Rehabilitation Round Table

Invitational Round Table

“Evidence-based Voice and Speech Rehabilitation in Head and Neck Cancer”

 Thursday May 15, 2008

Chairpersons Frans Hilgers, Louis Pols

 13.15                            Welcome with coffee

13.30-13.45                   Opening. Frans Hilgers, Louis Pols

13.45-14.45                   Perceptual and acoustic analysis of TE-substitute voice and speech. Corina van As-Brooks

14.45-15.45                   Objective evaluation of TE-substitute voice and speech. Ulrich Eysholdt

15.45-16.00                   Tea break

16.00-17.00                   Articulatory aerodynamics, contact pressures and sense of effort during tracheoesophageal speech. Jeff Searl

 17.00-17.45                   Poster presentations and poster visit*

 19.00-22.00                   Dinner

Friday May 16, 2008

Chairpersons Maya van Rossum, Annemieke Ackerstaff

 09.00-10.00                   An evidence-based rehabilitation program for tracheoesophageal speakers. Petra Jongmans

 10.00-11.00                   Quality of life after Total Laryngectomy. Tanya Eadie

 11.00-11.15                   Coffee break

 11.15-12.15                   Oral and oropharyngeal cancer: speech outcomes and the need to monitor change over time. Phillip Doyle

Chairpersons Frans Hilgers, Louis Pols

12.15-13.15                   Where do we stand and what are the priorities for research in the near future?

 13.15                            Adjourn; sandwiches on the go.

All presentations should be 45 minutes, followed by 15 minutes discussion

* Poster presentations: 10 minutes, followed by poster visit

1. Tracheoesophageal speech with manual versus automatic stoma occlusion: a multi-dimensional comparison. Annelies Labaere et al.

2. Early rehabilitation of Head and Neck Cancer patients at Karolinska University Hospital. Therese Engström et al.