Correlating Undiagnosed Hearing Impairment with Hyperfunctional Dysphonia

The Relationship Between Pitch Discrimination and Fundamental Frequency Variation: Effects of Singing Status and Vocal Hyperfunction

“…42 Of note, according to the framework developed by Hillman and colleagues', the etiology of VH is heterogeneous, and includes factors attributed to personality, sensorimotor deficits and anatomical/physiological vulnerability. In fact, there is even preliminary evidence for increased prevalence of undiagnosed hearing impairment in individuals with VH, 72 and a recent study by Abur et al 45 found poorer pitch discrimination tasks in individuals with VH as compared to controls with typical voices, which includes a subsection of the data from the current study. Given this added complexity, it may be important in future studies to consider not only the impact of VH on f o production, but also on perception.…”

Impaired auditory discrimination and auditory-motor integration in hyperfunctional voice disorders

“…However, hearing status and singing experience were not reported. These are important considerations, with evidence supporting increased prevalence of hearing impairment in individuals with HVDs 33 and benefits of musicality for pitch discrimination 34 . Another study reported greater f o reflexive response magnitudes in 10 speakers with HVDs compared to 17 controls.…”

Vocal Outcome After Cordectomy by Transoral CO2 Laser Microsurgery in Patients With Laryngeal Intraepithelial Neoplasia and Non-neoplastic Lesions

“…We did not account for hearing status and it cannot be completely ruled out, that an unaided presbycusis in some of the patients could have affected the patients' voice at baseline. [73][74][75][76][77][78][79] However, the hearing thresholds for these patients will probably not have deteriorated significantly within the time from baseline to follow-up. Further, pathological presbylaryngis is common among elderly voice patients from the mid-seventies and can affect vocal quality, MPT, f o mean and self-perceived voice handicap.…”