Chapter 6 - Voice Disorders

Question 1

What pitch levels are associated with males, females, and children under 10?

Answer 1

MALE – 100+ HZ

FEMALE – 200+ HZ

CHILDREN – 300+ HZ

Question 2

Name the 3 parameters SLPs look at when diagnosing a voice disorder.

Answer 2

QUALITY, PITCH, LOUDNESS

Question 3

What are the 4 categories into which voice disorders are placed?

Answer 3

ORGANIC

NEUROGENIC

FUNCTIONAL

PSYCHOGENIC


Question 4

Which category would include nodules, cysts, and polyps?

Answer 4

ORGANIC

Question 5

A functional voice disorder in which a male continues to use a higher pitched voice despite his larynx having lowered.

Answer 5

PUBERPHONIA

Question 6

A functional voice disorder seen in older people due to lose of collagen and muscle in the vocal folds.

Answer 6

PRESBYPHONIA

Question 7

The space between the vocal folds when they are adducted but cannot close completely due to a pathology.

Answer 7

CHINK

Question 8

Term used to describe the meeting of the vocal folds in the middle.

Answer 8

MEDIAL COMPRESSION

Question 9

Most common organic voice disorder.

Answer 9

NODULES

Question 10

Observing the vocal folds in slow motion using a camera on the end of a rigid tube is called

Answer 10

STROBOSCOPY

Question 11

Where on the vocal folds do nodules occur?

Answer 11

ANTERIOR 2/3

Question 12

Organic disorder presenting as a white sac-like pillow inside the vocal folds.

Answer 12

CYST

Question 13

Increased mass on the vocal folds results in

Answer 13

DECREASED PITCH AND LOUDNESS

Question 14

What is your job as an SLP when working with patients with voice disorders?

Answer 14

DETERMINE THE CAUSE AND THEN HOW TO TREAT IT

Question 15

What is aphonia?

Answer 15

Complete loss of voice

Question 16

What is it called when the vocal fold tissues become swollen?

Answer 16

Edema

Question 17

___ voice is associated with excessive muscle tension. Explain.

Answer 17

Harsh. The vocal folds are pressed together tightly with a quick release during each cycle of vibration; the walls of the throat are tightened to amplify the high-frequency components of the voice.

Question 18

Increased muscle activity

Answer 18

Hyperfunction

Question 19

Decreased muscle activity

Answer 19

Hypofunction

Question 20

What are some types of neurogenic voice problems?

Answer 20

Paralysis and Spasmodic Dysphonia

Question 21

Difficulty breathing

Answer 21

Dyspnea

Question 22

Most frequent type of SD

Answer 22

Adductor SD (strain-strangle voice)

Question 23

What is a quality of abductor SD?

Answer 23

Speech interrupted by periods of aphonia

Question 24

Name nine primary symptoms of voice disorders.

Answer 24

Hoarseness
Fatigue
Breathiness
Reduced pitch range
Aphonia 
High pitch 
Strain-strangle
Tremor
Globus

Question 25

What are the characteristics that can be observed or tested by a clinician?

Answer 25

SIgns

Question 26

Opening on the front of the neck which trachea is redirected to following laryngectomy

Answer 26

Tracheal stoma

Question 27

Speech in which air is actively injected down the esophagus past the neoglottis (aka pseudo glottis or PE segment)

Answer 27

Esophageal speech

Question 28

Speech in which air is routed from the lungs into the esophagus via tracheosophageal speech prothesis

Answer 28

Tracheosophageal speech

Most natural speech with least amount of therapy