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FIGURE 5-1 Classification of velopharyngeal inadequacies by
etiology. AOS, apraxia of speech (acquired); CAS, childhood
apraxia of speech; CVA, cerebrovascular accident; HPCs, high
pressure consonants; TBI, traumatic brain injury. (Modified from Trost-
Cardamone JE: Coming to terms with VPI: a response to Loney and Bloem. Cleft
Palate J 26:68-70, 1989; and Peterson-Falzone SJ, Trost-Cardamone JE, Karnell MP,
Hardin-Jones MA: The clinician's guide to treating cleft palate speech. St. Louis:
Mosby, 2006.)
The third category includes cases in which the speaker has in some way mislearned the oral versus nasal airflow feature of speech production, as in the paerns of phoneme-specific nasal emission (PSNE) and nasal emission that persists postoperatively despite adequate closure ability. In both instances, the speaker intentionally directs airflow into and through the nasal cavity. This type of
velopharyngeal mislearning is seen both in speakers with clefts and speakers with noncleft VPI. This category also includes speakers whose use of
compensatory articulations, especially gloal stops and pharyngeal fricatives and stops, actually prevents or interferes with velopharyngeal closure, as first documented in imaging studies by Henningsson and
Isberg (1986, 1991). Because these gloal and pharyngeal gestures are
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produced below the VP port, they effectively ignore or bypass the port and cause it to remain open. The oral/nasal speech errors observed in some deaf and hearing-impaired speakers that primarily alter resonance also are subsumed under this category of mislearning (Coulton and
Crooker, 1968, Fletcher and Daly, 1976; Fletcher et al., 1999).
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Brief Review of Normal Velopharyngeal Closure
The impact of a cleft palate or other causes of VPI on speech is best understood against a backdrop of normal VP closure. Before we consider how VPI negatively affects speech resonance and articulation, we present this short review of normal VP closure.
Normal velopharyngeal closure involves movement of the soft palate, pharyngeal walls, or both the soft palate and pharyngeal walls simultaneously, to seal off or separate the nasal cavity from the oral cavity. It is a predominantly sphincteric activity in which, for most speakers, the soft palate/velum moves up and back and the lateral pharyngeal walls move inward. Many years ago, Croft and colleagues
(1981) described four paerns of closure seen in normal speakers, based
on the relative movement contributions of (1) the velum moving up and back, (2) the lateral pharyngeal walls (LPWs) moving inward, and (3) the posterior pharyngeal wall (PPW) moving forward. Their findings changed our conceptualization of VP closure from a “trap-door” mechanism (velum to PPW or adenoid pad) to a “sphincteric” closure activity. Sphincteric endoscopic views of the four paerns are illustrated in Figure 5-2. They are as follows:
1. Coronal (in which the velum is the prime mover)
2. Sagial (in which the LPWs are the prime movers)
3. Circular (in which movement contribution from the velum and LPWs is approximately equal)
4. Circular with Passavant's ridge (in which the velum, LPWs and PPW all make about equal contributions to closure)
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FIGURE 5-2 Velopharyngeal valving patterns. (From Croft CB,
Shprintzen RJ, Rakoff SJ: Patterns of velopharyngeal valving in normal and cleft palate
subjects: a multiview video-fluoroscopic and endoscopic study. Laryngoscope 91:265-
271, 1981.)
These paerns also have been identified in speakers with repaired cleft palates, with coronal the most common across both groups.
Videonasendoscopy studies are done with the physician or clinician facing the patient. However, the view in this illustration is “in reverse.” It is as if you were standing behind the individual and looking directly down on the velopharyngeal port, so anterior is toward the top of the illustration, and posterior is toward the boom. The curve in the top of each figure in the left column represents the tip of the velum; the boom of each figure is the posterior pharyngeal wall, with the lateral pharyngeal walls to either side. The arrows indicate relative participation in closure; the larger the arrow, the greater the contribution. Coronal and sagial paerns are so named because the closure configuration follows the coronal or sagial plane of the body, respectively.
The main muscles responsible for VP closure are the levator veli palatini (elevates and retracts the velum), superior pharyngeal constrictor (moves the LPWs inward or medially and the PPW forward), uvulus or musculus uvulae (adds bulk or thickness to the dorsal surface of the velum facilitating firm closure), and palatopharyngeus (may narrow or constrict the VP port; has a less significant role in closure). This is admiedly a simplistic description of the muscular intricacies of velopharyngeal closure. Researchers have provided various forms of
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data on the role that each of these paired sets of muscles plays in the closing and opening of the VP port. However, the levator veli palatini is without question the prime mover in velopharyngeal closure. Figure 5-3 shows the muscles that contribute to sphincteric closure.
