Correlation between the perceptual rating of speech in Dutch patients with velopharyngeal insufficiency and composite measures derived from mean nasalance scores

Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 157-164

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acoustic nasometry; Composite measures; Hypernasality; Nasalance; Perceptual rating; Velopharyngeal insufficiency

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEVICE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NOSE; PALATOPHARYNGEAL INCOMPETENCE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SAMPLING; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH DISORDER; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION TESTS; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VELOPHARYNGEAL INSUFFICIENCY; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 1842627964     PISSN: 10217762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000076937     Document Type: Article

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