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Hypernasal Speech

July 5th, 2019
 
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Overview

  • Listen For

  • Speech that is excessively nasal in quality, particularly on articulating vowels. Nasal emissions (air escaping through the nose) may occur on articulating consonants.
  • Significance

  • Hypernasal speech is associated with flaccid dysarthria, due to a lower motor neuron lesion.
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