FIGURE 5-3 Muscles of velopharyngeal closure. (Modified from
Kummer AW: Cleft palate and craniofacial anomalies: effects on speech and
resonance, ed 2, Clifton Park, NJ, 2008, Thomson Delmar Learning, p. 14.)
In young children, “velopharyngeal” closure is often “veloadenoidal” closure. The adenoid pad typically reaches its maximum size sometime between 7 and 10 years of age and then begins to involute (gradually disappear). In youngsters with normal velar length and mobility, the disappearance of the pad is of no consequence. However, the loss of the adenoid pad may uncover a previously undetected physical problem such as a short or hypotonic velum. Similarly, youngsters with submucous cleft palates and no visible intraoral signs may be asymptomatic until their adenoid pad disappears and their speech reveals the problem. Of course, adenoid tissue can also cause a problem if it is large enough (in any child) to obstruct the airway.
Although forward movement of the PPW in speech is often found in normal speakers, it is worth noting that a shelflike projection of the
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PPW toward the velum often is seen in speakers with repaired palates or congenitally short palates during aempted VP closure. This is termed “Passavant's ridge” or “Passavant's pad” (Fig. 5-4). Historically, researchers in the 1970s argued about whether this was the action of the superior pharyngeal constrictor or the result of a pulling action performed by the levator that creates this shelf. For many decades Passavant's ridge was considered to be a compensatory action employed by speakers with clefts, but the truth is that we do not know how often it may occur in speakers with normal velopharyngeal anatomy.
FIGURE 5-4 Passavant's ridge (PR) as a primary source of
velopharyngeal narrowing or closure. A, Velar eminence to
Passavant' s ridge. B, Vertical portion of velum to Passavant' s
ridge. C, Uvula to Passavant' s ridge. (From Glaser ER, Skolnick ML,
McWilliams BJ, Shprintzen RJ: The dynamics of Passavant' s ridge in subjects with
and without velopharyngeal insufficiency: a multiview video fluoroscopic study. Cleft
Palate J 16:24, 1979.)
No inferences about VP function during speech can be made from VP function in swallowing. Uninformed clinicians (and radiologists) should not be misled if dynamic imaging studies of swallow show VP closure
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y g g during this vegetative, nonspeech activity. Swallowing and speech are programmed differently in human neuromotor function. See Chapter 9 on instrumental assessment of VP function.
See the Evolve site for a brief PowerPoint presentation on normal VP closure.
For those readers who may need to refresh the details of speech anatomy and physiology, you may also want to revisit more detailed material on velopharyngeal closure for speech. You may also find these resources, listed in the References to this chapter, helpful: Jones (2012); Zemlin (1998).
Impact of VPI on Speech Resonance
By definition, VPI/VPD causes abnormal coupling of oral and nasal cavities, and this results in excessive nasal resonance, or hypernasality, on vowels and vocalic consonants, the oral sonorants.
Definition of Resonance
In this discussion, resonance is used to describe both the perceptual and physical aributes of speech, although the reader should understand that resonance actually reflects a physical phenomenon (Peterson-
Falzone, et al., 2010, p. 221). Physically, speech resonance is the result of
the vocal tract's transfer function of the tone produced at the larynx. The vocal tract functions as a selective filter for the complex tone generated by the vocal folds, thus enhancing some harmonics in this tone, ignoring others, and actively suppressing others. The acceptable product is one that is perceived to have an adequate balance of oral and nasal resonance. Although this adequate balance varies across languages, most speech resonance for English vowels and vocalic consonants is predominantly oral (produced with oral cavity energy enhancement) with some contribution of nasal resonance. Resonance is a speech parameter that has a range of acceptability and is perceived along a continuum. It therefore eludes a singular reference point that can be designated as “normal.” On the other hand, as you well know, our ears do alert us to resonance deviations or abnormalities along this continuum.
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Hypernasality
Too much nasal resonance results in hypernasal speech. There is excessive nasal energy enhancement of vowels, the glides /w, j/ and the liquids /l, r/. Collectively, glides and liquids comprise the low-oral­pressure consonants of English and also are referred to as oral sonorants or approximants. The high long vowels /u/ and /i/ are especially vulnerable to becoming hypernasalized when there is VPI. Hypernasality is transcribed with the diacritic /~/ placed above the
affected target, as in /
/ or /ũ/. As severity of hypernasality increases, we may hear nasalized voiced consonants, and in its more severe form, the distinctiveness between oral pressure consonants (especially the voiced oral stops, /b, d, g/) and their nasal counterparts is lost (e.g., b sounds like m, d sounds like n). Most hypernasality in speakers with repaired clefts is obligatory; it has a physical, as opposed to a learned, basis.
