Introduction: Bilateral vocal cords paralysis in adduction when it is irreversible requires treatment due to the inspiratory dyspnea that produces. Different surgical techniques can be used increase glottic space. Posterior cordotomy with partial arytenoidectomy improves and one of most surgeries. Objectives: To determine resolution rate or decannulation, patients bilateral cord treated posteri...

Little is known regarding the covariance between physiological and nonverbal responses to ‘‘stressful’’ situations. We argue that physiological markers are especially likely to be accompanied by psychologically-meaningful nonverbal behavior. Within ‘‘stressful’’ motivated performance situations, complex patterns of cardiovascular (CV) reactivity mark challenge and threat motivational states rel...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To critically review current literature comparing interventional approaches for unilateral vocal fold paralysis. STUDY DESIGN Systematic review of the literature. METHODS All English-language literature published in the PubMed database was eligible for inclusion. Inclusion criteria were: 1) the major topic must be a direct comparison of outcomes in interventions for un...

This paper has been written to draw attention to the association between intramuscular injections and flaccid paralysis of one limb. Seventeen affected children have been examined and followed up personally. The records of a further 60 to 70 cases have been available and have been used to provide information not clearly brought out in the shorter series. Cases in which injection preceded paraly...

We evaluated the effects of a training package, including instructions, modeling, rehearsal, and feedback, for training staff members to conduct mand training with children. Experimenters collected data on staff performance on each step of a task analysis of mand training and on unprompted child vocal mands. Training resulted in increases in staff performance in mand training and in unprompted ...

Studies of gestural communication systems find that they originate from spontaneously created iconic gestures. Yet, we know little about how people create vocal communication systems, and many have suggested that vocalizations do not afford iconicity beyond trivial instances of onomatopoeia. It is unknown whether people can generate vocal communication systems through a process of iconic creati...