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Impact of VPI on Articulation
Not all individuals with cleft palate develop deviant speech articulation. For many, the initial palatoplasty provides an adequate VP closure mechanism that minimizes the risk of early or prelinguistic speech sound mislearning. Such early mislearning (of airflow direction and articulatory placements) may be subsequently incorporated into the child's phonemic inventory and early lexicon. (See Chapter 4 in this text and Peterson-Falzone, et al., 2010, Chapter 7, for a more comprehensive review and summary of early speech development.) Based on their review of the literature, Peterson-Falzone et al. (2001, 2010) concluded that normal articulation can be expected in approximately 25% of preschoolers with cleft palate who receive team care, and some individuals continue to demonstrate articulation problems in adolescence. Many of these misarticulations will be due to dental and occlusal problems. Lohmander (2011) summarized the findings from 34 studies of speech outcome after primary surgery over a 25-year period (1984 to 2010); all of these studies employed (audio or video) speech recordings for data collection and analysis. Participants included preschoolers through young adults, and nine different languages were represented. Speech outcomes were categorized in terms of (1) speech accuracy (presence or absence of audible nasal emission, hypernasality, and articulation errors) and (2) speech intelligibility. The most information was available on 5 year olds, and the findings were generally compatible with outcomes reported in frequently referenced studies based on live ratings and chart reviews. Namely, 50% to 60% of 3 year olds should have good speech; and 60% to 70% of 4 to 5 year olds and 70% to 80% of 6 to 8 year olds should have normal speech. Approximately 80% of 10 to 16 year olds and 90% of young adults should have good speech; /s/ distortions were the most common residual problem. Clearly, these data tell us that cleft-related speech errors decrease with increasing age. Whether this reflects improved surgical techniques, appropriately timed and executed speech therapy, or a combination of both cannot be determined without a more robust evidence base. What is apparent is that up until the midteens, many individuals with repaired cleft palates continue to need the services of the speech-language pathologist (SLP).
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The perceptual impact of VPI on articulation in speakers with cleft palate is commonly acknowledged among SLPs and other professionals involved in cleft care. At a global or superficial level, it includes the familiar triad of “nasal emission,” “weak pressure consonants,” and “compensatory articulations.” Although accurate, this at-a-glance categorization of cleft palate speech deviations is of lile use clinically in the speech management of VPI. For evaluation and differential diagnosis and for speech treatment planning and effective delivery, a more in-depth understanding of cleft palate misarticulations is warranted. Description of these speech sound disorders is the focus of the remainder of this chapter.
Nasal Emission
Nasal emission (NE), like hypernasality, results from inappropriate coupling of the oral and nasal cavities. Nasal emission is the airflow deviation or airflow direction error that affects the high pressure consonants (the stops, fricatives, affricates) that require oral airflow under pressure. In nasal air emission, the nasal and oral cavities are “coupled” or united as one, rather than separated to allow for oral direction of the air stream. Airflow that normally is directed and emied orally escapes or is sent into the nasal cavity and is released nasally (Box 5-1).
Box 5-1
Hypernasality Versus Nasal Emission
Although both hypernasality and nasal air emission result from abnormal or inappropriate coupling of oral and nasal cavities, they are distinctly different parameters of velopharyngeal inadequacy and they affect different sound classes. Nasal air emission is not a resonance disorder.
The usual causes of this inappropriate oral-nasal coupling are VPI (coupling via the VP port) and fistulas (coupling via the oral cavity). Depending on the extent of VP opening and the forcefulness of the airflow, there may be concurrent oral and nasal air emission or speech airflow may be exclusively (100%) nasal.
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Nasal emission (NE) comes in a variety of forms that are perceptually distinct. NE can be audible or inaudible. Audible nasal emission (ANE) can be nonturbulent or turbulent, and whether nonturbulent or turbulent, ANE can be obligatory or learned. Obligatory nasal emission and learned nasal emission errors can be distinguished from each other based on their perceived error paerns. Let us now take a closer look at these nasal emission variables.
