Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders and Clinical Neuro-Linguistics

• Ataxophemia — A rare neurological and speech disorder manifested by a lack of coordination in the muscles involved in phonation, leading to defective articulation, rhythm irregularities, and jerky or incoherent speech. The condition is not caused by an intrinsic weakness of the vocal apparatus, but by a structural dysfunction in the transmission of motor nerve impulses, disrupting the harmonious sequence of emitted sounds.