2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

The setting of the objective reference value for diagnosis of hypernasality

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21700538
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Rehabilitation science/Welfare engineering
Research Institution	Kagoshima University
Principal Investigator	GOMI Akinori Kagoshima University, 医歯学総合研究科, 助教 (10325798)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2010
Keywords	言語聴覚療法 / nasalance score / 鼻咽腔閉鎖不全 / 健常者
Research Abstract	I investigated nasalance scores (NS) of the normal Japanese speaker for the purpose of making a clinical index to be able to evaluate a nasopharyngeal function objectively. 124 men and women without the abnormality systemically in the oral cavity region were investigated. Also, 25 normal children investigated it in total for the purpose of conducting the comparison between adults and children. Because NS accepts sex differences, and the comparison with adults and children showed a subject sound showing a significant difference, the reference value of NS divides adults and children and thinks that the adults should do it according to men and women.

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