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Transforming assessment of speech in children with cleft palate via online crowdsourcing.

PLoS ONE, 2020
OBJECTIVE:Speech intelligibility is fundamental to social interactions and a critical surgical outcome in patients with cleft palate. Online crowdsourcing is a burgeoning technology, with potential to mitigate the burden of limited accessibility to ...
Anne M Sescleifer, Caitlin A Francoisse, Janna C Webber, Jeffrey D Rector, Alexander Y Lin   +4 more
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Worth the Effort: Lessons for Discovery and Care From an Unusual Case of Gorlin Syndrome

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, Volume 197, Issue 9, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Gorlin‐Goltz Syndrome (GGS) is a rare autosomal dominant genetic disorder encompassing a diverse range of clinical manifestations, including congenital anomalies and predisposition to cancer. Pathogenic variants in PTCH1 and SUFU account for up to 79% and 6% of cases, respectively. Currently, an estimated 15%–27% of individuals with a clinical
V. Taliercio, J. Zhao, S. E. Boyden, R. Mao, P. Bayrak‐Toydemir, A. Pflaum, J. Palumbos, A. Andrews, E. E. Baldwin, C. Welt, Mackenzie Fait, Undiagnosed Diseases Network, L. D. Botto, D. Viskochil   +13 more
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Impact of delayed prosthetic treatment of velopharyngeal insufficiency on quality of life

Indian Journal of Dental Research, 2011
Palatopharyngeal dysfunction may take place when palatopharyngeal valve is unable to perform its own closing due to a lack of tissue (palatopharyngeal insufficiency) or lack of proper movement (palatopharyngeal incompetence).
Kaushal Kishor Agrawal, Balendra Pratap Singh, Pooran Chand, Chandra Bhusan Singh Patel   +3 more
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Pharyngeal obturador in individuals with cleft palate: is it enough to correct speech hypernasality?

, 2021
Introdução: É consenso na literatura que a hipernasalidade de pacientes com fissura palatina e diagnóstico de insuficiência velofaríngea seja eliminada após um procedimento físico (cirurgia secundária ou obturador faríngeo), por ser esta alteração ...
Rizatto, Ana Júlia dos Passos
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Hypernasality in singing among children with cleft palate: A preliminary study / Sabrina Peter [PDF]

, 2017
Background. Hypernasality is a common problem encountered by most children with cleft palate velopharyngeal insufficiency/ inadequacy (VPI), despite undergoing satisfactory palate repair with the absence of a fistula. Speech therapy has been advocated to
Sabrina , Peter
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Intravelar veloplasty with posterior pillar flap for velopharyngeal insufficiency correction in cleft palate patients: A prospective trial

Journal of Cleft Lip Palate and Craniofacial Anomalies
Introduction: Cleft palate is a very common congenital defect that disrupts velopharyngeal closure leading to some complications such as velopharyngeal insufficiency (VPI) and hypernasality.
H. Abdali, A. Sadeghi, Majid Kalbasi, M. Abedian   +3 more
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Perceptual and nasometric assessment of hypernasality after intravelar veloplasty for surgical management of velopharyngeal insufficiency: long-term effects

, 2014
Purpose to investigate the long-term effect of intravelar veloplasty for surgical management of velopharyngeal insufficiency (VPI) on hypernasality of individuals with repaired cleft palate.
Renata Paciello Yamashita (12824544), Andressa Sharllene Carneiro da Silva (12824547), Ana Paula Fukushiro (10700024), Inge Elly Kiemle Trindade (12824550)   +3 more
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Effect of listeners' linguistic background on perceptual judgements of hypernasality

, 2008
Background: Many speech and language therapists work in a multilingual environment, making cross-linguistic studies of speech disorders clinically and theoretically important.
Brown, S, Brown, S., Lee, Alice, Gibbon, Fiona   +3 more
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Influence of speech sample on perceptual judgement of hypernasality

, 2015
Proposição: Investigar a influência do tipo de amostra de fala, conversa espontânea ou repetição de sentenças, sobre o índice de concordância intra e interavaliadores.
Medeiros, Maria Natália Leite de
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Perceptual judgment of hypernasality and audible nasal emission in cleft palate speakers [PDF]

, 2015
Objective: The purpose of this study is to determine whether a novel, user-friendly rating system, visual sort and rate (VSR) provides comparable ratings to the currently used direct magnitude estimation (DME) rating system for rating perceptions of ...
Downing, Kerri
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