Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder resulting from impairment in strength, speed and coordination of neural and/or muscular structures that are related to respiration, voice and speech. They may be classified as motor neuron dysarthria, cerebellar dysarthria and extrapyramidal dysarthria (subdivided as hypokinetic and hyperkinetic). Patients with dysarthria are evaluated primarily by neurology specialists. Though, we present our case to emphasize that dysarthria m...