What is a 'Facility'. A facility is a formal financial assistance program offered by a lending institution to help a company that requires operating capital. Types of facilities include overdraft services, deferred payment plans, lines of credit, revolving credit, term loans, letters of credit and swingline loans. A facility is essentially another name for a loan taken out by a company.
What are the causes of slurred speech? A: Dysarthria, a condition that results in slurred, slowed or otherwise difficult to comprehend speech, may be caused by a number of factors including alcohol intoxication, stroke, dementia or Parkinson's disease.
Fluency is the flow of speech. Fluent speech is smooth, forward-moving, unhesitant and effortless speech. A dysfluency is any break in fluent speech. Everyone has dysfluencies from time to time. Stuttering is speech that has more dysfluencies than is considered average. Everyone has dysfluencies in their speech. The average person will have between 7-10% of their speech dysfluent. These dysfluencies are usually word or phrase repetitions, fillers (urn, ah) or interjections. When a speaker experiences dysfluencies at a rate greater than 10% they may be stuttering.