Reliability of Speaking and Maximum Voice Range Measures in Screening for Dysphonia

Journal of Voice

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 397-406

  Ma, Estella ^a,b   Robertson, Jennie ^b   Radford, Claire ^b   Vagne, Sarah ^b   El Halabi, Ruba ^b   Yiu, Edwin ^a  

^a Voice Research Laboratory   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dysphonia; Functional continuous speech; Maximum vocal capacity; Voice range profile (phonetogram)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHONIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNX DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHONATION; RELIABILITY; SCREENING TEST; VOICE;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNX; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOICE DISORDERS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 34250902880     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2006.03.004     Document Type: Article

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