A rare disease in the Top End affects muscles for speech. Here's how we're designing alternative ways to communicate in Yolŋu languages
- Written by: Rebecca Amery, Clinical Education Coordinator - Speech Pathology, Charles Darwin University
Machado-Joseph-Disease (MJD) is a rare neurodegenerative disease that affects muscles in the body, including those required for speech. It is prevalent in some remote First Nations communities in the Northern Territory and Queensland.
Yolŋu First Nations people from northeast Arnhem Land are among those disproportionately affected. Yolŋu...
