A new study indicates that children with Down syndrome who have motor speech deficits have been inadequately diagnosed, which could have a major impact on the interventions used by speech pathologists ...

Rare and typically severe motor speech disorders such as childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) and dysarthria affect about 1 in 1000 children. The genetic basis of these speech disorders is ...

Apraxia is an effect of neurological conditions, such as dementia, stroke, and head trauma. It causes people to be unable to carry out various movements and gestures. For example, a person with ...

Dysarthria is a speech disorder caused by a lack of muscle control that happens when the parts of the brain that control speaking are damaged. It may also be caused by problems that do not involve the ...