Speech Problems of Patients with Multiple Sclerosis
- 1 November 1960
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Speech Language Hearing Association in Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders
- Vol. 25 (4) , 385-390
- https://doi.org/10.1044/jshd.2504.385
Abstract
Eighty-two patients with multiple sclerosis having a mean age of 40.6 years with a standard deviation of 10.3 were examined for their speech characteristics, the most frequent being dysarthria, with scanning speech, excessive nasality, weak phonation, impaired respiration, faulty pitch, reduced rate, and emotional lability. Of 68 of the 82 patients receiving speech re-education, 58 demonstrated improvement in speech. Particular gains were experienced in rate of speech and louder phonation.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: