NCT03966482

Semi-occluded Vocal Tract Exercise in Velopharyngeal Dysfunction in Patients With Cleft Palate

Exercise Of Semi-Occluded Vocal Tract In Velopharyngeal Dysfunction In Patients With Cleft Palate : Effects Of Short-Term

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 12 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Analyze the effect of SOVTE (Semi-occluded Vocal Tract Exercise), with high resistance tube, on the velopharyngeal mechanism, for speech rehabilitation of twelve patients with cleft palate with vocal alterations, after four weeks. The study was developed in the city of Porto Alegre, southern Brazil. The hypothesis of the study is that after four weeks of exclusive therapy with exercise it will be improvement in the voice of patients with cleft palate.

Detailed description

The study is an uncompared before-after clinical trial. All patients were submitted to videonasoendoscopy and had their vocal emissions recorded before and after the four weeks of speech therapy. These individuals were submitted to multidimensional evaluation comprised of analysis of images generated by specialized videonasoendoscopy software, analysis of speech emissions by perceptual-auditory evaluation and acoustic analysis, and vocal self-assessment.

Conditions

• Cleft Palate

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Group before-after	The group was submitted to four weeks of speech therapy intervention with Semiocluded vocal tract exercise. The 12 participants were evaluated before and after the intervention with a multidimensional evaluation comprised of analysis of images generated by specialized videonasoendoscopy software, analysis of speech emissions by perceptual-auditory evaluation and acoustic analysis, and vocal self-assessment.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-05-01
• Primary completion: 2017-10-26
• Completion: 2017-11-28
• First posted: 2019-05-29
• Last updated: 2019-05-29