General Comments: The article was written in a clear and thorough way making the information easy to sift through. More specifically, this was done by the section titles that were provided in the article. Through the section titles, the reader was able to identify what information would be presented next. Through the article, the reader discovered that middle ear problems and swallowing difficulties were symptoms of cleft palate, only 10% of individuals show all the symptomatic signs of cleft palate, and all the signs do not need to be present for a diagnosis of cleft palate. This is intriguing regarding how others are diagnosed if only 10% of individuals show signs of cleft palate.
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The speech samples consisted of isolated vowels (/a/, /i/, /u/), ten words with high pressure consonants, and five standard oral sentences. In the lab, the individuals were instructed to sit in upright positions while they had a substance instilled in the nasopharynx for better visualization of the contrast. The participants were asked to read the white sheet of paper with images that were amplified by an electric intensification, brightening the images recorded in the video camera. These images were then evaluated by three speech language pathologists by rating the pictures on a scale for videofluroscopic speech studies. The rating scale evaluated the structural and functional aspects of velopharyngeal mechanism which included velopharyngeal closure, velar length, velar thickness, height of the velum, and tongue motion. Each speech language pathologist who participated in the study were blindfolded and asked to rate the video samples based on the rating scale of velopharyngeal closure, velar length, velar thickness, height of the velum, and tongue
Title and Abstract: The title for the article is distinct …show more content…
The speech samples consisted of isolated vowels (/a/, /i/, /u/), ten words with high pressure consonants, and five standard oral sentences. In the lab, the individuals were instructed to sit in upright positions while they had a substance instilled in the nasopharynx for better visualization of the contrast. The participants were asked to read the white sheet of paper with images that were amplified by an electric intensification, brightening the images recorded in the video camera. These images were then evaluated by three speech language pathologists by rating the pictures on a scale for videofluroscopic speech studies. The rating scale evaluated the structural and functional aspects of velopharyngeal mechanism which included velopharyngeal closure, velar length, velar thickness, height of the velum, and tongue motion. Each speech language pathologist who participated in the study were blindfolded and asked to rate the video samples based on the rating scale of velopharyngeal closure, velar length, velar thickness, height of the velum, and tongue