Auditory-perceptual evaluation of voice: comparing different speech tasks to identify children with and without laryngeal lesions.

Purpose: To compare the vowel emission and number counting tasks in perceptual-auditory differentiation among children with and without laryngeal lesions.

Methods: Observational, analytical, and cross-sectional methods were used. Medical records of 44 children were selected from a database of an otorhinolaryngology service at a University Hospital and they were divided into groups: without laryngeal lesion (WOLL), and with laryngeal lesion (WLL), with 33 and 11 children.

Correlation between the reason for referral, clinical, and objective assessment of the risk for dysphagia.

Purpose: To correlate the reason for referral to speech therapy service at a university hospital with the results of clinical and objective assessment of risk for dysphagia.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional, observational, retrospective analytical and quantitative study. The data were gathered from the database, and the information used was the reason for referral to speech therapy service, results of clinical assessment of the risk for dysphagia, and also from swallowing videofluoroscopy.

Pharyngeal swallowing phase and chronic cough.

Introduction:  The act of swallowing depends on a complex and dynamic process which uses common structures to the act of breathing; respiratory problems can cause swallowing difficulties.

Aim:  To assess the swallowing pharyngeal phase in patients with chronic cough.

Method:  Retrospective study with 15 patients of both genders, patients with chronic cough and risk factors for aspiration defined by the pneumologic diagnosis.