By Rolf A. Zwaan, Florida State University. The League Treatment Center Entrance - League Treatment Center, a national pioneer, is the country's oldest day treatment program for autistic children, now effectively treats 500 multiply handicapped children and adults. Speech is slow, weak, imprecise or uncoordinated. It can affect both children and adults. It is often a symptom of a disease, such as cerebral palsy, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, myotonic dystrophy, Bell palsy.
Intelligibility is a measure of how well speech can be understood.
Everyone has dysfluencies from time to time. Everyone has dysfluencies in their speech. Apraxia Apraxia is a motor disorder in which volitional or voluntary movement is impaired without muscle weakness. The ability to select and sequence movements is impaired. Oral apraxia affects one ability to move the muscles of the mouth for non-speech purposes.