Speech-language pathologists planning intervention programs for high school students with voice disorders are faced with the problems of changing student attitudes and dealing with general societal apathy concerning the importance of effective voice use. This article introduces a series of papers addressing the unique developmental needs of the…

College students (n=465) rated 5 descriptions: 1 portraying an individual without a disorder and 4 depicting various communicative disorders. The descriptions with no disorder and with a language disorder were rated significantly lower in ambition than those depicting stuttering, voice, or articulation disorders. Geographical location and age of…

information is also provided regarding additional factors that might contribute to the development of voice disorders.Over 3 million teachers in the United States use their voice as a primary tool of trade and are thought to be at higher risk for occupation-related voice disorders than the general population. However, estimates regarding the…

A large percentage of patients who have undergone laryngectomy to treat advanced laryngeal cancer rely on an electrolarynx (EL) to communicate verbally. Although serviceable, EL speech is plagued by shortcomings in both sound quality and intelligibility. This study sought to better quantify the relative contributions of previously identified…

Chapter 3 of "Education of Exceptional Children, a review of the literature for the 3-year period since the issuance of "REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH, Volume 36, No. 1 February 1966.

One hundred thirty-three kindergarten through sixth-grade classroom teachers in four school districts completed questionnaries designed to determine whether they would be more likely to refer a boy than a girl with an identical communication disorder. (Author/PHR)

This article describes an approach to the treatment of young children whose speech problems are classified in the category of "persistent sound system disorder." The approach fosters development of stimulability skills through broadening of the phonetic inventory early in the treatment process. A case study illustrates treatment…

Part 1 of this paper recommends procedures and standards for the acoustic analysis of voice in individuals with dysarthria. In Part 2, acoustic data are reviewed for dysarthria associated with Parkinson disease (PD), cerebellar disease, amytrophic lateral sclerosis, traumatic brain injury, unilateral hemispheric stroke, and essential tremor.…

Data were collected on 731 patients (age birth to 18) at a children's hospital otolaryngology clinic. Most frequent laryngeal pathologies were subglottic stenosis, vocal nodules, laryngomalacia, and vocal fold paralysis. Laryngeal pathologies were more common to males than females, were most common in the youngest patients, and were distributed…

In a screening of 847 children (ages 6-10), 203 children were identified as showing a voice deviation. Five years later, 22 percent of the available children originally identified as having a voice disorder still showed a voice disorder. Results indicated that some children's voice disorders are not eliminated through maturation alone. (Author/JDD)

A national survey of 145 school-based speech-language pathologists found that more than 80% did not have vocal abuse prevention programs, primarily because of time constraints and low priority assigned to voice problems. Existing programs were primarily for elementary asymptomatic and symptomatic children. Characteristics associated with…

Eighty-three voice disorder therapists' ratings of statements regarding voice therapy practices indicated that vocal nodules are the most frequent disorder treated; vocal abuse and hard glottal attack elimination, counseling, and relaxation were preferred treatment approaches; and voice therapy is more effective with adults than with children.…

Thirty-six female cheerleaders and their advisors from four high schools participated in the development and evaluation of a preventative vocal hygiene program designed to communicate information about voice and vocal abuse. Pretest/posttest comparison indicated a significant improvement in participants' knowledge and awareness of vocally abusive…

Methods to explore and modify adolescents' vocal self-perception in clinical intervention are presented. These methods include an attitudinal questionnaire, procedures for audiotaping and videotaping in vocal self-confrontation, and vocal self-assessment of magnitude change in voice production. (Author/JDD)