If you know someone who is living with motor neurone disease (MND), it is likely that the muscles in their mouth, throat and chest will be affected. If someone you know is living with Kennedy’s disease, the muscles in their tongue and lips may be affected. This can cause speech and communication difficulties, and they may need to consider other ways to communicate. This might mean using communication aids. If computer-based, these often have a voice output, so that what is typed in can be ‘said’ out loud. If you know someone who would wish to use a computerised version of their own voice with a communication aid in the future, they can ‘bank’ their own voice.

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