Zaburzenia procesu komunikatywnego w praktyce otolaryngologicznej

Disorders of communication process concerns voice, speech and hearing problems. The most common voice disorder in ENT practice is dysphonia. Mostly it is acute inflammation, but also functional dysphonia in which an abnormal voice is produced in the absence of vocal pathologies, either structural or neurogenic. It could be also vocal folds paralysis dysphonia or voice disorders due to benign organic vocal fold lesions. Some of those organic changes (vocal nodules, polyps, hypertrophy and thickening of vocal folds epithelium) frequently appears in cases with vocal abuse or inappropriate vocal use. Children's speech development closely depends on hearing, intelligence average, central nervous system function as well as on articulation organ morphology. Hearing problems as a etiological factor of communication process disorders in ENT practice, supposed to focus on early detection and management of hypacusis in newborns (screening stages) as well as on a proper diagnosis and treatment of conductive hearing loss or unilateral deafness.