In
this section are disorders of motor speech production. They
can be congenital (present from birth) or acquired
(resulting from stroke, head injury, or illness). The act of
producing understandable speech is very complex. The brain,
having decided what message it wishes to send, must then
send a series of signals to the speech muscles, telling them
what to do. The muscles must then act in a coordinated
fashion to produce the series of sounds intended. Many
things can go wrong along the way.
In
this section are disorders of motor speech production. They
can be congenital (present from birth) or acquired
(resulting from stroke, head injury, or illness). The act of
producing understandable speech is very complex. The brain,
having decided what message it wishes to send, must then
send a series of signals to the speech muscles, telling them
what to do. The muscles must then act in a coordinated
fashion to produce the series of sounds intended. Many
things can go wrong along the way.