Hypokinetic Dysarthria - examples and tutorial 

Hello, Perhaps take a recording when it happens and then take it to a speech pathologist or doctor. Might not be anything to worry about but might as well check!

@@johnepierce noted & thank you. Hope its curable cuz it happen at certain period of time which is weird. & when it happen it wont go away for 2 days straight. It is annoying when im at work sounding like a toddler when talking to a customer.

Yes! That's what vascular parkinson's/parkinsonism refers to at 1:20. Typically it is many very small infarcts over time but larger strokes can also cause hypokinetic dysarthria if they bilaterally affect basal ganglia.

@@johnepierce thankyou! I’m currently studying speech path (2nd year) and find your videos very helpful!

Valerie Perez That's due to festination which is a feature of Parkinson's. I'm not sure what the mechanism of festination is outside of just saying it's dopamine-related. But movement basically means range here, and decreased range means you can complete more phonemes per unit of time. E.g. You can do more push-ups in a minute when you cheat and don't go all the way down. At least, I imagine that's a likely cause as festinated speech goes hand in hand with underarticulation.

It's reduced movement within the articulators, so for example the tongue may not make it all the way to it's target location

Yes, festinating speech.

@@johnepierce thank you! Such a helpful video 🙂