Publications by authors named "Helene D Mautner"
Purpose: This study aimed to verify through an auditory-perceptual approach, whether an "open jaw" posture would result in improved speech quality for older adults.
Methods: Forty normal-hearing listeners (20 males; 20 females) aged between 18 and 47 listened to vowel segments and performed two separate tasks: identifying vowels and comparing vowel clarity. Stimuli included vowels segmented from a sentence ("We saw two cars.
Objectives: This study aimed to determine if the use of an "open jaw" posture in healthy aging adults would result in voice improvement detectable through acoustic and electroglottographic measurements.
Study Design: A convenience sampling strategy was used to recruit 85 participants, with at least five females and five males in each of four age groups, between age 35 and 50 years (35+), above 50 (50+), 60+, and 70+ years.
Methods: Participants sustained the vowel /a/ at three pitch levels (normal, low, and high) and repeated the test sentence "We saw two cars" in both a normal and an open jaw postures.