Foreign accent syndrome is a rare medical condition in which patients develop what appears to be a foreign accent. If you have FAS, you adopt what sounds like a foreign accent, even though you may never have traveled to that particular country.

1. Presented by:
-Sirine Ben Dhiab

2. • Alteration of tone ,
pitch , and rhythm of a
person’s speech .
• Perceived as a different
accent .
• Claims of diffrent
language abilities .

3. • Stroke
• Trauma to the brain
• Brain hemorrhage
• Multiple sclerosis
• Brain tumor
• Aphasia
• Apraxia

4. • Speech therapy
• Counseling

6.  First observed in 1907.
 Most famous case from 1941 in Norway ,
woman developed German accent and was
shunned .
 There are only 60
Cases worldwide .

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