We present a case of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in middle-aged woman who presented with 2-year history dysarthria and dysphagia. On examination, she had spastic dysarthria, jaw clonus (video 1), hyperreflexia, fasciculations involving the tongue, trunk, extremities. Jaw is an upper motor sign that localizes to dysfunction corticobulbar fibers cranial 5th nerve nucleus. It analogous ank...

A previous study revealed that reliable assessment of dysarthria was feasible. However, that study also revealed a number of system limitations and suggested that technological enhancements and improvements in study design and clinical assessment protocols were needed before validity and reliability of assessment of dysarthria via telerehabilitation could be confirmed. In the current study, imp...

Dysarthria is a disorder that affects an individual’s speech intelligibility due to the paralysis of muscles and organs involved in articulation process. As condition often associated with physically debilitating disabilities, not only do such individuals face communication problems, but also interactions digital devices can become burden. For these individuals, automatic recognition (ASR) tech...