A Cross-Sectional Study of Speech in 10-Year-Old Children with Cleft Palate: Results and Issues of Rater Reliability

2007 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Brunnegård ◽  
Anette Lohmander
Keyword(s):  
Cleft Palate ◽  
Soft Palate ◽  
Cleft Lip And Palate ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Air Leakage ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Perceptual Evaluation ◽  
Cleft Palate Speech

Objectives: To describe speech based on perceptual evaluation in a group of 10-year-old children with cleft palate. A secondary aim was to investigate the reliability of speech-language pathologists’ perceptual assessment of cleft palate speech. Design: Retrospective cross-sectional study in children with cleft palate. External raters made assessments from randomized speech recordings. Subjects: Thirty-eight children with unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP) or cleft palate only (CPO) and 10 children in a comparison group. Main Outcome Measures: Ratings of hypernasality, hyponasality, audible nasal air leakage, weak pressure consonants, and articulation. Exact agreement and weighted kappa values were used for reliability. Results: Hypernasality was found in 25% of children with a cleft of the soft palate (CSP), 33% of children with a cleft of the hard and soft palate (CHSP), and 67% of children with a UCLP. Similar results were found for audible nasal air leakage. Articulation errors were found in 6% of the CHSP group and 25% of the UCLP group, whereas no child in the CSP group had articulation errors. The reliability was moderate to good for different variables, with lowest values for hypernasality. Conclusions: Speech results in this series seem less satisfactory than those reported in other published international studies, but it is difficult to draw any certain conclusions about speech results because of large methodological differences. Further developments to ensure high reliability of perceptual ratings of speech are called for.

scholarly journals A Cross-Sectional Study: Are Myths on Cleft Lip and Palate Still Prevalent?

Cureus ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sravya Turlapati ◽  
Sai Krishna ◽  
Korutla U Deepak ◽  
Baggialaxmi Kanagaraja ◽  
Kanaparthi A Gayathri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cleft Lip ◽  
Cleft Lip And Palate ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional

scholarly journals Pilot epidemiological study of cleft lip and/or palate inh Kota Kinabalu, Sabah

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 86-91
Author(s):  
Chai Siew Cheng ◽  
SKL Jimeno ◽  
R Sasidaran ◽  
A Sergius
Keyword(s):  
Cleft Lip ◽  
Cleft Lip And Palate ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Queen Elizabeth Hospital ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Tertiary Center ◽  
Secondary Palate ◽  
Male Patients

Objective: To identify number of cases and the type of cleft lip and/or palate managed in government tertiary center (Queen Elizabeth Hospital) in Kota Kinabalu; and to analyze the associative factors of cleft lip and/or palate. Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional study carried out in Hospital Queen Elizabeth, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah from January 2011 to December 2012. Data from 162 new cases, which were referred for cleft lip and/or palate, were included in the study. Result: Cleft lip and palate was the most common type. While cleft lip with or without palate had higher preponderance towards male patients, secondary palate however was more common among female patients. These results were statistically significant. Conclusion: Further and larger scale study need to be carried out to identify the incidence of cleft lip and/or palate in Sabah, and its associated genetic and environmental risk factors. Early identification and intervention for cleft lip and palate need to be emphasized. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ajms.v4i3.8170   Asian Journal of Medical Sciences 4(2013) 86-91

scholarly journals Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary Skills and Their Correlates in Mandarin-Speaking Infants with Unrepaired Cleft Lip and/or Palate

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 3015
Author(s):  
Si-Wei Ma ◽  
Li Lu ◽  
Ting-Ting Zhang ◽  
Dan-Tong Zhao ◽  
Bin-Ting Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cleft Palate ◽  
Cleft Lip ◽  
Cleft Lip And Palate ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Receptive Vocabulary ◽  
Expressive Vocabulary ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Vocabulary Skills ◽  
Communicative Development

Background: Vocabulary skills in infants with cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) are related to various factors. They remain underexplored among Mandarin-speaking infants with CL/P. This study identified receptive and expressive vocabulary skills among Mandarin-speaking infants with unrepaired CL/P prior to cleft palate surgery and their associated factors. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study involving patients at the Cleft Lip and Palate Center of the Stomatological Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University between July 2017 and December 2018. The Putonghua Communicative Development Inventories-Short Form (PCDI-SF) was used to assess early vocabulary skills. Results: A total of 134 children aged 9–16 months prior to cleft palate surgery were included in the study. The prevalences of delays in receptive and expressive vocabulary skills were 72.39% (95% CI: 64.00–79.76%) and 85.07% (95% CI: 77.89–90.64%), respectively. Multiple logistic regression identified that children aged 11–13 months (OR = 6.46, 95% CI: 1.76–23.76) and 14–16 months (OR = 24.32, 95% CI: 3.86–153.05), and those with hard/soft cleft palate and soft cleft palate (HSCP/SCP) (OR = 5.63, 95% CI: 1.02–31.01) were more likely to be delayed in receptive vocabulary skills. Conclusions: Delays in vocabulary skills were common among Mandarin-speaking CL/P infants, and age was positively associated with impaired and lagging vocabulary skills. The findings suggest the necessity and importance of early and effective identification of CL/P, and early intervention programs and effective treatment are recommended for Chinese CL/P infants.

