Essay On Dysarthria

Introduction
Speech Disorders are an issue in today's society. I know this firsthand because I have a brother with Down Syndrome. My brother Carlos’ main issue is his speech. Me as his little sister I understand him better than anyone. People are always asking me what is he saying or can you translate for him. So I do but the cool thing about this is that new people that meet him really connect with him even when they have trouble communicating with him. They want to learn how to communicate and understand him. My brother is a very outgoing, fun, and an athletic person. The only thing that stops him is his speech. My family and I work together to better his speech by talking and having conversations with him all the time because that more he practices the better he’ll get. What has also improved his speech is that we take him to speech thearaphy and the speech thearapist sugetted that we get
Or this occurs by stroke, brain injury, tumors, and parkinson's disease. Dysarthria is diagnosed by a speech-language pathologist. A SLP evaluates the person's “speech difficulties and determine the nature and severity of the problem”.(ASHA) A SLP will look at the “movement of the lips, tongue, and face, as well as breath support for speech and voice quality”.(ASHA) Some possible goals to treat dysarthria are “slowing the rate of speech, improving the breath support so the person can speak more loudly, strengthening muscles and improving speech sound production so that speech is more clear”.(ASHA) How to talk with a person with dysarthria includes “check with the listeners to make sure that they understand you”(ASHA) make sure to “speak slowly and loudly and pause frequently”(ASHA) How to listen to a person with dysarthria “pay [close] attention to the speaker with dysarthria, “watch the person as he or she talks”(ASHA) and always “let the speaker know when you have difficulty understanding him or