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 this retrospective study, voice therapy results of adult patients with hyperfunctional voice disorders were discussed. PATIENTS AND METHODS Ninety-one adult patients (59 females, 32 males; mean age: 37 years; range 18 to 54 years) who completed their voice therapy sessions between May 2002 and May 2007 were included in this study. The voice therapy plan was focused on developing...

We present a study where we examined the influence of a regional accent in the perception of voice and/or speech disorders. These aspects are most of the time overshadowed in clinical context. This protocol, involving multiple sources of speech variations, is also interesting for perception theories. For the experiment, speakers with or without a Southern French accent and with or without speec...

The aim of the present paper was to evaluate the possible impact of methacholine challenge on the voice and vocal tract in 10 patients reporting hoarseness due to presumable hyperreactivity to some environmental factors. Ten age and gender-matched healthy subjects served as controls. Methacholine was used for hypersensitivity challenge and saline solution (0.9% NaCl) as control substance. Subje...

BACKGROUND Bulimia nervosa (BN) is a type of feeding disorder that starts in adolescence and presents a variety of symptoms, recurrent vomiting in the oral cavity that may reach down to the larynx - similarly to gastro-esophageal reflux, causing laryngeal and voice disorder alterations. OBJECTIVE These studies aimed at surveying the literature and investigate the studies that considered BN a ...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Mutational falsetto is a functional voice disorder characterized by failure of the male high-pitched preadolescent voice to transition to the lower pitch of adolescence and adulthood. Few objective outcomes data exist regarding the effectiveness of voice therapy for this poorly understood disorder. This study examined the immediate effects of a single therapy session using...

The ability to recognise the identity of others is a key requirement for successful communication. Brain regions that respond selectively to voices exist in humans from early infancy on. Currently, it is unclear whether dysfunction of these voice-sensitive regions can explain voice identity recognition impairments. Here, we used two independent functional magnetic resonance imaging studies to i...