Motor Speech Disorders Lab

The Motor Speech Disorders Lab (MSDLab) examines how communication partners understand and adapt to speech produced by people with dysarthria. Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder that arises from stroke, traumatic brain injury, and neurological diseases, such as Parkinson disease or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and often results in intelligibility disorders. The primary goal of the Lab is to improve communication with individuals with dysarthria through training the listener to better understand the speaker with dysarthria.