CH. 7 - Voice and Its Disorders Flashcards
You are evaluating a girl who has been referred to you bc of difficulties associated with partial submucous cleft palate accompanied by a bifid uvula. During your evaluation, you can probably expect to find..
hypernasality, accompanied by decreased intraoral breath pressure, leading to difficulties with adequate production of fricatives, affricates, and plosives.
The suprahyoid muscles are the..
digastrics, geniohyoids, mylohyoids, stylohyoids, genioglossus, and hyoglossus.
Specialists can measure _______, or the total volume of air in the lungs.
total lung capacity
Other measurements include _______, or the amount of air inhaled and exhaled during a normal breathing cycle.
tidal volume
This is the measurement of the volume of air that the patient can exhale after a maximal exhalation.
vital capacity
which is this method of esophageal speech called? – patient impounds the air in the oral cavity, pushes it back into the esophagus, and vibrates the cricopharyngeus muscle.
the “injection” method
A singer who has had damage to her RLN would benefit from….
strategies to improve vocal fold adduction
During and OME on a 67-yr-old man who complains his voice has gotten “weaker” the past 5-6 months, you find he has fasciculations of the tongue and some general facial weakness..what do you do
refer him to a neurologist for an evaluation
8 yr old boy is hoarse (for past 8 months), yells a lot and has nodules now. first thing you do is..
focus on identification and reduction of vocally abusive behavior, such as yelling and screaming, using computer games to help motivate him to use better vocal habits. (*putting a child on complete vocal rest is unrealistic)
The Blom-Singer device is used to…
shunt air from the trachea to the esophagus so that the patient can speak on that air
Patients who might be treated with CO2 laser surgery, recurrent laryngeal nerve resection, Botox, voice therapy, or a combination would probably have..
a. contact ulcers
b. PVFM
c. hemangioma
d. spasmodic dysphonia
d. spasmodic dysphonia
25-yr old male to female client wants to speak more feminine –she is emotional re her gender reassignment. YOU should..
advise her that a combo of counseling, surgery, and voice therapy to teach more feminine pitch levels and communication patterns would best serve her needs.
The cover-body theory of phonation states..
the epithelium, the superficial layer of the lamina propria, and much of the intermediate layer of the lamina propria vibrate as a “cover” on a relatively stationary “body” which is made up of the remainder of the intermediate layer, the deep layer, and the TA muscle
“double voice” is __________
diplophonia
________ is a procedure that uses a pulsing light to permit the optical illusion of slow-motion viewing of the vocal folds.
stroboscopy
