OBJECTIVE Constructing an internationally applicable short-scale of the Voice Handicap Index (VHI). METHODS Subjects were 1,052 patients with 5 different types of voice disorder groups from Belgium, France, Sweden, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, and the USA. Different 9- and 12-item subsets were selected from the 30 VHI items using (1) the first factor of an unrotated factor analy...

Researchers are of the belief that employee voice has favorable effects for both the employee and the organization. However, the effect of employee voice on creativity, and the process through which it influences creativity, has hitherto received little attention. This study aimed at investigating the relationship between perceived employee voice and creativity. Employees of three premier dairy...

In this paper, we investigate the proprieties of automatic speaker identification (ASI) to develop a system for voice pathologies detection, where the models do not correspond to different speakers but it corresponds to classes of patients who share the same diagnostic. One essential part in this topic is the database (described later), the samples voices (healthy and pathological) are chosen f...

BACKGROUND Temporomandibular dysfunction is one of the most complex disorders of the body, capable of unchaining alterations in the mandibular movements which in turn can cause damage not only to speech articulation but also to the quality of voice. In the literature, the relationship between the symptomatology severity levels of this dysfunction and their influence on vocal production has been...

Method: The study was carried out in three phase. Phase I: V-DOP developed by Konnai et al., 2010 (in Kannada & English for Indian population) was translated in Tamil and verified for content validity. Phase II: English and Tamil version of V-DOP was administered on forty eight subjects for validation. Phase III: Correlating scores from DSI and V-DOP was done on fifty subjects with voice concer...

Lipoid proteinosis is a rare autosomal recessive disorder which may be seen within a family very occasionally. Herein, we report lipoid proteinosis in two sisters characterized by verrucous lesions and hoarseness of voice, dysphagia and multiple beaded papules along the margins of their eyelids, fissured lips and thick ferenulum.

In this article, we argue that the exclusion of autistic people from meaningful involvement in research is both ethically and epistemologically problematic, and constitutes a significant barrier to research impact. By the term ‘meaningful’, we refer to the inclusion of different autistic voices not merely as sources of empirical material, but as active participants in the production of knowledg...