Referenciar este material como: MIGUEL. H. C.; GENARO. K. F.; TRINDADE. I. E. K.Avaliação perceptiva e instrumental da função velofaríngea na fissura de palato submucosa assintomática. Pró-Fono Revista de Atualização Científica, Barueri (SP), v. 19, n. 1, p. 105-112, jan.-abr. 2007. Abstract Background: submucous cleft palate (SMCP) may or may not be associated to symptoms of velopharyngeal dys...

Hypernasality is a commonly perceived characteristic of speech in deaf adults and children, but the mechanism of this abnormal nasal resonance is poorly understood. The impact of cochlear implantation on nasalance measures in children with severe auditory deprivation has not been previously reported. We conducted a study of nasality in 6 deaf children who had undergone cochlear implantation. Vo...

Velopharyngeal dysfunction in cleft palate patients following the primary palate repair may result in nasal air emission, hypernasality, articulation disorder and poor intelligibility of speech. Among conservative treatment methods, speech aid prosthesis combined with speech therapy is widely used method. However because of its long time of treatment more than a year and low predictability, som...

In this study, the adaptation of patients to removable partial dentures was evaluated related to articulation of Turkish phonemes. Articulation of /t,d.n,l,r/, /g,k/, /b,p,m/ and /s,z,ş,v,f,y,j,h,c/ phonemes were evaluated by three speech pathologists, on records taken from 15 patients before the insertion of a removable partial denture, just after insertion, and one week later. The test consis...

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of maxillary advancement on speech resonance in subjects with cleft lip and palate. The study sample was composed of 42 subjects aged 16 to 41 years old with operated cleft palate ± lip submitted to maxillary advancement. Resonance was evaluated before and 3 to 12 months after surgery by perceptual analysis and graduated from absent t...

This paper addresses two questions about voice disorders in patients with cleft lip and palate (CLP): 1. What is the actual prevalence of voice disorders in CLP and is this prevalence higher than in the non-cleft population? 2. Is there an interaction between hypernasality and phonatory dysfunction which can be assessed in terms of signal perturbation quotients? In the first study, 154 CLP pati...