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Swallowing Disorder

Dr. Harun Ar Rashid, MD - Arthritis, Bones, Joints Pain, Trauma, and Internal Medicine Specialist

Swallowing disorder involving the oral cavity, pharynx, esophagus, or gastroesophageal junction. Consequences of dysphagia include malnutrition and dehydration, aspiration pneumonia, compromised ...

Dysphagia – Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment

Dr. Harun Ar Rashid, MD - Arthritis, Bones, Joints Pain, Trauma, and Internal Medicine Specialist

Dysphagia is a swallowing disorder involving the oral cavity, pharynx, esophagus, or gastroesophageal junction. Consequences of dysphagia include malnutrition and dehydration, aspiration ...

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Dysarthria – Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment

Dr. Harun Ar Rashid, MD - Arthritis, Bones, Joints Pain, Trauma, and Internal Medicine Specialist

Dysarthria can result from congenital conditions, or it can be acquired at any age as the result of neurologic injury, disease, or disorder. The scope of this page is limited to acquired ...

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What Is Dementia?

Dr. Harun Ar Rashid, MD - Arthritis, Bones, Joints Pain, Trauma, and Internal Medicine Specialist

Dementia is a syndrome resulting from acquired brain disease. It is characterized by a progressive decline in memory and other cognitive domains that, when severe enough, interferes with daily ...

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Cochlear Implants

Dr. Harun Ar Rashid, MD - Arthritis, Bones, Joints Pain, Trauma, and Internal Medicine Specialist

A cochlear implant (CI) is a surgically implanted, electronic prosthetic device that provides electrical stimulation directly to auditory nerve fibers in the cochlea. It effectively bypasses ...

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Cleft Lip and Palate

Dr. Harun Ar Rashid, MD - Arthritis, Bones, Joints Pain, Trauma, and Internal Medicine Specialist

Craniofacial conditions, including cleft lip and palate, are congenital structural anomalies caused by atypical embryological development. Craniofacial differences are a result of interruption in ...

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Central Auditory Processing (CAP)

Dr. Harun Ar Rashid, MD - Arthritis, Bones, Joints Pain, Trauma, and Internal Medicine Specialist

Central auditory processing (CAP)—also seen in the literature as (central) auditory processing or auditory processing—is the perceptual processing of auditory information in the central auditory ...

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Balance Disorders

Dr. Harun Ar Rashid, MD - Arthritis, Bones, Joints Pain, Trauma, and Internal Medicine Specialist

A functioning balance system allows a person to move through the environment without falling and to be aware of one’s physical position about gravity. The human balance system is complex. It ...

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Autism – Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment

Dr. Harun Ar Rashid, MD - Arthritis, Bones, Joints Pain, Trauma, and Internal Medicine Specialist

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by deficits in social communication and social interaction and the presence of restricted, repetitive behaviors....

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Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Dr. Harun Ar Rashid, MD - Arthritis, Bones, Joints Pain, Trauma, and Internal Medicine Specialist

Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) is an area of clinical practice that supplements or compensates for impairments in speech-language production and/or comprehension, including ...

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Aural Rehabilitation

Dr. Harun Ar Rashid, MD - Arthritis, Bones, Joints Pain, Trauma, and Internal Medicine Specialist

The scope of this page is aural rehabilitation for adult populations ages 18 and older.The definition of aural rehabilitation (AR), as well as the terminology used to describe the practice of ...

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Childhood Apraxia

Dr. Harun Ar Rashid, MD - Arthritis, Bones, Joints Pain, Trauma, and Internal Medicine Specialist

Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a neurological childhood (pediatric) speech sound disorder in which the precision and consistency of movements underlying speech are impaired in the absence ...

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Aphasia – Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment

Dr. Harun Ar Rashid, MD - Arthritis, Bones, Joints Pain, Trauma, and Internal Medicine Specialist

Aphasia is an acquired neurogenic language disorder resulting from an injury to the brain—most typically, the left hemisphere. Aphasia involves varying degrees of impairment in four primary ...

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Aerodigestive Disorders

Dr. Harun Ar Rashid, MD - Arthritis, Bones, Joints Pain, Trauma, and Internal Medicine Specialist

The scope of this Practice Portal page is aerodigestive disorders that affect feeding, swallowing, voice, and/or respiration in children and adults.Structural abnormalities and complex medical ...

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Acquired Apraxia

Dr. Harun Ar Rashid, MD - Arthritis, Bones, Joints Pain, Trauma, and Internal Medicine Specialist

The scope of this page is limited to acquired and progressive apraxia of speech. See ASHA’s Practice Portal page on Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) for information about speech motor ...