SPEECH REHABILITATION AFTER TOTAL REMOVAL OF LARYNX

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Abstract
The problems that confront the patient who has undergone a radical laryngeal resection are generally not too well known. To present a total picture of the person who has undergone radical laryngectomy and his problems is one of the aims of this paper. Further, it is our purpose to show that practically all patients, after a total laryngectomy, can acquire a natural form of speech1without the use of any artificial aid and that they can resume their former occupations and activities requiring the use of the voice. The number of patients with cancer of the larynx who have a total laryngectomy is increasing yearly.2They number in the thousands. Physicians in many communities in the United States and other countries now have to care for many more of these persons, whose medical needs are many, sometimes unique. The necessity for speech rehabilitation after the operation is now

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