Nasalance Scores in Normal Finnish Speech

Aims: The aim of this study was to obtain normative nasalance values for typically developing Ugandan English-speaking children as a reference point for clinical practice and further research. Methods: Sixty-nine typically developing Ugandan children (35 males and 34 females, 2.7–13.5 years of age) participated in the study. Nasalance scores were obtained with the Nasometer while children repeated 4 sustained sounds, 14 repeated syllables, 15 sentences (12 oral, 3 nasal) and 2 texts (‘Rainbow Passage’ and ‘Zoo Passage’). Data were analyzed for gender and age dependence. Results: No significant effects of age or gender on nasalance values were obtained; hence, normative values for the overall group were reported. The average nasalance scores for Ugandan English-speaking children were 17 and 64% for the oral and nasal sentences and 33 and 14% for the oronasal and oral text, respectively. Conclusion: The normative values are important as a reference point to assess the impact of several surgical procedures and several surgical timing strategies on speech in Uganda.

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confidence: 99%

Normative Nasalance Data in Ugandan English-Speaking Children

Luyten

D’haeseleer²,

Hodges³

et al. 2012

“…Fletcher [11] and Watterson et al [12] independently found a mean score of 15% for children. In an effort to provide normative data for other languages, researchers have published nasalance scores for native speakers of Australian [13], Dutch [14], Irish [15], Thai [16], Flemish [17], Cantonese [18], Japanese [19], Spanish [3,20], Finnish [21], Portuguese [22], Egyptian Arabic [23], Ugandan English [24], and other languages. …”

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confidence: 99%

Reliability and Validity of Nasality Ratings between a Monolingual and Bilingual Listener for Speech Samples from English-Spanish-Speaking Children

Watterson

Lewis

Murdock

et al. 2013

Objective: This study sought to determine if a monolingual English listener could rate nasality in English and in Spanish with the same proficiency as a bilingual English-Spanish listener, and to compare nasalance scores with nasality ratings. Patients and Methods: Speakers for this study were 26 bilingual English-Spanish-speaking children. Speech samples and nasalance scores were obtained simultaneously as each speaker recited one English sentence and one Spanish sentence. A monolingual listener and a bilingual listener rated nasality. Results: For the English sentences, the intrajudge correlation coefficient was r = 0.89 for the monolingual listener and r = 0.89 for the bilingual listener. For the Spanish sentences, the intrajudge correlation coefficient was r = 0.91 for the monolingual listener and r = 0.92 for the bilingual listener. Interjudge agreement was r = 0.86 for rating English sentences and r = 0.78 for rating Spanish sentences. All correlation coefficients were significant (p < 0.001). The correlation coefficients between nasality ratings and nasalance scores were essentially the same for both listeners and both languages. Conclusion: A monolingual and a bilingual judge had high agreement on ratings of nasality for English and Spanish speech. The relationship between nasalance and nasality was not different across languages.

“…Nasalance scores have shown many similarities in different languages; however, variation in norms is present. Nasalance scores were originally determined for English [4], Spanish [5], Finnish [6], Flemish[7], German [8], Thai [9], Hungarian [3] and Japanese [10] speech samples. The presence of cross-dialectal and cross-linguistic differences in nasometric values was documented by Seaver et al [4], Leeper et al [11] and Anderson [5].…”

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confidence: 99%

Standardization of Nasometry for Normal Egyptian Arabic Speakers

Abou-Elsaad

Quriba

Baz

et al. 2012

Objective: The aim of this study was to collect the normative values of nasalance for Egyptian Arabic speakers in different age groups, using Arabic speech samples in order to compare patients with disturbed nasality. Material and Methods: This study included 300 normal Egyptian volunteers divided into three groups according to their ages: group I = children (n = 92; age 3 years, 3 months to 9 years), group II = teenagers (n = 76; age 9–18 years) and group III = adults (n = 132; age above 18 years). The Nasometer II 6400 was used for the analysis of speech samples. All subjects were asked to perform four speech tasks that were based on the MacKay-Kummer SNAP Test-R and modified to be applicable to the Arabic language, especially to the Egyptian dialect. Results: The normative values for nasometric assessment in the different age groups were studied. The results demonstrated nasalance score variations according to age and gender. Most of the nasalance score norms of the Egyptian children demonstrated statistically significant differences when compared with the norms of children for the MacKay-Kummer Test-R. Conclusion: The Egyptian Arabic SNAP test is an easy, noninvasive and objective procedure that is suitable for all age groups.