Hypernasality is a speech disorder occurring palate and pharynx tissues do not close properly. This inadequate closure causes air to escape through the nose during speech instead of coming out of the ...

Nasal Resonance distortion results from a disturbance in resonance which is not related to laryngeal function. In hypernasality or severe nasality there is faulty control in palato-pharyngeal valving ...

As pointed out correctly by Dr Kirk there is a difference between hypernasal speech and hyponasal speech. The three patients described in our paper, 1 which was published in the October issue of this ...