02086caa a2200217   4500008004100000022001400041100001700055245010900072260000900181270012400190270013000314300001200444490002300456520119700479653004801676700001901724773003701743856005601780942001501836999001701851210629s9999    xx            000 0 und d  a2474-7556  aDeepthi, K.J 0aVoice Characteristics of Kannada Speaking 3 to 5 Year Old Children with Repaired Cleft of Lip and Palate  c2018  aProfessor, Department of Speech-Language Pathology, All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysuru, Karnataka, India  aResearch Fellow, Department of Speech-Language Pathology, All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore, Karnataka, India  a103-107  vVolume 16  Issue 5  aThere is an increase of children with cleft of lip and palate in India. However the number of studies investigating the voice characteristics of children with CLP in any of the Indian languages is sparse. Thus the current study is aimed at investigating the voice characteristics viz., fundamental frequency, intensity, jitter and shimmer in 3 to 5 year old native Kannada speaking children with repaired cleft of lip and palate (RCLP). Twenty children with RCLP were considered for the study that were divided into 3 to 4 year old and 4 to 5 year old groups. Twenty age matched typically developing children were also considered for the study. Phonation of vowel /a/ was recorded for each child and analysed using Praat (5.4.14) software. Appropriate statistical analysis was done to compare the results between groups and across ages. The results revealed that only fundamental frequency was statistically different between the groups however age effect was not seen for the same. The remaining parameters viz., intensity, jitter percentage and shimmer percentage were not found to be statistically significant between groups and across ages as well. The reasons for the same are discussed.  aVoice; Acoustic analysis; Kannada language   aPushpavathi, M  aGlobal Journal of Otolaryngology  uhttp://http//dx.doi.org/10.19080/GJO.2018.16.555950  cFJASyFJAS  c17776d17776