Final Flashcards
What are the effects of cleft lip and palate on the articulartion, resonance and phonatory speech subsystems?
Articulation: altered structures such as dentition, lips, and palate can result in compensatory or obligatory articulation
Resonance: a cleft palate can result in hyperresonance prior to surgery and VPI post-surgery, as well as altered nasal passages causing resonance issues
Phonation: ?????
What are the speech characteristics typically demonstrated by children with repaired and unrepaired CL/P?
Audible air emissions or turbulent nasal air emissions on high pressure sounds, weak pressure on sounds, nasal substitutions and compensatory articulation, dysphonia
What are the resonance characteristics typically demonstrated by children with repaired and unrepaired CL/P?
Hyper/hyponasality
What is the primary goal for speech intervention for children before palate repair?
Before the repair, the goal is to facilitate oral airflow, contrasting oral versus nasal airflow to avoid learning compensatory strategies. The goal is to transition from blowing tasks to sound production activities and then begin learning functional words.
What are the primary goals for speech intervention for children after palate repair?
Afterwards, the goal is to fix compensatory strategies the child may have developed.
What are some indicators for further instrumental and medical evaluation by a CL/P team?
If constant therapy and practice does not allow the child to produce oral airflow without nasal occlusion during correct placement of speech sounds, refer for investigation of VP functioning.
What are the intrinsic laryngeal muscles in voice and swallowing? Give the action and the innervation of each.
Thyroarytenoid: shortens and tenses vocal folds
Posterior cricoarytenoid: opens vocal folds
Lateral cricoarytenoid: closes vocal folds
Arytenoid: closes vocal folds
Cricothyroid: lengthens vocal cords
What are the extrinsic laryngeal muscles in voice and swallowing? Give the action and the innervation of each.
Thyrohyoid: decreases the distance between the thyroid cartilage and hyoid bone.
Sternothyroid: places a downward pull on the hyoid bone.
Inferior constrictor: moves sidewall of the lower pharynx inward and decreases the size of the pharyngeal lumen.
What are the five layers of the vocal folds, from out to in?
Stratified squamous epithelium Superficial lamina propria Intermediate LP Deep LP Thyroarytenoid
What are included in the body, the transition and the cover of the vocal folds made of?
Cover = stratified squamous epithelium + superficial LP Transition = Intermediate LP + deep LP Body = thyroarytenoid muscle
What is the myoelastic-aerodynamic theory?
When the vocal folds are moved into the airway by the intrinsic laryngeal muscles, they create resistance to air passing through. The air pressure builds and eventually overcomes this resistance, pushing through and causing them to vibrate due to their elasticity.
How does the bernoulli effect factor into the myoelastic-aerodynamic theory?
The small space between the fold when they are adducted causes air to move more quickly between them, resulting in reduced air pressure between the folds. This causes the folds to pull back towards each other, slamming shut. In combination with the myoelastic-aerodynamic theory, this creates the wave pattern of the folds opening and shutting to create phonation.
What are the 4 major divisions of the auditory system?
Outer ear
Middle ear
Inner ear
Central auditory system
What are the main anatomical structures of the outer ear?
Auricle (pinna)
Enternal auditory meatus (ear canal)
Tympanic membrane (ear drum)
What are the main anatomical structures of the middle ear?
The ossicles (stapes, malleus, incus)
What are the main anatomical structures of the inner ear?
Cochlea
Vestibular system
What is the cranial nerve responsible for hearing and balance?
The vagus nerve (VIII), which originates in the medulla, is responsible for hearing and balance.
Name the major nuclei and synapses involved in the ascending auditory pathway.
Brainstem -> synapse on the ventral and dorsal cochlear nuclei -> (some fibres cross midline) -> synapse on superior olivary complex -> nucleus of the lateral lemniscus -> inferior colliculus (connected by fibres that cross over from both sides of the brain stem) -> medical geniculate body (MGB) -> fans out into the auditory radiations to the auditory cortex
Name some disorders of the outer ear.
Microtia Atresia Stenosis Collapsing ear canals Foreign bodies Otitis Externa (swimmers ear) Otomycosis Tympanic membrane perforation
List the cause/what is it, symptoms, effect on hearing, and treatment/considerations for: microtia.
Cause: small ear size resulting from an inherited trait disorder or interrupting in development
Effects on hearing: potentially none in isolation
Treatment: Surgery
List the cause, symptoms, effect on hearing, and treatment/considerations for: Atresia
Cause: no ear canal formed
EOH: Permenant conductive hearing loss (50-60dB)
Treatment: Surgery
List the cause, symptoms, effect on hearing, and treatment/considerations for: stenosis
Cause: narrowing of the ear canal
EOH: some hearing loss
Treatment: hearing aids
List the cause, symptoms, effect on hearing, and treatment/considerations for: collapsing ear canals
Cause: Canal fold in on itself due to weak tissue
EOH: temporary conductive HL (5-50dB)
Treatment: use in-ear headphones to avoid collapse during hearing tests due to weight of head phones
List the cause, symptoms, effect on hearing, and treatment/considerations for: foreign bodies
Cause: Wax
EOH: mild to moderate conductive hearing loss
Treatment: cleaning and removal
List the cause, symptoms, effect on hearing, and treatment/considerations for: Acute Otitis Externa (swimmer ear)
Cause: bateria enters the ear canal and sits there, growing and resulting in an infection.
Symptoms: stenosis caused by cartilage inflammation, tenderness to the pinna, whitish, watery discharge
EOH: decreased hearing
Treatment: topical drops
List the cause, symptoms, effect on hearing, and treatment/considerations for: Chronic Otitis Externa
Cause: same as AOE
Symptoms: dermatitis of the EAM, itchy but less pain, red, scaly skin, may see complete occlusion of the meatus with discharge
EOH: decreased hearing
Treatment: topical drops
List the cause, symptoms, effect on hearing, and treatment/considerations for: otomycosis
Cause: fungal infection cause by overuse of ear drops
List the cause, symptoms, effect on hearing, and treatment/considerations for: tympanic membrane perforation
Cause: excessive fluid in the middle ear, implosion by blow to the head, diving, or waterskiing, punctured, loss of TE
EOH: determined by the location and size but typically mild conductive loss
Treatment: can heal on it’s own or surgery for large repair
What are some disorders of the middle ear?
Otitis Media Tympanosclerosis Exostoses (surfer's ear) Osteoma Otosclerosis Cholesteatoma Discontinuity of the ossicular chain Bell's Palsy
List the cause, symptoms, effect on hearing, and treatment/considerations for: Otitis media
Cause: inflammation of the middle ear, usually resulting from poor ET function. OME is inflammation with fluid but no infection
Symptoms: Otorrhea (discharge from the middle ear)
EOH: amount of fluid determines the degree of hearing loss. Conductive ranging from mild to moderate (50dB) with average being around 20-25dB.
Treatment: spontaneously clears up or insertion of ET tubes