scholarly journals Closer to the Truth on National Fistula Prevalence After Unilateral Complete Cleft Lip and Palate Repair? The Cleft Care UK Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-13
Author(s):  
Arthur S. Yang ◽  
Bruce M. Richard ◽  
Andrew K. Wills ◽  
Osama Mahmoud ◽  
Jonathan R. Sandy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Cleft Lip ◽  
Outcome Measure ◽  
Cleft Lip And Palate ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Palatal Fistula ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Palate Repair

Objectives: To (1) determine the prevalence of nonperialveolar palatal fistula up to age 5 following repair of unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP) in the United Kingdom, (2) examine the association of palatoplasty techniques with fistula occurrence, and (3) describe the frequency of fistula repairs and their success. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: All 11 centralized regional cleft centers in the United Kingdom. Participants: Two hundred sixty-eight children born between 2005 and 2007 recruited by Cleft Care UK, a nationwide cross-sectional study of all 5-year-old children born with nonsyndromic UCLP. Main Outcome Measure: Nonperialveolar palatal fistula prevalence up to age 5. Results: Fistulas were found in 72 children (31.3%, 95% confidence interval: 25.4%-37.7%) and had no significant association with palate repair sequences. Twenty-four fistulas were repaired by age 5, 12 of which had data showing 10 (83.3%) successful repairs. Conclusion: The prevalence of nonperialveolar fistulas following primary palatoplasty of UCLP in the United Kingdom was higher than previously reported. This information should be part of the preoperative discussion with families. Prospective collection of the presence of fistulas will be necessary before we can associate the occurrence of fistulas with a surgeon, institution, surgical technique, or protocol of care.

scholarly journals A perceptual evaluation of resonance disorders in children with repaired unilateral cleft lip and palate in Hospital UniversitiSains Malaysia

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-289
Author(s):  
Aimi Syahidah Zulkipli ◽  
Mohammad Khursheed Alam ◽  
Evina Suriakant Patel ◽  
Sanjida Haque
Keyword(s):  
Cleft Lip ◽  
Cleft Lip And Palate ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Speech Sample ◽  
Perfect Agreement ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Rater Reliability ◽  
Perceptual Evaluation ◽  
Resonance Disorder

Background: In most literature regarding speech outcomes in children with repaired cleft lip and palate (CLP), exhibited resonance disorders despite having surgical repair. However, the types and severity of the resonance disorders vary from one individual to another. Thus, perceptual evaluation is important to determine the speech outcomes in individuals with repaired cleft lip and palate.Aim: The aim of this cross sectional study was to determine the types and severity of resonance disorders of children with repaired unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP) and describe the inter- and intra-rater reliability of perceptual evaluation of resonance disorders using GOS. SP.PASS’98. Four children with repaired UCLP in Hospital USM with ages ranging from 8 years old to 12 years old was included in this study. During data collection, history taking was first conducted, then participants’ speech sample was collected and lastly oral motor examination was conducted.Results: 50% of the speech sample was then duplicated for inter- and intraexaminer reliability investigations. Exact agreement and kappa values were used for reliability measures. Seventy five percent (75%) (3/4) participants exhibited hypernasality as the type of resonance disorder and 25% (1/4) participant had no evidence of hypernasality or any other types of resonance disorder. No other types of resonance disorders such as hyponasality, mixed resonance or cul-de-saq was noted in the participants. The severity of hypernasality ranged from mild to severe in the participants. Inter-rater reliability showed fair to almost perfect agreement and intra-rater reliability revealed almost perfect agreement.Conclusion: The results obtained from this study was more or less similar to our other studies conducted on the speech outcome of individuals with repaired UCLP. Although surgical intervention has been provided to these individuals, it is important that referrals be made to SLPs to evaluate their speech outcomes. This is to determine a proper management for the individual.Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science Vol.17(2) 2018 p.282-289

scholarly journals Age of Individuals Undergoing Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate Surgeries in Nepal

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (192) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shankar Man Rai ◽  
Kiran Nakarmi ◽  
Surendra Basnet ◽  
Pramila Shakya ◽  
Krishna Nagarkoti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cleft Palate ◽  
Cleft Lip ◽  
Cleft Lip And Palate ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Age At Surgery ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

