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Prashant Prakash
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Jun 3, 2026
16. Restoring speech
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Davide ValerianiHOST
All right, so let's kick off by setting the ground here and understanding like for a patient with a speech impairment, for example, what options do these patients have today available for restoring their speech?

Prashant PrakashGUEST
Typically, patients with speech impairments have to rely on whatever movement is left, so any residual movement they have, to communicate.

Prashant PrakashGUEST
In patients who might just have language impairments but can move their arms and legs, they tend to start using those.

Prashant PrakashGUEST
but there are also like a specific demographic of patients who might not even have any sort of movement left for them, especially like patients who have like locked-in syndrome.

Prashant PrakashGUEST
Stephen Hawking is a very popular example of someone who had such a condition.

Prashant PrakashGUEST
Sometimes that's just like a twitching finger or like a movement of the head or the cheeks to try to communicate.
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