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Objective To investigate the effects of posterior focus on the voice quality of hearing-impaired children.Methods A total of 15 cases of 3~6 years old hearing-impaired children with posterior focus and 20 cases of 3~6 years old without oral resonance disorders were included in this study.Fundamental frequency (F0), frequency standard deviation (F0SD), fundamental frequency perturbation (jitter), amplitude perturbation (shimmer) and normalized noise energy (NNE) on each group of children of /(ae)/ were extracted and analyzed by Dr.Voice.Results Hearing-impaired children with posterior focus problems mainly showed the voice disorder of the hyperthyroidism type.The abnormal rate of shimmer values was the highest of hearing-impaired children with posterior focus, followed by F0, jitter and F0SD,and the minimum was NNE.The average value of the voice parameters was greater than hearing-impaired children without oral resonance disorders.The jitter and shimmer of children with posterior focus showed significant differences (P<0.05) compared to the hearing-impaired children without oral resonance disorders.Conclusion Children with posterior focus have a high rate of voice disorders and mainly change the voice jitter and shimmer.
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Objective To compare the oral resonance differences between normal children and children with spastic cerebral palsy,and to explore the oral resonance characteristics of children with spastic cerebral palsy.Meth-ods A total of 15 cases of preschool children with spastic cerebral palsy and 25 cases of normal preschool children were included in this study.The first and second formants on each group of children of Chinese vowels/a/,/i/,/u/core,were extracted and analyzed by Dr speech software.Results There were no significant difference of/a/F1,/a/F2,/u/F1 between two groups (P>0.05);/i/F1 and/u/F2 had a significant difference (P<0.05);/i/F2 had a high degree of statistical significance (P<0.01).Conclusion Children with spastic cerebral palsy are prone to oral resonance while most oral resonance disorder of children with cerebral palsy is post focusing and mixed oral res-onance disorder;/i/F2 and/u/F2 can provide a meaningful reference for speech and oral resonance disorders evalua-tion of children with cerebral palsy.