The main purpose of this study is to determine the treatment effectiveness of pharyngeal flap surgery by measuring speech outcome 1 year after surgery. The authors hypothesized that flap surgery is an effective technique for velopharyngeal inadequacy resulting in improved intelligibility, decreased hypernasality and nasalance scores and normal voice characteristics.
Speech outcome regarding overall intelligibility, articulation, resonance and voice in Flemish children a year after pharyngeal flap surgery. A pilot study.
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery and Speech and Language Pathology, Craniofacial Team, University Hospital Gent, Gent, Belgium. kristiane.vanlierde@ugent.be
