Phoniatrics is the medical specialty involved in the management of communication and swallowing disorders. Videoendoscopy plays an important role in the assessment of various disorders in the clinical practice of phoniatrics: the voice as well as the speech and swallowing mechanisms can be analysed through this procedure. Aim of the study is to describe videoendoscopic application in daily phon...

Background: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) refers to lung diseases such as, Chronic Bronchitis, Chronic Asthma and Emphysema. These diseases are characterized by obstruction to airflow that interferes with normal breathing and they frequently co-exist. COPD can affect voice as respiration is a vital subsystem for voice production COPD that have a significant voice impairment which...

The present study explored the intensity level of authorial voice in relation to the quality of argumentative writing. 42 undergraduate learners of English as a foreign language (36 girls and 6 boys) spent 45 minutes to individually complete in-class position-taking writing tasks for three weeks. Their overall academic writing quality scores assigned based on portfolio assessment were studied i...

BACKGROUND Although voice tremor is one of the most commonly noted clinical features of essential tremor (ET), there are nearly no published data on the handicap associated with it. METHODS The Voice Handicap Index (VHI) was self-administered by participants enrolled in a research study at Columbia University Medical Center. The VHI quantifies patients' perceptions of handicap due to voice di...

In female-to-male/gender identity disorder (FTM/GID) patients, no voice therapy (VT) is required, as the administration of male hormones will naturally cause to become low-pitched. However, in male-to-female (MTF)/GID female does not high-pitched. Since 2014, we have performed type 4 thyroplasty (TP4) and preoperative postoperative VT for MTF/GID patients. this study, examined outcomes VT. The ...

Introduction: Acid reflux disease of the larynx has been established as a separate clinical entity in the present day, requiring the nuances of a skilled laryngologist for its early diagnosis and appropriate management. Clinical presentations of laryngopharyngeal reflux disorder may vary from very subtle to mammoth proportions, ranging across a panorama of features like chronic laryngitis, indo...

Abstract Background Obesity is considered a health problem that affects many systems of the body among which respiration and voice. The objective study was to analyze impact obesity in children on quality their Thirty obese were included this cross-sectional compared 30 age- sex-matched healthy as control group. Voice cases controls assessed subjectively by auditory perceptual assessment object...

Voice loss constitutes a crucial disorder which is highly associated with social isolation. The use of multimodal information sources, such as, audiovisual information, since it can lead to the development straightforward personalized word prediction models reproduce patient’s original voice. In this work we designed approach based on from patients before loss-of-voice develop system for automa...

Background: Although voice tremor is one of the most commonly noted clinical features of essential tremor (ET), there are nearly no published data on the handicap associated with it. Methods: The Voice Handicap Index (VHI) was self-administered by participants enrolled in a research study at Columbia University Medical Center. The VHI quantifies patients’ perceptions of handicap due to voice di...