Error “paern” is not the same as error “type.” For example, the gloal stop is an error type. A speaker who uses gloal stop to replace /p, b, t, d, k, g/ has an error paern affecting the entire class of stops. Similarly, the nasal fricative is an error type. A speaker who uses nasal fricative to replace only certain consonants (e.g., /s/ and /z/) has a phoneme­specific error paern. This distinction is discussed further in the section on learned nasal emission, later in this chapter.
Inaudible Nasal Emission
Inaudible NE is nasal emission that is not heard but can be visibly detected by holding a dental mirror or other small mirror or reflector just below the nostrils. The emied nasal airflow will fog or mist the mirror. Although not perceptually disruptive to speech, inaudible NE should be flagged in the diagnostic process because it may be an indicator of incipient VPI or airflow through an oronasal fistula that could affect or reduce oral pressure, impair veoopharyngeal activity, or aggravate existing VPI (Diah et al., 2007; Isberg and Henningsson,
1987). It is also possible that the inaudible emission may be a chronic
mild residual of the repaired cleft palate and of no consequence to speech.
Audible Nasal Emission and Nasal Turbulence
As defined and used throughout this text, audible nasal emission is audible frication heard when air under pressure flows through the nasal cavity
meeting variable degrees of nasal cavity resistance. Audible nasal emission is transcribed by placing the ExtIPA diacritic above the affected pressure consonant (e.g.,
) (Duckworth et al., 1990). Nasal turbulence is audible snorting with or without associated nasal air emission, although the overriding perceptual quality is the snorting.
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Nasal turbulence is transcribed by placing the ExtIPA diacritic for “velopharyngeal frication” above the affected target (e.g.,
).
ExtIPA is an abbreviation for Extensions to the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet). It consists of a group of phonetic symbols and diacritics useful in narrow transcription of speech in special populations, including persons with cleft lip and palate or other causes of velopharyngeal inadequacy.
We acknowledge that both audible frication and snorting are characterized acoustically by aperiodic noise, and therefore both are “turbulent,” as pointed out by Zajac (2015). Perceptually, however, there is long-standing and widespread use and acceptance of the term “nasal turbulence” to label the snorting, both in research involving listeners' judgments and in clinical practice (Chapman et al., in press; Henningsson et al., 2008; John et al., 2006; Peterson-Falzone et al, 2006, 2010; Sell et al., 1999; Trost-Cardamone, 2013;), and Sweeney (2011). This underscores the utility of audible nasal emission (nonturbulent)/nasal turbulence (turbulent) as a salient perceptual dichotomy. In addition, “turbulent/nonturbulent” is more aesthetically pleasing than “snorted/nonsnorted”!
Several authors have identified the VP port as the source of this “snorting” turbulence. Based on radiographic images, Trost (1981) identified velar “fluer” frication at the velopharyngeal port as the source of turbulence and, based on its location and perceptual quality, labeled this a “posterior nasal fricative.” Because of its articulatory gestures, she also offered the term “velopharyngeal fricative.” Subsequent reports by Kummer and colleagues (1989, 1992, 2003) demonstrated, through imaging studies, that the VP port is the source of the nasal turbulence (which they termed “nasal rustle”) and that nasal turbulence is associated with smaller VP gaps. ANE (nonturbulent) is generated with a more open VP port. Similarly, the report by Zajac (2015), based on acoustic and pressure-flow data, confirmed the VP port locus of the snorting.
SLPs experienced with cleft palate speech have noted the variable auditory perceptual qualities associated with nasal emission including the variable snorting. Many labels have been used to identify this
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perceived snorting behavior, dating back to at least 1943. Some of these are listed (and noted with an asterisk) in Table 5-1. Although nasal turbulence is the more frequently used term both in clinical practice and in the published literature at this time, a lack of standardized terminology for describing nasal airflow deviations persists (Box 5-2).
