Blinded speech evaluation following pharyngeal flap surgery by speech pathologists and lay people in children with cleft palate

Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 288-295

  Tönz, Martin ^a   Schmid, Iris ^a   Graf, Maja ^a   Mischler Heeb, Regula ^a   Weissen, Josef ^a   Kaiser, Georges ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cleft palate; Pharyngeal flap; Speech; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CHILD; CLEFT PALATE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MISCELLANEOUS NAMED GROUPS; ORAL SURGERY; PATHOLOGIST; PATIENT; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SPEECH; SPEECH DISORDER; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOICE;

CHILD; CLEFT PALATE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHARYNGEAL MUSCLES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 0036971016     PISSN: 10217762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000066153     Document Type: Article

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