Aphasia is an acquired language disorder resulting from a brain injury (e.g. from a stroke, a brain tumour or a head injury). The understanding and/or expression of spoken and/or written language is impaired. This can lead to difficulties in speaking, understanding, reading, writing or a combination of these.
Dysarthria is an acquired speech disorder resulting from a disorder in the nervous system. That disorder disrupts the functioning of one or more muscles involved in speaking. It is not a language disorder. The patient can find the words and sentences, but cannot pronounce them properly and clearly. There are different types and degrees of intelligibility.
Speech apraxia is an articulation disorder resulting from a brain injury characterised mainly by articulatory and prosodic disorders. The disorder involves a problem with the deliberate pronunciation of sounds, words and/or sentences.
Dysphagia is an acquired swallowing disorder in which the functioning of muscles or nerves involved in one of the three phases of swallowing is impaired. This can cause problems with the efficiency or safety of swallowing.
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