Tuomi, S. K. (1993). Evaluation of the effectiveness of voice therapy with a male-to-female transsexual subject. Scand J Log Phon, 18: 105-109.The benefits of voice therapy with a 44-year-old male-to-female transsexual subject were investigated. Voice therapy was aimed at increasing the subject's fundamental trequcncy to approximatc that of a female's. Spectrographic analysis revealed that the subject's average fundamental frequency increased from 100.7 Hz to 135.4 Hz.Perceptual analysis of the subject's voice, by a group of raters, indicated that after thcrapy, her' voice sounded less masculine and more feminine than before therapy. The results and their implications are discussed, particularly in light of the structural constraints of the male larynx on the success of voice therapy.
The receptive, expressive and pragmatic language abilities of 18-month-old Zulu speakers were assessed in order to obtain preliminary norms. Twenty-five participants of the Birth to Ten cohort study were investigated using parents reports, mother-child and tester-child interactions. Data was transcribed and analysed using nonparametric statistics. Results demonstrated that receptively subjects understood two-part instructions. Expressively, the mean lexicon was 4.12 words and mean length utterance 0.65. Pragmatically, subjects were functioning on a nonverbal level and exhibited culture-spesific items. The results provided information which could enable speech, language and hearing therapists to engage in primary and secondary prevention. An appropriate test battery for these children discussed.
Speech Pathology and Audiology students at the University of Witwatersrand participated in a field trip to learn about rural community work. In collaboration with rehabilitation workers at Tintswalo Hospital, Gazankulu, projects in pre-school language stimulation, aphasia assessment and intervention and hearing screening were undertaken. Projects adhered to community work principles. These were successful in terms of both providing a service to the community and teaching students principles and practice of community work.
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