TABLE 5-1
Terms Used to Label the Various Auditory Perceptual Qualities Associated With Nasal Emission
REFERENCE TERM
Backus et al., 1943
Nasal snort
*
Van Riper and Irwin, 1961
Hissing noise Nasopharyngeal snort
*
Van Demark, 1964 Distortion-nasal and substitution-nasal Morley, 1970 Nasopharyngeal snort McWilliams and Phillips, 1979
Nasal turbulence (as distinguished from nasal emission)
Trost, 1981
Posterior nasal fricative* (based on perceptual quality)
Velopharyngeal fricative (based on articulatory gestures at the velopharyngeal port)
Kummer et al., 1992, 2003
Nasal rustle* (produced with a “small” velopharyngeal gap compared with a more open
port associated with audible nasal emission)
*
Terms used to describe the “snorting” turbulence quality.
Box 5-2
Audible Nasal Emission Versus Nasal Turbulence
To reiterate, as used in this text, “audible nasal emission” is nasal emission that has no snorting sound; it is nonturbulent nasal emission. “Nasal turbulence” is the snorting sound.
In clinical practice, it is important to distinguish between audible nasal emission and nasal turbulence because this distinction provides a clue to VP closure behavior. As just discussed, nasal turbulence is associated with a smaller or narrow VP gap, whereas audible nasal emission is generated with a more widely open port (Fig. 5-5A). Such differences in VP closure behavior often mandate different management, as discussed in Chapter 10.
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FIGURE 5-5 Nasal emission variables.
Coproduced Nasal Emission Versus Nasal Fricative Replacement of the Target
It is important to distinguish audible nasal emission or nasal turbulence that accompanies or is coproduced with high pressure consonant targets from audible nasal emission or nasal turbulence that is associated with a nasal fricative replacement or substitution of the target consonant (see Fig. 5-5B). With coproduced audible nasal emission or nasal turbulence, the target consonant, although distorted, still is identifiable. When a nasal fricative is produced, the target is not perceptually identifiable; it is replaced by the nasal fricative articulation. (See descriptions of the nasal fricative later in this chapter.)
Obligatory Nasal Emission Versus Learned Nasal Emission
Whereas hypernasality in speakers with repaired cleft palates is almost always obligatory or has a physical basis, nasal emission can be either obligatory (passive) or learned (i.e., active; meaning that it has no physical basis) (see Fig. 5-5C).
Obligatory Nasal Emission.
Obligatory nasal emission is physically based and may result from the following factors:
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1. VP insufficiency, such as seen in patients with an unrepaired or inadequately repaired cleft palate, or mechanical interference to closure, resulting in widespread, pervasive NE affecting all pressure consonants in the speaker's inventory, and typically accompanied by pervasive hypernasality
2. VP incompetency as in the dysarthrias of closed head injury in which NE affects all pressure consonants but may be weakly realized and is also accompanied by pervasive hypernasality
In linguistic terminology, “realized” is used to mean “produced.”
3. Postoperative or residual oronasal fistulas in which we can see a correlation between the location of the fistula and the error paern observed (i.e., the specific sounds affected by the fistula).
Obligatory ANE requires physical management (either through surgery or prosthetic appliance management).
Learned Nasal Emission.
Learned (active) nasal emission occurs in spite of a capable VP closure mechanism. The speaker intentionally directs airflow through the VP port.
Two error paerns that you are likely to encounter in clinical practice are phoneme-specific nasal emission and persisting postoperative nasal emission. These paerns are discussed in the following paragraphs.
Because learned nasal emission typically affects a specific high pressure consonant or small subset of pressure consonants, usually the sibilant fricatives, it has come to be called phoneme-specific nasal emission
(PSNE).
Ruscello (1991) termed this paern “context specific nasal emission.” According to Harding and Grunwell in the United Kingdom (1998), “Strategies employed in early speech inevitably affect phonological processes” (p. 331). These investigators preferred to categorize these errors as “process specific” and not phoneme-specific because a class of consonants (e.g., fricatives) can be realized by one error type (e.g., nasal fricative for all fricatives or all sibilant fricatives). Both terms describe
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the same kind of mislearning that involves intentional nasal emission or turbulence.
