Distinguishing and Improving Dysarthria due to Facial Weakness
Abstract
Abstract To the Editor. —An impairment of speech production can accompany a lesion of the seventh cranial nerve, producing paresis of facial muscles. The patients may become aware of their difficulties in speech production, particularly during telephone conversations when they may have to repeat themselves several times to be understood. The dysarthria is also apparent to the examining physician, raising the possibility that a brain-stem lesion is the cause of the speech disorder with...