(1) Speech Therapist; Master degree student in the area of Human Communication Disorders of the Federal University of Santa Maria. (2) Speech Therapist; Master degree student in the area of Human Communication Disorders of the Federal University of Santa Maria. (3) Speech Therapist; Master in Human Communication Disorders of the Federal University of Santa Maria. (4) Speech Therapist; PhD stude...

    Background: Intelligibility refers to understandability of speech; and lack of it can negatively affect children’s overall communication effectiveness. Children with repaired cleft lip and/or cleft palate (CL/P) may experience poor speech intelligibility. This study aimed at evaluating speech intelligibility in children with repaired CL/P who had not been referred to sp...

Speech is the vocal utterance of language and it considered disordered in three underlying ways: voice, articulation, fluency, its disorder to be studied from same pattern. The features that should determining a voice are: Volume: how loudly or softly we speak, Pitch: pleasant unpleasant Quality: highness lowness one’s Rate: speed at which one speaks. Homeoapthic repertory shows these symptoms,...

Objectives: In the early stages, most Parkinson’s patients display some degrees of voice and speech disorders. Speech disorders can negatively affect social interactions and human life, thus treatment plans for the disorders in the early stages might be further beneficial than the late stages. Therefore, we aimed to investigate on the effect of an intervention on Persian patients with early mil...