What is slurring words a symptom of?

Overview. Dysarthria occurs when the muscles you use for speech are weak or you have difficulty controlling them. Dysarthria often causes slurred or slow speech that can be difficult to understand.

What does anarthria mean?

Anarthria is speechlessness due to a severe loss of neuromuscular control over the speech musculature (Duffy, 2005). The term typically refers to the most severe form of dysarthria. Language and cognition of the anarthric patient may be intact but their disordered neuromuscular system prevents speech.

How does MS affect your voice?

One pattern that is commonly associated with MS is scanning speech. Scanning dysarthria produces speech in which the normal “melody” or speech pattern is disrupted, with abnormally long pauses between words or individual syllables of words. People with MS may also slur words.

Can you be born with anarthria?

Causes. Dysarthria and the more severe form, anarthria, are caused by brain damage. They can be caused by conditions that are present at birth, such as cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy.

Does MS affect your throat?

MS may affect swallowing in a number of ways by causing difficulty managing solids or liquids, frequent throat clearing during eating or drinking, a feeling that food is stuck in the throat, or coughing or a choking sensation when eating or drinking.

Does MS affect breathing?

MS can impact the muscles that affect your breathing. So breathing problems with MS usually happen when those muscles lose strength and endurance. There can be other causes, though, and some of them need treatment right away.

Do I have anomic aphasia test?

To diagnose you with anomic aphasia, your doctor may send you to receive a series of verbal and brain imaging tests. These tests can eliminate any other disorders that may be causing your symptoms. You may also need to see a speech-language pathologist for a proper diagnosis.

Why am I struggling to get my words out?

People with expressive aphasia may have some of the following signs and symptoms: slow and halting speech – with difficulty constructing a sentence. struggling to get certain words out – such as the names of objects, places or people. only using basic nouns and verbs – for example, “want drink” or “go town today”