Traditional clinical voice evaluation focuses primarily on the severity of impairment, with little emphasis impact disorders individual’s quality life. This study reports development a 28-item assessment tool that evaluates perception problem, activity limitation, and participation restriction using International Classification Impairments, Disabilities Handicaps-2 Beta-1 concept (World Health Organization, 1997). The questionnaire was administered to 40 subjects dysphonia control normal...

Perceptual voice evaluation is a common clinical tool for rating the severity of vocal quality impairment. However, process involves subjective judgment, and reliability therefore major issue that needs to be considered. When listeners are asked judge signal, they use their own internal standards as references. These can variable, different individuals may have acquired in prior situations. In order improve perceptual process, external anchors training provided counteract effect these...

Recent developments in voice assessment propose the use of quality life measurements. The Voice Handicap Index (VHI) is one most psychometrically robust and well-studied instruments among various for measuring life. Two versions VHI (VHI-30 VHI-10) have been shown to be valid distinguishing dysphonic from nondysphonic individuals also documenting treatment effect patients. has used worldwide; however, psychometric properties Chinese version remains untested. This study aimed investigate such...

The aim of this article is to describe how the World Health Organization's International Classification Functioning, Disability and (ICF) can be adapted consequences voice disorders. It first describes disorders under four key components ICF: Body Functions, Structures, Activities Participation, Contextual (Environmental Personal) Factors. then assessment treatment tools for using ICF framework. Finally, a case example illustrating frames rehabilitation an individual with presented.

Objective : To investigate (1) speech intelligibility and acceptability in using 4 different alaryngeal methods: esophageal (ES), electrolaryngeal (EL), pneumatic device (PD), tracheosophageal (TE) speech; and(2) communication-related quality of life (QOL) the speakers who used these methods. Design: Survey.Participants: Alaryngeal had undergone rehabilitation were recruited from New Voice Club Hong Kong.Main Outcome Measures: Speech samples collected 49 rated by 6 judges for...

Perceptual voice evaluation is a common clinical tool. However, to date, there no consensus yet as which quality should be measured. Some available evidence shows that language-specific property may different across languages. The familiarity of language affect the perception and reliability in rating quality.The present study set out investigate effects listeners' cultural backgrounds on qualities.Forty speech pathology students from Australia Hong Kong were asked rate breathy rough...

Objective: There are potential benefits of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in improving swallowing functions after stroke; however, few studies have been performed the chronic stroke population.This study aims to distil key effects rTMS on and swallowing-related quality life. Methods: Twenty-two participants with poststroke dysphagia were randomly assigned into active or sham groups.Seven withdrew from study, thus data 15 (mean age 64.6 years) analysed.Participants...

Abstract The Boston Naming Test (BNT) is frequently used to assess for word-retrieval difficulties, but its use outside North America restricted by items such as 'beaver' and 'pretzel'. A total of 136 older Australians were tested on the BNT. Those which produced naming errors identified alternative trialled. Age, years schooling, visual acuity forward backward digit span assessments correlated with BNT scores, analysed. mean score Australian subjects was two five below reported scores...

AbstractOne of the factors that affects reliability perceptual voice evaluation is rating scale. Equal‐appearing interval (EAI) and visual analogue (VA) scales are two most common used have attracted much attention in recent studies evaluation. Available findings contradictory, with one study finding EAI scale to be more desirable while an earlier showed equivocal results. The objective present was compare using 11‐point a VA scale, each 10 cm long, for quality Thirty listeners no prior...

The current cross-sectional study aimed to investigate risk factors for dysphagia in elderly individuals aged care facilities.A total of 878 from 42 facilities were recruited this study. dependent outcome was speech therapist-determined swallowing function. Independent Eating Assessment Tool score, oral motor assessment Mini-Mental State Examination, medical history, and various functional status ratings. Binomial logistic regression used identify independent variables associated with...

ABSTRACTS The incidence of language delay in Chinese preschool children was studied by a stratified proportional sampling all 3 year olds Hong Kong. Developmental Language Screening Scale (DLSS) devised for use with Cantonese speaking used to identify delay. Of 855 sampled the stage I screening procedure, 4%, 2.8% and 3.3% were identified as having verbal comprehension, expression or both respectively. II clinical diagnostic study included randomly selected group screened without any...

In recent years, acoustic perturbation measurement has gained clinical and research popularity due to the ease of availability commercial analysing software packages in market. However, because itself depends critically on accuracy frequency tracking from voice signal, researchers argue that measures are not suitable for dysphonic samples, which aperiodic nature. This study compares fundamental frequency, relative amplitude perturbation, shimmer percent noise-to-harmonic ratio between a...