October 20, 2013Dysarthria is the term for slurred speech and it often happens following a traumatic brain injury, stroke, aphasia, or neurological disease.
Dysarthric speech sounds as if a person just drank a considerable amount of alcohol. Most of us have had the opportunity of being somewhere when a person we knew had way too much to drink. Their speech was slurred, and indistinct. Following brain injury or insult the motor speech mechanism can be greatly affected and cause slurred speech. Many have great difficulty understanding people with dysarthric speech.
The speech languaage pathologist or caregiver must show the person with dysarthria a different way of speaking. It will often be a way that is slower, with a greater length of pausing between each spoken word. The speech language pathologist or caregiver must learn to model the new way of speaking. This can then be done all day long at home within daily interaction using The Teaching of Talking Method.Contact me if you would like to find out more about The Teaching of Talking Approach to Dysarthria. This is a method that teaches you how to ask questions that will immediately trigger one, two, three words or more in phrases or sentences that are slow enough to be understood by listeners.
The Teaching of Talking is available on our website at http://teachingoftalking.com/pre-order-the-teaching. The audio book: Teaching of Talking on Audible.com.
Do not hesitate to contact me if I can be of any service to you. http://teachingoftalking.com/contact-us
Best,
Mark A. Ittleman, M.S., CCC/SLP
Speech Language Pathologist, Author & Lecturer
Taking a Stand for Speaking Clarity Throughout the World
markittleman@teachingoftalking.com
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