Dysarthria

 

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Click here to listen to a stroke patient reading from the "Rainbow Passage". Click on the back button on your browser to return to this page when you have finished.

 

The "Rainbow Passage" is an example of what dysarthric speech sounds like. You can hear that the patient is not clearly intelligible.

 

 

Take a few minutes to write down the different ways that the patient's speech is affected and the impact this may have on the individual before moving to the next page.