Nasal air emission: assessment with graduated mirror. / Escape de ar nasal: avaliação com espelho graduado
AUTOR(ES)
Juliana Fracalosse Garbino
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2007
RESUMO
Objective: to investigate the clinical assessment of nasal air emission (NAE) in velopharyngeal dysfunction individuals, for the purpose of verifying: the agreement among the judges for the NAE conventional assessment, identifying the most common answers for speech activities given by the judges; which speech activity shows more relation to the general score given by the judges; and if there is association between the NAE conventional assessment scores and the results obtained during the Diagram of Transcription assessment. Design: A prospective analysis that compares two different ways of clinical assessment of NAE in individuals with velopharyngeal dysfunction. Setting: Physiology Laboratory, HRAC/USP. Participants: 82 individuals, 42 men and 40 women, from 7 to 48 years old, with velopharyngeal dysfunction due to palate cleft. Variables: The score related by the judges to the NAE, using the conventional assessment, besides the number of semicircle and area, representing the NAE on the Diagram of Transcription. Results and Conclusion: There was a strong agreement among the judges for the conventional assessment, also for the association between the conventional assessment and the Diagram of Transcription assessment, using the semicircles as well as the area values as a way of analysis. Thereby, when increasing NAE score, it also increases the number of semicircles and the fogging area.
ASSUNTO(S)
insuficiência velofaríngea velopharyngeal insufficiency disorders of speech fissura palatina distúrbios da fala fala speech palate cleft
