Evaluation of Dysphonia in a Children’s Choir
作者:
Montserrat Bonet,
Pere Casan,
期刊:
Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica
(Karger Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 46,
issue 1
页码: 27-34
ISSN:1021-7762
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1159/000266288
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Dysphonia;Choir children
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
This study isolates the voice problems of 99 (40 male, 59 female) children choir singers (age range: 8–14), by applying and validating a simple method for classifying the singing voice. The prevalence of dysphonia was 20.2%. A singing range of fewer than 18 semitones is considered to suggest dysphonia (sensitivity of 80% and specificity of 95%). The validity of the method and its ease of application are discussed. We conclude that voice classification is necessary for all children who sing and that phoniatric examination of dysphonic children is imperative, with special attention given to those whose voices are changin
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