Speech intelligibility of laryngectomized patients who use different types of vocal communication

Modern methods of speech rehabilitation after a total laryngectomy have come to a great success by giving the patients a possibility to establish an intelligible and functional speech after an adequate rehabilitation treatment. The aim of this paper was to examine speech intelligibility of laryngect...

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Main Authors: Šehović Ivana, Petrović-Lazić Mirjana
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Published: Univerzitet u Beogradu - Fakultet za specijalnu edukaciju i rehabilitaciju 2016-01-01
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Online Access:http://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/1452-7367/2016/1452-73671602191S.pdf
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description Modern methods of speech rehabilitation after a total laryngectomy have come to a great success by giving the patients a possibility to establish an intelligible and functional speech after an adequate rehabilitation treatment. The aim of this paper was to examine speech intelligibility of laryngectomized patients who use different types of vocal communication: esophageal speech, speech with tracheoesophageal prosthesis and speech with electronic laringeal prosthesis. The research was conducted on a sample of 125 laryngectomized patients of both sexes, between 48 and 85 years of age. For the subjective assessment of speech intelligibility, we used the phonetically balanced text. In the paper we used the descriptive statistics methods (the arithmetic mean with standard deviation, as well as minimum and maximum). The differences between the groups were determined by the t-test for independent samples. Pirson's correlation coefficient was used to examine the correlation between the two variables. The examinees are statistically different by the results achieved on the speech intelligibility test. The esophageal patients have the highest scores (1.13±0.86), while the patients with the vocal prosthesis and patients who use electrolarynx have similar scores (0.14±0.35; 0.15±0.36). The differences of the analyzed values were statistically significant (p<0.01). The results obtained in this research have shown that the patients who use tracheoesophageal vocal prosthesis have better achievement on the speech intelligibility test comparing to the esophageal patients and patients who use electrolarynx.
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spelling doaj.art-4452322718e34f70afbfa0873b4c4cf92022-12-21T19:10:37ZengUniverzitet u Beogradu - Fakultet za specijalnu edukaciju i rehabilitacijuSpecijalna Edukacija i Rehabilitacija1452-73672406-13282016-01-0115219120510.5937/specedreh15-104821452-73671602191SSpeech intelligibility of laryngectomized patients who use different types of vocal communicationŠehović Ivana0Petrović-Lazić Mirjana1University of Belgrade, Faculty for Special Education and Rehabilitation, Belgrade, SerbiaUniversity of Belgrade, Faculty for Special Education and Rehabilitation, Belgrade, SerbiaModern methods of speech rehabilitation after a total laryngectomy have come to a great success by giving the patients a possibility to establish an intelligible and functional speech after an adequate rehabilitation treatment. The aim of this paper was to examine speech intelligibility of laryngectomized patients who use different types of vocal communication: esophageal speech, speech with tracheoesophageal prosthesis and speech with electronic laringeal prosthesis. The research was conducted on a sample of 125 laryngectomized patients of both sexes, between 48 and 85 years of age. For the subjective assessment of speech intelligibility, we used the phonetically balanced text. In the paper we used the descriptive statistics methods (the arithmetic mean with standard deviation, as well as minimum and maximum). The differences between the groups were determined by the t-test for independent samples. Pirson's correlation coefficient was used to examine the correlation between the two variables. The examinees are statistically different by the results achieved on the speech intelligibility test. The esophageal patients have the highest scores (1.13±0.86), while the patients with the vocal prosthesis and patients who use electrolarynx have similar scores (0.14±0.35; 0.15±0.36). The differences of the analyzed values were statistically significant (p<0.01). The results obtained in this research have shown that the patients who use tracheoesophageal vocal prosthesis have better achievement on the speech intelligibility test comparing to the esophageal patients and patients who use electrolarynx.http://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/1452-7367/2016/1452-73671602191S.pdfintelligibilityesophageal speechtracheoesophageal speechelectrolarynx
spellingShingle Šehović Ivana
Petrović-Lazić Mirjana
Speech intelligibility of laryngectomized patients who use different types of vocal communication
Specijalna Edukacija i Rehabilitacija
intelligibility
esophageal speech
tracheoesophageal speech
electrolarynx
title Speech intelligibility of laryngectomized patients who use different types of vocal communication
title_full Speech intelligibility of laryngectomized patients who use different types of vocal communication
title_fullStr Speech intelligibility of laryngectomized patients who use different types of vocal communication
title_full_unstemmed Speech intelligibility of laryngectomized patients who use different types of vocal communication
title_short Speech intelligibility of laryngectomized patients who use different types of vocal communication
title_sort speech intelligibility of laryngectomized patients who use different types of vocal communication
topic intelligibility
esophageal speech
tracheoesophageal speech
electrolarynx
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