Andrew Kunihiro
Tanzania
Research Article
Speech and Swallow Kinematics of a Person with Congenital Aglossia
Author(s): Betty L McMicken, Shelley Von Berg, Long Wang, Andrew Kunihiro, Margaret Vento-Wilson and Kelly RogersBetty L McMicken, Shelley Von Berg, Long Wang, Andrew Kunihiro, Margaret Vento-Wilson and Kelly Rogers
Objective: This research study explored movement of key processes during speech and swallow of a person with congenital aglossia. It expands upon earlier studies that found a high degree of intelligibility among listeners for expressive speech by the person with congenital aglossia and seeks to identify the dynamics through which the articulators accomplish this phenomenon.
Methods: Positional movements of the mandible and hyoid bone and mylohyoid and tongue base for speech and swallow were compared with those movements obtained for people without aglossia.
Results: In this subject, the hyoid bone and mandible were strongly associated with movement of the pseudo tongue for both speech and swallow. This is markedly different from results of normal subjects, who show strong correlations between the hyoid bone and man.. View More»
