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1Department of Psychiatry, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
Abstract:
Reports of functional dysphonia in children and adolescents under 16 years of age are few. Approximately a dozen cases have been reported in the English literature over the past 35 years. Most of the articles appear in journals related to the fields of speech, hearing and communication with a few in the Otorhinolaryngologic journals. Published papers in psychiatric journals dealing with voice or speech disorders are virtually nonexistent. In children and adolescents the two most common varieties are the Whispering Syndrome, which occurs predominantly in girls, and the Hysterical High Pitched Voice seen mostly in boys. This paper discusses these two varieties of functional dysphonia and presents a case example of each.
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