- People learn new speech movements.
- Mouth must make small careful movements.
- The brain controls how the mouth moves.
- People heard themselves differently during the test.
- Because of that, people changed their speech.
- Stopping the brain's sense parts made memory weak.
- Stopping the brain's movement parts did not do this.
- This can help speech recovery after stroke.
Difficult words
- movement — an action of a body partmovements
- control — to direct or manage how something workscontrols
- memory — the ability to keep information in the brain
- recovery — the process of getting better after illness
- stroke — a brain problem when blood flow stops
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Discussion questions
- Have you ever heard your voice and changed how you speak?
- Would you like help to speak better?
- Do you practice small mouth movements when you learn speech?
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