motor speech disorder


motor speech disorder

Audiology A disorder due to an inability to accurately produce speech sound or phonemes due to muscle weakness/incoordination or difficulty in voluntary muscle movement. See Speech pathology.

mo·tor speech dis·or·der

(mō'tŏr spēch dis-ōr'dĕr) Difficulty in planning or producing speech due to problems with motor planning or muscle tone (e.g., apraxia, dysarthria).