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Prashant Prakash

Actor

Jun 3, 2026

0:45
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?
0:59
Typically, patients with speech impairments have to rely on whatever movement is left, so any residual movement they have, to communicate.
1:09
In patients who might just have language impairments but can move their arms and legs, they tend to start using those.
1:16
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.
1:26
Stephen Hawking is a very popular example of someone who had such a condition.
1:31
And then they basically try to use whatever residual movement they have.
1:35
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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10:40
And then what's the next step to get to our award cut there?

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