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dc.contributor.author | Bruneel, Laura | |
dc.contributor.author | Bettens, Kim | |
dc.contributor.author | De Bodt, Marc | |
dc.contributor.author | Roche, Nathalie | |
dc.contributor.author | Van Lierde, K.M. (Kristiane) | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-02-23T12:30:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-03 | |
dc.description.abstract | OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTS : Speech outcomes were described for 16 patients with cleft palate (mean age: 5.4 years) following Sommerlad primary palatoplasty performed by a single surgeon of the Ghent University Hospital. These speech outcomes were compared with those of an age and gender matched control group without cleft palate (mean age: 5.3 years). METHODS : Speech intelligibility/distinctiveness, resonance, nasal airflow and articulation, were perceptually evaluated. Additionally, nasalance values and the NSI 2.0 were determined. RESULTS : In seven patients, speech intelligibility/distinctiveness was disordered. Hypernasality was present in twelve participants, whereas nasal emission and nasal turbulence were perceived in thirteen and five patients respectively. Both perceptual and instrumental speech evaluations were significantly poorer in the patient group in comparison to the control group. CONCLUSIONS : Patients still present with both obligatory and compensatory speech disorders following Sommerlad’s palatoplasty. In the future, a Dutch speech assessment protocol will be developed in order to standardize follow-up of these patients and to allow for within-center and inter-center comparisons. | en_ZA |
dc.description.department | Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology | en_ZA |
dc.description.embargo | 2019-03-01 | |
dc.description.librarian | hj2018 | en_ZA |
dc.description.sponsorship | A PhD grant of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). | en_ZA |
dc.description.uri | http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jcomdis | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.citation | Bruneel, L., Speech outcomes following Sommerlad primary palatoplasty: Results of the Ghent University Hospital. Journal of Communication Disorders (2018), 72: 111-121, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2018.01.004. | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.issn | 0021-9924 (print) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1873-7994 (online) | |
dc.identifier.other | 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2018.01.004 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/64075 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_ZA |
dc.rights | © 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.. Notice : this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Communication Disorders . Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Communication Disorders, vol. 72, pp. 111-121, 2018. doi : 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2018.01.004. | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Cleft palate (CP) | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Speech | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Sommerlad palatoplasty | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Speech and language pathologist (SLP) | |
dc.subject | Children | |
dc.subject | Disorders | |
dc.subject | Lip | |
dc.subject | Sommerlad’s palatoplasty | |
dc.subject | Intravelar veloplasty | |
dc.subject | Insufficiency | |
dc.subject | Velopharyngeal | |
dc.subject | Palatal repair | |
dc.subject | Cleft audit protocol for speech (CAPS) | |
dc.subject | Pharyngeal flap surgery | |
dc.title | Speech outcomes following Sommerlad primary palatoplasty : results of the Ghent University Hospital | en_ZA |
dc.type | Postprint Article | en_ZA |