Facilitative and Aversive Activities of the Vocal Folds Flashcards
1
Q
What kinds of activities can be facilitative?
A
- Relaxed whisper
- Yawning
- Coughing
- Throat clearing (soft and breathy clearing)
- Laughing
- Crying
2
Q
How is a relaxed whisper facilitative?
A
- Less stressful to vocal folds
- More open and softer
3
Q
Describe a forced whisper
A
- Strong funneled air stream
- Stiffened folds
- Turbulence just above glottis
4
Q
What kinds of activities can be aversive?
A
- Forced whisper
- Prolonged cough
- Loud or frequent throat clearing
- Loud or excessive laughing
- Tight, loud, or excessive crying
5
Q
Yawning
A
- Facilitates relaxation of vocal tract musculature
6
Q
How can coughing be either facilitative or aversive?
A
- Airway protection
- Encourage adduction of vocal folds
- Prolonged cough abusive to vocal folds
7
Q
What happens to the vocal folds during throat clearing?
A
- vocal folds grate on each other
8
Q
Throat clearing (good and bad)
A
- Can help remove irritants
- Entire larynx goes into stressful movements
- Encourage very soft and breathy clearing
- Loud or frequent clearing is abusive to vocal folds
9
Q
Laughing (good and bad)
A
- Laryngeal musculature are reflexively relaxed
- Can help generate efficient vocal physiology in voice therapy
- Can cause excessive laryngeal pressure and stress if done too loudly or excessively
10
Q
What does open, relaxed crying lead to?
A
- Enriched resonance between the vocal folds and the supraglottic resonating spaces
11
Q
What does tight, loud, or excessive crying lead to?
A
- Laryngeal and supraglottic musculature are tensed
