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Speech Production Patterns Following Management Of Velopharyngeal Inadequacy, Debra Lynn Childs
Speech Production Patterns Following Management Of Velopharyngeal Inadequacy, Debra Lynn Childs
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This descriptive study investigated the pattern of speech sound production before and after surgical management of velopharyngeal inadequacy in two subjects. The research questions asked were: (a) What type of speech patterns do subjects referred for surgical management of velopharyngeal incompetence demonstrate presurgically? (b) What changes in the speech patterns of the subjects are observed in the immediate month following surgery for velopharyngeal incompetence? (c) Do these changes settle into a stabilized pattern of speech production by 4 months postsurgery?
The subjects' speech productions were audio recorded for analysis using the Broen CVC Probe to obtain imitated single word elicitations …
The Effect Of Diastema Closure On The Remediation Of Lateral /S/: A Case Study, Reta Price
The Effect Of Diastema Closure On The Remediation Of Lateral /S/: A Case Study, Reta Price
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An important morphological-marker and one of the most frequently occurring speech sounds in English, the /s/ phoneme is also one of the sounds most often in need of remediation. Often, air emission during /s/ production, a particularly stubborn, often residual production error, is not remediated through traditional treatment methods, and yet the negative effect /s/ distortions have on listeners has been well-documented.
The subject of this investigation was a forty-eightyear-old male who received treatment for a lateralized /s/ during grade-school. It was hypothesized that his exerting high anterior pressure to prevent air from escaping from a diastema between his two …