Pediatric Dysphonia and the Access to Voice Therapy: A Study in Speech Therapy Services Available in a Capital City in the Northeast of Brazil.

Objectives: Defining the laryngeal and vocal alterations in the pediatric group studied in private speech therapy facilities; and estimating the time period between the problem being identified by the parents and the access to the proper provided services.

Methods: A cross-sectional analytical observational research with data collected from medical records by the speech therapist of each private facility. A written form was prepared and sent to the speech therapists of the 40 existing facilities.

Voice Formants in Individuals With Congenital, Isolated, Lifetime Growth Hormone Deficiency.

Objective: To analyze the voice formants (F1, F2, F3, and F4 in Hz) of seven oral vowels, in Brazilian Portuguese, [a, ε, e, i, ɔ, o, and u] in adult individuals with congenital lifetime untreated isolated growth hormone deficiency (IGHD).

Study Design: This is a cross-sectional study.

Methods: Acoustic analysis of isolated vowels was performed in 33 individuals with IGHD, age 44.

Hearing status in adult individuals with lifetime, untreated isolated growth hormone deficiency.

Objective: To evaluate the hearing status of growth hormone (GH)-naive adults with isolated GH deficiency (IGHD) belonging to an extended Brazilian kindred with a homozygous mutation in the GH-releasing hormone receptor gene.

Study Design: Cross-sectional.

Setting: Divisions of Endocrinology and Otorhinolaryngology of the Federal University of Sergipe.

Voice performance evaluation of street children from Aracaju, Brazil using perceptual-auditory and acoustic analyses.

Objective: To compare the voice performance of children involved in street labor with regular children using perceptual-auditory and acoustic analyses.

Methods: A controlled cross-sectional study was carried out on 7- to 10-year-old children of both genders. Children from both groups lived with their families and attended school regularly; however, child labor was evident in one group and not the other.

Vocal function and vocal discomfort in sheltered and non-sheltered 7- to 10-year-old school children in Aracaju, Brazil.

Objective: To compare vocal function, school performance, and vocal discomfort between sheltered and nonsheltered school children in Aracaju, Brazil.

Methods: A controlled cross-sectional study was carried out on 7- to 10-year-old children who attended school regularly. Two groups of children were studied: the study group (SG), with children who lived in a shelter, and the control group (CG) containing children who lived with their families.