The analysis of velopharyngeal closure and speech intelligibility in children with cleft palate who speak Guan-gxi Cuengh language
Abstract：Objective To evaluate velopharyngeal closure situation in children with postoperation of the cleft palate who speak Guangxi Cuengh language using nasopharyngeal fiberscope( NPF) and analyse the rate of velopha-ryngeal incompetence( RVPI) , detect speech intelligibility( SI) and observe the situation of speech improvement after cleft palate surgery and to give target treatments for improving the level of cleft palate treatment.Methods Twenty children with cleft palate(10 boys, 10 girls, 3~6 years) who speak Cuengh language were divided into two groups. They were examined using NPF respectively after 3 or 6 months′operation.Velopharyngeal closure function was re-corded respectively when pronounced a, e, i, o, u, w or not.SI was analyzed.Results The children who pro-nounced the cuengh( a, e, i, o, u, w) after 6 months,training had significantly lower RVPI( a, e, i, o, u, w) than they did after 3 months, training(P<0.05).Compared with preoperative SI, the postoperative SI was significantly different(P<0.001).There was no obvious difference of SI between 3 and 6 months after the operation(P>0.05). Conclusion With systemic speech trainings and effective human interventions, the RVPI and SI could be improved to some extents for children with cleft palate.
Keywords：Nasopharyngeal fiberscope( NPF)Rate of velopharyeal incompetence( RVPI)Speech in-telligibility( SI)Speech training
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 387-390 )