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Advances in neuroscience have led to an expanded and improved understanding of neurobiological changes associated with rehabilitation and exercise in Parkinson's disease (PD). This knowledge has led to a direct clinical impact of increased referral for early and continuous exercise programs for individuals with PD (physical, occupational, speech therapy and general exercise programs) and an inc...

For voice rehabilitation, speech intelligibility is an important criterion. Automatic evaluation of intelligibility has been shown to be successful for automatic speech recognition methods combined with prosodic analysis. In this paper, this method is extended by using measures based on the Cepstral Peak Prominence (CPP). 73 hoarse patients (48.3± 16.8 years) uttered the vowel /e/ and read the ...

Objective assessment of voice and speech properties via telephone is desirable for rehabilitation purposes. 82 patients after partial laryngectomy read a standardized text on the phone. Five experienced raters assessed speech effort, match of breath and sense units, vocal tone, intelligibility, and overall voice quality perceptually based on these recordings. Objective evaluation was performed ...

INTRODUCTION Dysphonia is the main symptom of the disorders of oral communication. However, voice disorders also present with other symptoms such as difficulty in maintaining the voice (asthenia), vocal fatigue, variation in habitual vocal fundamental frequency, hoarseness, lack of vocal volume and projection, loss of vocal efficiency, and weakness when speaking. There are several proposals for...

Parkinson disease is a common progressive neurological disorder with an unluown etiology. It hns a high incidence of speech, voice and laryngeal abnormalities which vary due to the severity of the disease. In addirton b temor and supraglottic hyperfinction, bowed vocal folds may result as part of the aging process. This condirton will cause an inadequate vocal fold adduction or hypoadduction. T...

A well-controlled recording in a studio is fundamental in most voice rehabilitation. However, this laboratory like recording method has been questioned because voice use in a natural environment may be quite different. In children's natural environment, high background noise levels are common and are an important factor contributing to voice problems. The primary noise source in day-care center...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Rehabilitation of the bilaterally paralyzed human larynx remains a complex clinical problem. Conventional treatment generally involves surgical enlargement of the compromised airway, but often with resultant dysphonia and risk of aspiration. In this retrospective study, we compared one such treatment, posterior cordotomy, with unilateral laryngeal pacing: reanimation of vocal fo...

Objectives: The present study aimed to determine the voice outcomes before and after the administration of voice therapy in patients who suffered an injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve after undergoing thyroidectomy. Methods: The sample consisted of 26 patients (2 males and 24 females) aged between 18 and 80 years (m=55±12) who experienced injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve fol...

Background: Functional speech rehabilitation after total laryngectomy remains one of the most challenging issues in head and neck multidisciplinary care. Tracheoesophageal puncture for voice prosthesis insertion performed as a secondary procedure with a rigid esophagoscope and trocar can be technically difficult in certain patients due to post-treatment cervical abnormalities, such as reduced h...