Exam 3 Part 2 Flashcards
What is the difference between hygienic and symptomatic therapy?
- Hygienic: modifications focus on a behavior (e.g. vocal abuse, misuse, trying to use healthy vocal techniques. Eliminating vocal abuse/misuse
- Symptomatic: modification comes with deviant vocal symptoms (pitch, quality, loudness).
What are examples of hygienic therapy?
Encouraging hydration, relaxation exercises, use amplification devices when yelling
What are examples of symptomatic therapy?
Change of loudness, altering tongue position, chewing exercises to relax muscles, shift focus
T/F: If the modifications are about phonotraumatic behaviors, that would be hygienic.
True
T/F: Patient education in terms of life style modification would come under symptomatic voice therapy.
False; hygienic
What is an example of physiologic therapy?
Voice function exercises
T/F: One of the goals with physiological voice therapy is to restore the tissues
True
Improves vocal function in both normal and disordered voices; heightens vocal fold vibration - vocal tract interaction by raising supraglottal and intraglottal pressures
Semi-occluded vocal tract exercise
Lungs to outside
Downstream
outside to lungs (inhalation)
Upstream
Impedance matching by vocal fold adduction and epilarynx tube narrowing makes voice more efficient and economic by reducing ______ of the vocal fold tissue
Collision
Why are semi-occluded vocal tract exercises important?
Improves interactions between subsystems, heightens interaction between voice and filter, impedance matching between flows of glottis and epilarynx, transfers the maximum amount of acoustic energy without over function of the vocal folds, repositions vocal folds (not completely adducted or abducted), improves brightness of voice, improves tissue health
What are examples of semi-occluded vocal tract exercises?
humming, tongue and lip trills, /ol/ buzz, using kazoo, straw, tube, resonant voice therapy, accent method of voice therapy, flow phonation
Series of isometric/isotonic vocal exercises used to balance the laryngeal musculature, improve stamina, and improve glottal efficiency
Vocal function exercises (VFE)
T/F: We cannot use nasal sounds for SOVT, as that needs a complete closure of the oral cavity.
False; nasal consonants are the most important part of SOVT, to improve the front resonance and subsystem coordination.