Introduction: Timely repair of cleft lip and palate maximises the benefits of surgery. Developing countries have large number of adults with unrepaired clefts. The impact of a cleft program can be determined by observing the trends of lower age at surgery. Public Health Concern Trust, Nepal has been providing a comprehensive nationwide cleft service since 1999. This study was conducted to see any change in the age at surgery. Methods: A retrospective cross sectional study was conducted to analyse the data of all the individuals’ age at primary cleft surgery from July 1999 to June 2010. Mean and median age of individuals as well as the proportion of individuals operated on at the right age in different years were calculated and compared. Results: The median age for cleft lip surgery decreased from 100 to 24 months. Similarly the median age for cleft palate surgery decreased from 70 to 28 months. Proportion of surgeries carried out in the recommended age also increased. A change in the policy of the program reaching out to more remote areas and removing the age barrier for surgery resulted in older adults receiving surgery and increased median age especially for cleft palate repairs. Conclusions: A nationwide cleft program for a decade had a small impact on age at surgery. There are still many individuals who are missing the ideal age for surgery. The program needs to reach more remote areas. This information will be useful for governmental as well as non-governmental organizations working in the area of clefts. Keywords: age; cleft lip; cleft palate; Nepal.    

scholarly journals Caracterización de los pacientes con labio y paladar hendido y de la atención brindada en el hospital infantil universitario de manizales (Colombia), 2010./Study of clinical and epidemiological characteristics of patients with lip and palate treated in th

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingid Charry ◽  
Mónica lorena Aguirre ◽  
José jaime Castaño castrillón ◽  
Brenda juliana Gómez ◽  
Juliana Higuera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cleft Palate ◽  
Cleft Lip ◽  
Cleft Lip And Palate ◽  
Multidisciplinary Treatment ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Calidad De Vida ◽  
Epidemiological Characteristics

Objetivo: El labio y paladar hendido es la malformación más común de cabeza y cuello en el medio colombiano, es una patología multifactorial determinada por alteraciones genéticas y ambientales. Se da en uno de cada 900 nacidos vivos afectando a varones en una mayor proporción. El objetivo del presente estudio es registrar las características sociodemográficas, clínicas y de tratamiento de 118 pacientes con labioy paladar hendido atendidos en el Hospital Infantil Universitario “Rafael Henao Toro” de la ciudad de Manizales (Colombia).Materiales y Métodos: Estudio de corte transversal en pacientes que asistieron a la clínica de labio y paladar en el mencionado hospital.Resultados: Se encontró frecuencia del sexo masculino en un 55,1%, un 51,7% procedente del área urbana y en su mayoría de los estratos III y IV, la frecuencia más alta se presentó para labio y paladar hendido grado III con 36,4%. El esquema de tratamiento más utilizado fue la palatorrafia (63,6%) y la queiloplastia (69,5%).Conclusiones: La caracterización de los pacientes con labio y Paladar Hendido indica predominio por los pacientes con diagnóstico de labio y paladar hendido Grado III, igual distribución entre géneros, procedencia urbana en los cuales el estrato IV cuenta con la mayor frecuencia. Cabe destacar la importancia de un diagnóstico oportuno además un tratamiento multidisciplinario, que cuente con apoyo personal además del quirúrgico que se verá reflejado en una buena evolución y calidad de vida de los pacientes. Background: Cleft lip and cleft palate is the most common malformation of the headand neck of our environment, is a multifactorial disease determined by genetic andenvironmental factors. It occurs in one in every 900 live births, affecting males at agreater rate, today’s advances in terms of proposed treatment from the multidisciplinaryapproach, starting with a strict evaluation by pediatric to ensure that patients are in theright conditions to initiate surgical procedures.Materials and Methods: A cross sectional study. We recorded demographic characteristics,clinical and treatment of 118 patients who attended the lip and palate clinicat Children’s Hospital University of Manizales.Results: We found more frequently in males 55.1%, 51.7% from the urban area andmost of the layers III and IV, the highest incidence is presented for cleft lip and palategrade III in 36.4% The most commonly used treatment regimen was palate surgeryand cheiloplasty.Conclusions: The characterization of patients with cleft lip and cleft palate indicatespredominance for patients with cleft lip and palate grade III, gender equality, urbanhometown strata IV which has the highest frequency. Remarkable the importance ofearly diagnosis also appropriate multidisciplinary treatment, that has support in additionto the surgical staff will be reflected in a good performance and quality of life of patients

Effects of timing and number of palate repair on maxillary growth in complete unilateral cleft lip and palate patients

2004 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashok Kumar Jena ◽  
Ritu Duggal ◽  
Ajoy Roychoudhury ◽  
Hari Parkash
Keyword(s):  
Cleft Lip ◽  
Cleft Lip And Palate ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Inhibiting Factor ◽  
Palate Repair ◽  
Maxillary Growth ◽  
Growth Inhibiting

This cross-sectional study was conducted on 40 subjects to investigate the effects of timings and number of palate surgeries on maxillary growth in complete unilateral cleft lip and palate patients.The number of surgeries performed for palate repair was not an important growth inhibiting factor of maxilla, rather the age at which the initial palate surgery was performed for palate repair was an important factor in influencing maxillary growth.

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