What is dysarthria.

Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder caused by weakness or difficulty controlling the muscles used for speech. It is not a language disorder, so people with dysarthria typically know what they want to say; the difficulty is in the physical production of speech. A'ber is a speech practice companion; it offers practice exercises and does not identify dysarthria type or how severe it is.

Detailed content for this article is in preparation. Coverage will include the six clinical types of dysarthria, the most common causes, how speech-language pathologists assess speech, and what care from a speech-language pathologist looks like.