treatment: respiration

Question 1

T/F: speech demands on respiration are great

Answer 1

Falso

Question 2

How do you promote effienct use of airstream?

Answer 2

Improve phonation. resonation, and articulation

Question 3

according to Duffy, when do you need to work on respiration?

Answer 3

When there is inadiquate loudness and no flexible capacity for breath patterning (for phrasing)

Question 4

What should a client be able to do ?

Answer 4

maintain a stream of bubbles for five seconds in a glass of water with the straw depth of 5 centimeters

Question 5

If client has insuffient airflow (less than 5cm H20) what excersises can you do?

Answer 5

Postural adjustments encouragement
Valsalvic manuvers (pushing/pulling/bearing down)
sustained phonation exercises (5 secs)
corsets and binders to help posture
expiratory board/paddle/just hands (lean into it to expire)

Question 6

Behavioral compensation for respiration (practices)

Answer 6

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• breathing deeply
• exhaling more forcefully
• learning to control airstream (let out slowly)
• shorter phrases per breath group
• corrective maladaptive breath groups
• use biofeedback