In this paper we describe Erlangen-CLP, a large speech database of children with Cleft Lip and Palate. More than 800 German children with CLP (most of them between 4 and 18 years old) and 380 age matched control speakers spoke the semi-standardized PLAKSS test that consists of words with all German phonemes in different positions. So far 250 CLP speakers were manually transcribed, 120 of these ...

RESULTS: 50 patients had adequate photographic documentation for inclusion in the study. 44% of patients were classified as Veau I (mean cleft width [MW] 5.4 mm), 28% Veau II (MW 8.9 mm), 16% Veau III (MW 11.3 mm), and 12% Veau IV (MW 10.0 mm). No patients exhibited postoperative bleeding, dehiscence, airway problems, infection, fistula formation, or return to the operating room. We found that ...

We tested the applicability of the Goettinger Hoarseness Diagram (GHD) for quantitative evaluation of voice disorders after severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and compared the obtained data with those from established voice analysis systems such as the Multi-Dimensional Voice Program (MDVP), electroglottography (EGG) and perceptual ratings using sustained vowel productions from 10 patients wit...

Approximately 80% to 95% of patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) eventually develop speech impairments (Beukelman et al., 2011), such as defective articulation, slow laborious speech and hypernasality (Duffy, 2013). The relationship between impaired speech and asymptomatic speech may be seen as a divergence from a baseline. This relationship can be characterized in terms of measura...

RESULTS: 50 patients had adequate photographic documentation for inclusion in the study. 44% of patients were classified as Veau I (mean cleft width [MW] 5.4 mm), 28% Veau II (MW 8.9 mm), 16% Veau III (MW 11.3 mm), and 12% Veau IV (MW 10.0 mm). No patients exhibited postoperative bleeding, dehiscence, airway problems, infection, fistula formation, or return to the operating room. We found that ...

An 18-year-old female and a 14-year-old male who had previously received surgery for primary repair of a nonsyndromic cleft lip and palate (including alveolar defect bone grafting) unintentionally developed facial advancement at the Le Fort III level after surgical correction of their maxillary hypoplasia. The Le Fort I osteotomy, originally performed for their maxillary dentoalveolar hypoplasi...

In the early insidious phase of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), the patient will often present initially to the otolaryngologist for a presumed speech problem or dysphagia. Adult onset hypernasality, breathiness, articulation defects and voice harshness should all be seen as possible early signs of ALS and may allow the otolaryngologist to be the primary diagnostician for that disease; thr...

Speech quality is an essential output in assessing the success of a palatoplasty. The goal palatoplasty not merely to create simple anatomical closure palate, but also adequate velopharyngeal mechanism for normal speech outcome and prevent abnormal maxillofacial development after surgery. aim this study find out difference between post-cleft palate patients without cleft palate. An analytical r...