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Abstract Dysarthria is a collective name for a group of related speech disorders that are due to disturbances in muscular control of the speech mechanism resulting from impairment of any of the basic motor processes involved in the execution of speech (Darley et al., 1975). Different types of dysarthrophonia have been known; flaccid, spastic, ataxic, hypokinetic, hyperkinetic and mixed dysarthrophonias (Yorkston and Beukelman, 1990). Speech rehabilitation can help dysarthrics to speak more intelligibly. Actually carefully planned therapy program can minimize the frustrations and maximize the patient’s feeling of making progress (Gentil, 1993). A protocol for assessment of dysarthria was structured and applied in phoniatric Unit, Ain Shams University (Kotby et al., 1995). It comprises three levels; elementary diagnostic procedures, clinical diagnostic aids and additional instrumental measures. This protocol was applied before and after the therapy to detect the efficacy of this type of rehabilitation in viewing the significant improvement of dysarthric patients. This was applied to 52 patients of different types of dysarthria. |