Dr. Ann W. Kummer, PhD, CCC-SLP, F-ASHA
Speech-Language Pathologist
3333 Burnet Ave Cincinnati OH, 45229About
Dr. Ann Kummer is a speech language pathologist practicing in Cincinnati, OH. Dr. Kummer specializes in speech, language and swallowing disorders in patients. As a speech language pathologist, Dr. Kummer evaluates, diagnoses and treats patients with communication and swallowing troubles. These conditions may be due to developmental delay, brain injury, hearing loss, autism, stroke or other diseases and injuries. Dr. Kummer helps patients make sounds and improve their voices through various methods. Speech language pathologists also work with patients to strengthen muscles used to speak and swallow, and work with individuals and families to help cope with their conditions.
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- The relationship between the characteristics of speech and velopharyngeal gap size.
- Response to "velopharyngeal dysfunction: speech characteristics, variable etiologies, evaluation techniques, and differential treatments" by Dworkin, Marunick, and Krouse, October 2004.
- The prevalence of apraxia characteristics in patients with velocardiofacial syndrome as compared with other cleft populations.
- Communication disorders related to cleft palate, craniofacial anomalies, and velopharyngeal dysfunction.
- Disorders of resonance and airflow secondary to cleft palate and/or velopharyngeal dysfunction.
- Types and causes of velopharyngeal dysfunction.
- Perceptual assessment of resonance and velopharyngeal function.
- Speech therapy for errors secondary to cleft palate and velopharyngeal dysfunction.
- Description of laryngeal pathologies in children evaluated by otolaryngologists.
- Ethics in the practice of speech-language pathology in health care settings.
- Speech evaluation for patients with cleft palate.
- Non-cleft causes of velopharyngeal dysfunction: implications for treatment.
- Use of a modified Furlow Z-plasty as a secondary cleft palate repair procedure to reduce velopharyngeal insufficiency.
- Incidence of velopharyngeal insufficiency and oronasal fistulae after cleft palate repair: A retrospective study of children referred to Isfahan Cleft Care Team between 2005 and 2009.
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