Publications by authors named "Mona S Khodeir"

Background: Children with ADHD were found to have language impairment in many studies. The way they use language in their everyday life may be affected, namely, the pragmatic aspect of language. Measuring the affected parameters in all aspects of language will help to reach better rehabilitation.

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Objectives: The aim of this study was to carry out a systematic review of different surgical and nonsurgical lines of treatment of Reinke's edema to identify the effectiveness and the guidelines described to use each of them.

Methods: We searched PubMed and Coherence for randomized controlled trials and case reports studies did on adult humans aged from 18 to 80 years, from January 1997 to December 2018. We included studies that treated patients with Reinke's edema by one and/or combinations of the following interventions: cold steel microlaryngeal phonosurgery, microdebrider, CO laser, photoangiolytic laser, voice therapy, Steroid and Hyaluronidase injection.

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Objective: The aim of this study was to explore the magnitude of stuttering severity in the Egyptian Arabic speaking children who stutter (CWS) by corelating stuttering severity grades assessed by Bloodstein classification of stuttering severity (BLS) and by the stuttering severity instrument for children and adults-Arabic version (ASSI).

Methods: 58 Egyptian Arabic speaking CWS aged 5-9 years and 9 months, were selected conveniently upon inclusion and exclusion criteria from patients frequented at the Phoniatrics clinic of El-Demerdash hospital (Ain Shams University). Through an observational cross-sectional study, the selected children underwent the Ain Shams university assessment protocol of fluency disorders, including clinician's assessment of stuttering severity by BLS classification and ASSI.

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Background: Although diabetes mellitus is a well-researched systemic endocrinal disease, literature is scarce addressing the co-occurrence of oropharyngeal dysphagia with diabetes.

Objective: The aim of this work was to screen Egyptian diabetic patients for symptoms suggestive of oropharyngeal dysphagia using the validated Arabic version of the Eating Assessment Tool (A-EAT-10).

Participants And Methods: 200 Egyptian adult diabetic patients, aged from 18 to 59 years participated in the study.

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Objective: The aim of this study was to standardize an Egyptian Arabic Pragmatic Language Test (EAPLT) using linguistically and socially suitable questions and pictures in order to be able to address specific deficits in this language domain.

Participants And Methods: Questions and pictures were designed for the EAPLT to assess 3 pragmatic language subsets: pragmatic skills, functions, and factors. Ten expert phoniatricians were asked to review the EAPLT and complete a questionnaire to assess the validity of the test items.

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