Normative nasalance scores in Chilean adults

Inostroza-Allende, Felipe; Palomares-Aguilera, Mirta; Jara, Matías González; Quezada, Camilo; Villarroel, Carlos Giugliano; Pegoraro‐Krook, Maria Inês

doi:10.1590/2317-1782/20212021152

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“…Also, results were obtained from all participants who underwent a nasometry assessment, performed with a model 6450 Nasometer (Kay Elemetrics Corp., Lincoln Park, NJ). The nasalance value (acoustic correlate of nasality) obtained during the repetition of sustained vowels /a/ and /i/ and the production of a numerical series (counting from 1 to 10) were recovered before and after primary surgery and after VPI surgery 22,23 …”

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Speech Outcomes and Velopharyngeal Function in Children Undergoing Submucous Cleft Palate Repair

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Inostroza-Allende

Meneses

et al. 2023

Journal of Craniofacial Surgery

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Objective: Describe and compare the results of speech and velopharyngeal function in children with classic and occult submucous cleft palate undergoing interdisciplinary treatment at the Gantz Foundation. Methods: The clinical history of all patients born between 2012 and 2017 with a diagnosis of classic or occult submucous cleft palate was retrospectively reviewed. Preoperative and postoperative medical, surgical, and speech and language history were collected. Results: Twenty-eight cases diagnosed at the age of 44.8±23.9 months were included. Of these, 71.4% presented classic submucous cleft, and 28.6% occult. Before primary surgery, 7.1% had a diagnosis of the syndrome, and 21.4% were under study. A total of 39.3% had hearing difficulties and 21.4% used tympanic ventilation tubes. A total of 60.7% had language problems, 39.3% had compensatory articulation, 17.9% had absent hypernasality, and 21.4% had absent nasal emission. The team indicated primary palate surgery in 71.4%, of which 85% performed the surgery at the mean age of 61.7±24.7 months. The surgical technique was Furlow in 88.2% of the cases and intravelar veloplasty in the remaining 11.8%. Then, 3 cases underwent velopharyngeal insufficiency surgery; 2 of them eliminated hypernasality and reduced nasal emission. The age of diagnosis (P=0.021) and the performance of velopharyngeal insufficiency surgery (P=0029) of the occult submucous cleft palate group was significatively later than the classic cleft palate group. Conclusions: Language, hearing, compensatory articulation, hypernasality, and nasal emission problems were recorded. A high percentage required primary surgery. Of these, a low proportion also required a velopharyngeal insufficiency surgery, which improved the velopharyngeal function of the children but did not completely adapt it. In this regard, early diagnosis is essential, as well as an analysis of each center primary closure protocol.

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Speech Outcomes and Velopharyngeal Function in Children Undergoing Submucous Cleft Palate Repair

Carvajal

Inostroza-Allende

Meneses

et al. 2023

Journal of Craniofacial Surgery

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Nasalance scores in Spanish-speaking children aged 3 to 5 years according to gender, age, and vowel load

Peris-Hernández,

Rosell-Clari,

Kummer

2024

Rev. investig. logop.

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Nasometry is a non-invasive, easy-to-use technique that provides objective data regarding the amount of acoustic energy in the oral and nasal cavities during speech. The goal of this study is to create a Spanish passage and determine normative nasalance values for typical Spanish-speaking children, 3 to 5 years of age, that allows us to compare the values in children of the same age who present hypernasality and velopharyngeal dysfunction. Second, to determine if there are significant differences in nasalance scores based on age or gender. Third, to test the impact of vowel load on nasalance scores. Data were collected from 130 children with no known speech, language, or hearing disorder. Participants were organized into three groups according to age. A nasometric assessment protocol for Spanish was developed based on an adaptation of the MacKay-Kummer Simplified Nasometric Assessment Procedures-Revised (SNAP-R; 2005). All participants were required to repeat the speech stimuli. Data were collected using the icSpeech nasometer and were recorded on EXCEL 365 sheets for further analysis. Normative data is now available for a Spanish version of the SNAP-R Test. No significant differences were found between the genders, but significant differences were found based on age. It was also found that a load of high and anterior vowels, especially the phoneme /i/, increased nasalance scores. This protocol created passages in Spanish that mimic the passages of the SNAP-R Test in English. These Spanish passages were normed for Spanish-speaking children. This study confirms that high vowels result in higher nasalance values and therefore, the vowel composition of a specific passage determines the nasalance score, not the language of the passage.

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Normative nasalance scores in Chilean adults

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Speech Outcomes and Velopharyngeal Function in Children Undergoing Submucous Cleft Palate Repair

Speech Outcomes and Velopharyngeal Function in Children Undergoing Submucous Cleft Palate Repair

Nasalance scores in Spanish-speaking children aged 3 to 5 years according to gender, age, and vowel load

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