Of 121 consecutive outpatients seen in an ENT clinic who received a diagnosis of functional dysphonia, 71 who were referred to the speech therapy department were interviewed. Sixty one (86%) were women, and the mean age of the group was 47.6 yr. The commonest voice disorder was huskiness ...
Speech Wave Aperiodicities at Sustained Phonation in Functional Dysphoniadoi:10.1159/000265708Klingholz F.KlinikMartin F.KlinikKargerFolia PhoniatKlingholz, F, Martin, F (1983) Speech wave aperiodicities at sustained phonation in functional dysphonia. Folia Phoniatr 35: pp. 322-327...
2,3 Patients also present to specialties other than neurology with visual,4 hearing and speech symptoms (typically a whispering dysphonia). Making the diagnosis History Avoid making a diagnosis based on the history alone: physical examination or observation of attacks plays a key role. The ...
At the end day five of rTMS, his speech markedly improved with no complications to report. Nevertheless, he persisted with residual paraphasia after his therapy. Figure 6 TMS strategy for patient presenting with moderate expressive aphasia secondary to glioblastoma. (a) Preoperative MRI (left) ...
The Cologne Disease Score (CDS) is a clinical staging system for children with lymphatic malformations of the head and neck based on morbidity items disfigurement, dysphagia, dysphonia, and dyspnea. Moreover, an observer statement toward progression contributes to the CDS [4]. De Serres et al. ...
Functional dysphonia during mental imagery: Testing the trait theory of voice disor- ders. J. Speech Lang. Hear. Res. 51, 1405–1423 (2008). 13. Park, K. & Behlau, M. Signs and symptoms of autonomic dysfunction in dysphonia individuals. J. Soc. Bras. Fonoaudiol. 23, 164–169 (2011)...
Thus, it could be speculated that the occurrence of neurological manifestation (e.g. postural tremor, dysphonia and dystonia) in WD may be associated with the disruption of the cortex-SMA-PMC-anterior horn loop or cerebello-thalamo-cortical motor pathway or disruptions between networks. It was ...
skills of speech therapists are acquired in a haphazard fashion, it is advocated that clinical psychologists develop a training and consultative role for speech therapy, equipping therapists with additional psychological skills, leading to more effective treatment for patients with functional dysphonia.doi...
dysphoniainterventionphysiologyThe hyperventilation syndrome and its clinical symptoms are presented. A project aimed at discovering whether hyperventilators were to be found among patients diagnosed as suffering from functional dysphonia and attending a speech therapy clinic is described. The existence of ...
Last year at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary over 190 new patients presented with dysphonia (hoarseness) and were referred to speech and language therapists for voice therapy. Extrapolation from these data suggests that up to 40 000 such patients are referred and treated annually in Britain. A ...