounds can sound distorted and often slurred.  As part of your treatment, speech subsystems such as respiration, phonation, prosody, resonance and articulation will be targeted to improve the intelligibility and ‘naturalness’ of your speech. We will consider what the perceptual, speech and voice characterises are during assessment and what potential medical diagnosis is suggested by these characteristics.  Changes in speech can help localise changes in the nervous system. There are seven different types of Dysarthria.
Acquired Apraxia of Speech (AOS):
Acquired apraxia of speech (AOS) is a motor-speech disorder that results in the messages from the brain to the mouth being disrupted. A person may not be able to move his or her lips or tongue in the correct manner to make the correct letter and speech sounds. This can distort word sounds and on some occasions make initiating the correct motor speech pattern incredibly challenging. Acquired Apraxia of Speech is different to that of developmental or paediatric Apraxia of Speech. 
There are many syndromes that can result in a clinical diagnosis of a motor speech disorder – some overlap with Aphasia [click here].
Causes of a motor speech disorder can include: 
⦁    Stroke 
⦁    Head Injury and Neurosurgery
⦁    Parkinson’s Disease
⦁    Motor Neurones Disease
⦁    Multiple Sclerosis
⦁    Cerebral Palsy
What to expect….
You will receive a thorough assessment which will encompass your medical history and will identify the likely cause of your motor speech disorder and may include potential differential diagnoses. The treatment you receive will be a combination of your needs and goals, coupled with the most update clinical practice. At Adult Speech and Swallow Clinic, there is a strict policy of ‘no one treatment fixes all’. We pride ourself on providing bespoke, evidenced based clinical care. The emphasis is always on the client and mutual understanding.