Figure. Comparison of Communicative Participation Between Our Sample of Self-reported Facial Paralysis and Other Samples From the Literature.

Samples from the literature included laryngectomy,¹⁹ head and neck cancer (HNCa),²⁰ amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS),²¹ and multiple sclerosis (MS).²² Error bars indicate SD.

^aPatients evaluated with the full-length, 46-item version of the Communicative Participation Item Bank (CPIB) as opposed to the Short Form. Higher logit scores indicate better communicative function. Ca indicates cancer.