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What is apraxia - Ninja Warrior Chris Kamara’s health condition causing slurred speech

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Football pundit Chris Kamara suffered from slurred speech on Soccer Saturday last weekend. Ex-midfielder Chris - aka ‘Kammy’ - worried fans during his TV appearance, and took to Twitter to explain what was wrong.The Ninja Warrior presenter, 64, wrote: “Just wanted to let a few of you know who tweeted me today that I am ok ish. “Alongside my thyroid problem I have developed apraxia of speech and have been working to get my speech back to normal. “Some days it can be a little slow and some days it’s normal.

Hopefully I can beat this!” Chris revealed last year that he’d been diagnosed with an underactive thyroid, which causes tiredness and weight gain, depression and sensitivity to cold.

Here, we explain what we know about his speech condition. Apraxia of speech Apraxia is a motor speech disorder that makes it hard to speak.

It’s a bit like dyslexia - difficulty learning to read or interpret words, letters and symbols. But apraxia means saying the right sounds and words is very challenging.

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