title: The relationship between adience-abience scale scores and judged communication proficiency of alaryngeal speakers.
abstract: Fifteen esophageal speakers and 15 artificial larynx speakers were administered the Hutt Adaptation of the Bender-Gestalt Test (HABGT): Adience-Abience Scale. Adience was defined as the individual's tendency to be motivated to adapt to new experiences that effect his physical functioning. Conversely, abience was defined as the individual's tendency to avoid or be inhibited from adapting to new experiences that effect his physical functioning. Audio-tape recordings were made of each speaker and used to determine verbal communication proficiency by six speech pathologists. Results indicated that the HABGT: Adience-Abience Scale was able to differentiate between the two groups of alaryngeal speakers, as well as relate to their verbal communication proficiency.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001538:Bender-Gestalt Test; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013071:Speech, Alaryngeal / Q000523:psychology*; D013072:Speech, Esophageal / Q000523:psychology; D013637:Tape Recording