OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study was to investigate the prevalence of voice disorders and associated risk factors among primary school teachers in Hong Kong. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted based on a random sample of 20 primary schools in Hong Kong. A total of 714 full-time primary school teachers were invited to participate in the survey. Data were collected through a self-...

background : a head and neck (h&n;) cancer severely affect the voice and compromises the patient’s vocal independence. the present study proposed to investigate the difference in the three vital components of voice the pitch, jitter and shimmer in h&n; cancer patients and compared it with age matched healthy volunteers. methods : the voice parameters were ascertained in the freshly diagnosed h&...

We seek to investigate voice quality characteristics, in particular on a breathy to tense dimension, as an indicator for psychological distress, i.e. depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), within semi-structured virtual human interviews. Our evaluation identifies significant differences between the voice quality of psychologically distressed participants and not-distressed partic...

Shriberg et al. [Shriberg, L. et al. (2001). Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 44, 1097-1115] described prosody-voice features of 30 high functioning speakers with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) compared to age-matched control speakers. The present study reports additional information on the speakers with ASD, including associations among prosody-voice variables and ratings of...

Speech Pathologists use behavioural voice therapy to treat a wide variety of patients who suffer from dysphonia. In all cases these voice disorders can result in severe disability, distress and handicap as well as economic hardship and psychological trauma for the individual) [1-3] reported on the evidence base for primary speech/voice therapy intervention in five types of voice disorders. : Fu...

Parkinson disease is a neurological disorder. In this disease control over body muscles get disturbed. In almost 90% of the cases, people suffering from Parkinson disease (PD) have speech disorders. The goal of the paper is to differentiate healthy and PD affected persons using voice analysis. There are no well-developed lab techniques available for Parkinson detection. Parkinson detection usin...

UNLABELLED Increased life expectancy raises demands for special attention for the elderly population; speech, language and hearing science deals with their communication disorders. Hearing loss is a common disorder affecting this age group. It is known that the auditory feedback system is essential to human vocalizing, as it organizes voice production. AIM To assess and correlate the hearing ...

Phoniatric Aspects of Laryngeal Disorders Hajime Hirose, M. D. Research Institute of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo The disorder of voice is one of the most common problems of laryngeal pathologies. In the present report, phoniatric profiles of typical laryngeal disorders were presented and the relationship between the characteristics of abnormal voice and ...

AIMS AND BACKGROUND We report an extremely rare case of cervical chordoma presenting with impaired voice. METHOD Case report and a review of the literature concerning the presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of a cervical chordoma. RESULTS A singing teacher complaining of dysphonia was examined and surgically treated for a retropharyngeal extension of a cervical chordoma. A local recurren...

BACKGROUND Individuals with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) have difficulties recognizing mental states in others. Most research has focused on recognition of basic emotions from faces and voices separately. This study reports the results of a new task, assessing recognition of complex emotions and mental states from social scenes taken from feature films. The film format arguably is more chal...