Efficacy of an Arabic Articulatory Error Remediation Software Program in Patients With Velopharyngeal Valve Dysfunction:

To develop a remediation software program that is specific for correcting speech errors in patients with velopharyngeal dysfunction in the Arabic language and test its efficacy, on one group comparing pre and post results

The study was carried on 40 patients having articulation errors in cases of velopharyngeal valve dysfunction attending the unit of phoniatrics, otorhinolaryngology department, Alexandria University. The patients met the specified inclusion and exclusion criteria. The patient underwent pre intervention evaluation and 3 parameters were chosen to compare efficacy of the program before and after therapy. these include auditory perceptual assessment of speech, nasometer test and articulation test. The patient underwent the remediation software program as individual sessions. then after finishing the therapy, the patients underwent post therapeutic evaluation with the 3 specified criteria Statistical analysis Was carried out using SPSS statistics software version 23. Quantitative data were tested for normality using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. The variables which were normally distributed were described by Mean± SD. The variables which were not normally distributed, were described by median (Min-Max). Qualitative data were expressed by numbers and percentages. The results were calculated at a level of significance of 5% or less.