title: Nasalance scores for normal-speaking Turkish population.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this study was to obtain normative nasalance scores for adult and children subjects speaking Turkish language and obtain a reference for normality when nasality is evaluated.
  
  
  METHODS
  Mean nasalance scores were obtained from 35 normal-speaking children aged 7 to 13 years, and 125 adults aged 18 to 69 years during the repetition of 3 nasalance passages that were categorized according to the amount of nasal consonants (oral, oronasal, and nasal passages). The Nasometer (model 6400) was used to obtain nasalance scores for the 3 reading passages.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Group mean ± SD nasalance scores of children for oral passage, oronasal passage, and nasal passage were 15.14 ± 4.81, 37.76 ± 4.42, and 49.23 ± 6.95, respectively. Nasalance scores for the adult group were 13.46 ± 6.26, 37.84 ± 6.13, and 50.28 ± 7.77, respectively. There were significant differences in mean nasalance scores for oral versus nasal materials both for children and adult groups.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The present study provides normative nasalance scores for Turkish-speaking children and adults. The results indicated acceptable differentiation between oral and nasal materials.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Gulhane Military Medical School, Ankara, Turkey. omerkarakoc@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Omer
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Karakoc
authors.forename: Timur
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Akcam
authors.forename: Hakan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Birkent
authors.forename: Hasan Huseyin
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Arslan
authors.forename: Mustafa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gerek
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009666:Nose; D012016:Reference Values; D013062:Speech Articulation Tests; D014421:Turkey