Phoneme-specific nasal emission is probably the most common learned NE error paern (Box 5-3). It is a very important paern for you to understand because, although a cleft speech characteristic, it is not limited to patients with cleft palate. PSNE also occurs in individuals without clefts who have normal VP closure ability, as well as in speakers with adequately repaired cleft palates (Peterson-Falzone, 1975;
Peterson-Falzone and Graham, 1990; Trost, 1981, Trost-Cardamone
1988). PSNE is selective nasal emission in that it affects production of
certain high pressure consonants, while the remainder of the high pressure consonants in the speaker's inventory are produced with normal (oral) direction of airflow. The phonemes most vulnerable to PSNE are the sibilant fricatives and affricates /s, z,
, , , /. We usually perceive audible nasal emission or nasal turbulence coproduced with the target or a nasal fricative replacement for the target, as described later in this chapter. Typically, there is no associated hypernasality; there may be intermient assimilation nasality affecting vowels next to the consonant phoneme(s) affected by PSNE. Because /s/ is almost always affected and is the most frequently occurring sound in spoken English, when a child with no obvious physical signs of clefting presents with phoneme-specific, clinicians unfamiliar with this paern think there must be some type of submucous cleft. Importantly, because this error paern is learned, PSNE is corrected through speech therapy and does not require or respond to surgical management.
Box 5-3
Learned Audible Nasal Emission or Nasal Turbulence: Different Presentations
Perceptually, learned nasal emission can be realized as nasal emission that is coproduced with an oral pressure consonant or in a nasal fricative substitution for the pressure consonant, either of which may have associated nasal turbulence or snorting.
Persisting postoperative nasal emission is nasal emission that persists in
speakers with repaired cleft palate and adequate VP closure ability. In
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other words, for some speakers, the early-learned option or strategy of directing air nasally to produce pressure consonants may be incorporated into their phonological system, and they continue to direct airflow nasally. In our experience, persisting postoperative nasal emission differs from nasal emission that is phoneme-specific in that it is not restricted to a certain sound class or group. It can affect any of the high pressure consonants, depending on which early developing sounds were “learned” with nasal emission. Like phoneme-specific nasal emission, persisting postoperative nasal emission is perceptually realized as nasal emission coproduced with the target or as a nasal fricative replacement of the target.
Nasal Emission: Conclusion and Recommendation
Much of the evidence on the perceptual characteristics of nasal emission comes from our clinical experience and from anecdotal reports and informal exchange among clinicians. Both of these learned paerns warrant further definition through clinical documentation and systematic study. Nevertheless, you should keep in mind that not all nasal air emission has a physical basis. Unless you are familiar with these paerns, confirmation of suspected learned nasal emission by a cleft palate team or an SLP experienced in cleft palate management is strongly recommended and is preferred over referral to a plastic surgeon or ENT physician who may not be involved with a team or knowledgeable regarding best practices for cleft care.
Figure 5-6 presents a schematic illustration of the potential sources of
nasal emission. In Chapter 8 we describe clinical assessment procedures to guide you in differential diagnosis of nasal emission paerns, where you will learn that the target sounds affected by nasal emission depend on the source of that nasal emission. There is a relationship between the source of nasal air escape and place of articulation of affected consonants.
Audio 5-4
provides samples of three speakers with different sources of nasal air emission. Speaker 1 has pervasive nasal turbulence, generated at the velopharyngeal port as a result of an unoperated submucous cleft palate. Speaker 2 has nasal air emission audible on /p, b, t, d/ because of an anterior oronasal fistula; other pressure consonants (e.g., /f, v, k, g/ are not affected. Speaker 3 has phoneme-
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specific nasal emission that affects the sibilant fricatives and affricates but none of the other high pressure consonants in his inventory.
FIGURE 5-6 Sources of nasal emission. A, Nasolabial fistula.
B, Anterior oronasal fistula. C, Posterior oronasal fistula. D,
Velopharyngeal port (VP insufficiency, VP incompetency, VP
mislearning).
Weak Pressure Consonants
When there is a leak in the aerodynamic system, (e.g., nasal airflow due to VPI or a sufficiently large fistula), oral pressures for speech will drop, just as water pressure drops in a leaky hose. Weak pressure consonants are the result of this pressure drop that reduces or eliminates the
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