Obligatory speech errors must be distinguished from those that are more optional and learned (Golding-Kushner, 2001; Trost-Cardamone,
1990). Cleft palate speech includes both obligatory errors and optional/learned errors. Obligatory errors are physically based; they result from structural problems such as VP insufficiency and fistulas or they may be neurogenic, and both etiologies require physical management. Optional/learned errors are habituated errors that are the result of early speech mislearning and persist in the context of adequate velopharyngeal closure, and they require speech remediation. Obligatory errors are also characterized as passive errors because they are the unavoidable result or natural consequence of velopharyngeal inadequacy. By contrast, learned errors are characterized as active errors because they are understood to be strategies developed to overcome the impact of velopharyngeal inadequacy on speech sound production (Huers and Bronsted, 1987; Harding and Grunwell, 1998; Sell et al., 1994, 1999; among others).
Although most hypernasality is caused by (persisting) VPI, a sufficiently large fistula can also be the source (Henningsson and Isberg,
1987; Shelton and Blank, 1984). Fistulas also can contribute to
velopharyngeal dysfunction or can increase existing VPI and therefore aggravate the hypernasality (Henningsson and Isberg, 1987; Isberg and
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Henningsson, 1987; Karling et al., 1993). In addition, mouth opening,
tongue height and front-to-back position tend to influence perceived hypernasality (Cullinan and Counihan, 1971; Falk and Kopp, 1968;
McDonald and Baker, 1951). A more closed mouth and a higher more
backed tongue posture all tend to aggravate hypernasality.
Audio examples of hypernasal speakers are provided in Audio 5-1, Audio 5-2, and Audio 5-3. Video 5-1
shows a school-age child with a repaired cleft and pervasive hypernasality, passive nasal fricatives, and consistent nasal grimacing. Nevertheless, except for the nasal fricatives, he exhibits good articulation skills.
Other Resonance Deviations
Individuals with repaired cleft palate may present with resonance deviations other than hypernasality. These include hyponasality, mixed nasality, and cul-de-sac resonance.
Hyponasality
Too lile nasal resonance results in hyponasal speech affecting vowels, sonorants/liquids and glides and also in denasalized nasal consonants, making them perceptually similar to their oral stop counterparts /b, d, g/. Hyponasality results when the nasal airway itself is partially blocked, as with a deviated septum, or when the posterior entrance to the airway is partially blocked, as with a large adenoid. Hyponasality is indicated by the diacritic /
/ placed above the affected target; for
example, /
/ or / /. In clinical practice, the terms hyponasality and denasality are used interchangeably. Technically speaking, however, if blockage is complete, denasality results, with similar but more severe impact on speech resonance. For example, the nasal consonant targets become indistinguishable from their homorganic oral stops.
The important clinical issue here is that hyponasal or denasal resonance can perceptually mask any underlying VPI. Once the causative condition (e.g., head cold, allergy, hypertrophied adenoid) clears, the VPI may be revealed. As the clinician treating the child, you do not want to make an incorrect judgment regarding velopharyngeal status. This is why it may not be possible to make a reliable perceptual judgment on resonance if the child has a cold or allergy, and so forth, at
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the time of a visit. It also why it is helpful to obtain various types of instrumental assessments: radiographic films, imaging studies (e.g., nasopharyngoscopy, videofluoroscopy), and more objective aerodynamic and acoustic data and why it is so important that children with cleft palate are followed regularly by a team of specialists so that both change and stability can be documented and treatment planned accordingly.
Video 5-2
shows a child with a repaired cleft lip and palate who has hyponasality caused by adenoid hypertrophy. As you will hear, he also uses gloal stops.
Mixed Nasality
Mixed nasality in speech is “… resonance characterized by elements of both hypernasality and hyponasality” (Peterson-Falzone, et al., 2010, p.
222). In individuals with cleft palate, mixed nasality is often heard in speakers with pharyngeal flaps or in those who wear a speech appliance (a rare occurrence at this time). In most instances, mixed nasality results when increased nasal resistance affects, but does not eliminate, nasal resonance on vowels or nasal consonants.
Cul-de-Sac Resonance
This variation of hyponasality differs in place of obstruction and impact on speech. The term “cul-de-sac” comes from the French, meaning “blind pouch.” Speech sounds muffled. You can simulate this by repeating “mi mi mi mi” or “nu nu nu nu” first with nostrils open and then with nostrils pinched closed. The sound is trapped by the anterior nasal cavity constriction. A common cause of cul-de-sac resonance is a markedly deviated septum.
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