The intrajudge reliability of the perceptual rating of cleft palate speech before and after pharyngeal flap surgery: The effect of judges and speech samples

Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 328-333

  Keuning, Kornelis H D ^a   Wieneke, George H ^a   Dejonckere, Philippe H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cleft palate speech; Expertise of judges; Intrajudge reliability; Perceptual evaluation; Types of speech samples

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLEFT LIP PALATE; EXPERT SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHARYNX RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

ADOLESCENT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CLEFT PALATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHARYNX; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; SURGICAL FLAPS; TAPE RECORDING; VELOPHARYNGEAL INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0032970655     PISSN: 10556656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1597/1545-1569(1999)036<0328:TIROTP>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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