Effects of a conservative in-patient voice treatment on the voice-related self-concept.

Purpose: Observational study to determine if the voice-related self-concept as measured via the Fragebogen zur Erfassung des Stimmlichen Selbstkonzepts FESS (questionnaire for the assessment of the voice self-concept) can be improved through in-patient voice therapy.

Methods: 234 female and 80 male patients that underwent an intensive 3- to 4-week in-patient voice treatment due to varying types of dysphonia. After imputation of missing items but not missing questionnaires, 255 patients were eligible for FESS evaluation, 313 for VHI-12 evaluation.

Cross-Validation and Normative Values for the German Vocal Tract Discomfort Scale.

Purpose The Vocal Tract Discomfort Scale (VTD Scale) is a self-rating questionnaire investigating physical symptoms in the larynx associated with vocal pathology. The aim of this work was to investigate the reliability, validity, sensitivity, and specificity of the first German version and to provide normative data with thresholds for pathology and a scaling scheme. Study Design A retrospective multicenter study was performed.

[Long-term course after inpatient speech therapy: educational and language development of children with severe specific language impairment (SLI)].

Background: Studies from primarily English-speaking countries have shown that specific language impairments can lead to disadvantages in educational and professional development. Corresponding studies for Germany have not been published. This study surveys the educational and language outcomes of adolescents and young adults who were treated in an inpatient setting during childhood.

[Outcome of Phoniatric Rehabilitation of Dysphagia in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer].

Surgical and nonsurgical management options for head and neck cancer frequently lead to impaired swallowing. Swallowing outcome can be assessed using subjective measures like inventories or applying clinical assessments concerning food selection, eating duration or the necessity of a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) and instrumental assessments like fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES).The objective of this study was to investigate the outcomes of an in-patient rehabilitation in patients with dysphagia after the treatment of head and neck cancer.

The Articulation Handicap Scale with 12 items (AHS-12): a short form of the Articulation Handicap Index (AHI).

Objective: The objective is to produce a short instrument for measuring the subjectively experienced articulation handicap, i.e. the extent to which physical, functional, and emotional handicaps caused by a physical deficit are subjectively experienced.