Effects of pubertal changes on the speech of persons with cleft palate.
The effects of puberty on the speech of persons with cleft palate and normal to moderate degrees of resonance distortion were investigated. Listeners were rated for resonance, articulation, and speech acceptability from recordings made prepuberty and postpuberty for 18 males who received no surgery during the time they went through puberty. Results suggest that changes were minimal and did not always result in speech improvement or deterioration.
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Achievement Rehabilitation Corp., Minnetouka, Minnesota.
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Moller
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D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011627:Puberty / Q000502:physiology*; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013064:Speech Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology; D013065:Speech Intelligibility; D014833:Voice Quality