Nasalance Scores for Normal-Speaking Turkish Population

作者：Karakoc Omer^*; Akcam Timur; Birkent Hakan; Arslan Hasan Huseyin; Gerek Mustafa

来源：Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, 2013, 24(2): 520-522.

DOI：10.1097/SCS.0b013e3182802361

• Nasalance
• normal-speaking
• Turkish

Objective: The aim of this study was to obtain normative nasalance scores for adult and children subjects speaking Turkish language and obtain a reference for normality when nasality is evaluated.
Methods: Mean nasalance scores were obtained from 35 normal-speaking children aged 7 to 13 years, and 125 adults aged 18 to 69 years during the repetition of 3 nasalance passages that were categorized according to the amount of nasal consonants (oral, oronasal, and nasal passages). The Nasometer (model 6400) was used to obtain nasalance scores for the 3 reading passages.
Results: Group mean +/- SD nasalance scores of children for oral passage, oronasal passage, and nasal passage were 15.14 +/- 4.81, 37.76 +/- 4.42, and 49.23 +/- 6.95, respectively. Nasalance scores for the adult group were 13.46 +/- 6.26, 37.84 +/- 6.13, and 50.28 +/- 7.77, respectively. There were significant differences in mean nasalance scores for oral versus nasal materials both for children and adult groups.
Conclusions: The present study provides normative nasalance scores for Turkish-speaking children and adults. The results indicated acceptable differentiation between oral and nasal materials.

• 出版日期2013-3
• 单位中国人民解放军军事医学科学院