Editing Phoniatrics

{{Short description|Sudy and treatment of organs involved in speech production}}
'''Phoniatrics''' or '''phoniatry'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dictionary.infoplease.com/phoniatrics|title=Meaning of phoniatrics - Infoplease|website=InfoPlease}}</ref> is the [[medical research|study]] and treatment of [[organ (anatomy)|organ]]s involved in [[Speech communication|speech]] production, mainly the [[Human mouth|mouth]], throat ([[larynx]]), [[vocal cords]], and [[human lung|lung]]s. Problems treated in phoniatrics include dysfunction of the vocal cords, cancer of the vocal cords or larynx, inability to control the speech organs properly ([[speech disorder]]s), and [[vocal loading]] problems.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wC3NsgEACAAJ&q=phoniatrics+include+dysfunction+of+the+vocal+cords|title=Phoniatrics I: Fundamentals – Voice Disorders – Disorders of Language and Hearing Development|last1=Zehnhoff-Dinnesen|first1=Antoinette am|last2=Wiskirska-Woznica|first2=Bozena|last3=Neumann|first3=Katrin|last4=Nawka|first4=Tadeus|date=2019-08-15|publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg|isbn=9783662467794|language=en}}</ref>

According to the Union of European Phoniatricians, phoniatrics is "the medical specialty dealing with voice, speech, language, hearing and swallowing disorders".<ref>{{cite web|title=Phoniatrics, the Medical Specialty for Communication Disorders|url=http://www.phoniatrics-uep.org|website=www.phoniatrics-uep.org|access-date=31 January 2015}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
* {{Cite web|url=http://www.phoniatrics.eu/uep/downloads/logbook-phoniatrics_uems_update2010.pdf|title=Logbook Phoniatrics UEMS 2010|date=1 October 2010|website=Union of the European Phoniatricians|access-date=30 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161030082236/http://www.phoniatrics.eu/uep/downloads/logbook-phoniatrics_uems_update2010.pdf|archive-date=30 October 2016|url-status=dead}}

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