“SLURRED SPEECH”: DEFINITIONS
- Problem with articulation or pronouciation (dysarthria)
- Problem with language or word finding (aphasia)
- Problem with vocal quality (dysphonia or hypophonia)
- Problem of fluency (stutters, stammers, bradyphrenia)
- Mumbled speech is not an expressive aphasia
- Patient with profound facial weakness with dense hemiplegia may have lost the capacity to articulate but is not aphasic