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In the video, Brendan is a diagnosis of septa-optic dysarthria and cognitive delay. He has pitch and loudness problems. His voice is hoarse. He has the weakness of tongue, lip, teeth and jaw movement so the vocal fold does not vibrate too much. Also, his speech is slurred that people may difficult to understand (receptive issue). So, his speech is unclear. When he talks with the clinician, he rapids the rate of speech with a mumbling quality and no pause and stressed in each words.In this case, Brendan has speech disorder. His cause involves voice (pitch, loudness, and quality) and fluency (rhythm and rate). Brenda speaks fluency in sentences. His pitch is low, and the voice is weak. The reason is when the vocal folds swell, they vibrate

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