Brain Injury
Rehabilitation Unit Liverpool Hospital
Brain Injury
Rehabilitation Directorate (BIRD) NSW Agency for
Clinical Innovation
2.4b
Types of communication problems b)
Dysarthria
Dysarthria
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of a client
brainstorm what
types of communication difficulties the person has
read the clinical
description of the disorder
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David has dysarthria.
This is a speech disorder caused by a disturbance of control of the
muscles that produce speech sounds. It does not necessarily mean
the
person has an impairment to the areas that control understanding and
expressing language, but rather, means that they are unable to move
the face and mouth muscles required to produce the sounds for speech.