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The Motor Function, Speech and Rehabilitation Study Section reviews applications on normal and disordered motor function, including speech and voice production. Function across the lifespan [infancy through old age], in humans and other animals, is addressed. Also included are the development and evaluation of behavioral preventive and therapeutic interventions for movement, speech, voice, and related disorders. Although the focus is on behavior, studies may also consider associated anatomical, physiological, neural, hormonal, and genetic factors. Methods include [but are not limited to] behavioral experiments, physiological measurement, acoustic analysis, structural and functional imaging, and computational modeling. Specific areas covered include:

• Movement: Control of limbs and extremities; body posture and balance; locomotion; head, jaw, mouth, laryngeal, eye, facial and related movements; sensory-motor integration; perception – action; motor learning and motor skills; swallowing; movement disorders [including dyskinesia, dysphagia, dyspraxia, dystonia, paralysis, parkinsonism, repetitive stress injury, spasticity, tremor].
• Sound production: Motor and perceptual aspects of production of speech and other sounds via respiratory, laryngeal, and articulatory mechanisms; interactions of motor, acoustic and perceptual aspects of sound production; relations with breathing, chewing, swallowing, etc.; speech, voice, and related disorders [including dysarthria, dysfluency, dysphagia, dysphonia].
• Normal and abnormal development of movement and sound production; perceptual – motor development; aging-related changes; interactions with other physical conditions.
• Prevention and treatment of movement, speech, voice, and related disorders/disabilities; physical rehabilitation following disease or injury; prosthetic and adaptive technologies; related exercise.

Study sections with most closely related areas of similar science listed in rank order are:

Sensorimotor Integration [SMI] 
Language and Communication [LCOM]
Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Science [MRS]
Cognition and Perception [CP]
Biobehavioral Regulation, Learning and Ethology [BRLE]