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Quantitative Assessment of Nasal Emission During Pronunciation for the Hearing Impaired Children and Normally Hearing Children
Luka Bonetti
Sažetak
In this paper, comparison of the results of quantitative assessment of nasal emission produced during pronunciation of
sentences with and without nasal consonants was carried out for the group of hearing impaired children (N=11) and the group of
normally hearing children (N=12) by using NasalView system. The relationship between nasal emission, phonation characteristics,
speech tempo and pure tone average was also observed. Average nasalance percent during pronunciation of sentences without
nasal consonants differed significantly between the two groups of children, as well as the average speech rate, but no general
relationship was found between nasalance scores, vocal pitch control, speech tempo and pure tone average. The results suggest
that the ability of observed children with hearing loss to control velopharingeal activity is limited, but present, and that it does
not depend on the level of phonation control or the control of the speech rate, but rather on individual factors (quality of residual
hearing and the successfulness in its use). It is also evident that observed children with hearing loss have certain potential to
develop or improve the control of velopharingeal activity in the process of speech and hearing rehabilitation.
Ključne riječi
nasalance; hearing loss; speech tempo; phonation
Hrčak ID:
16737
URI
Datum izdavanja:
1.10.2006.
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