Voice

Question 1

Variations in vocal frequency, or FREQUENCY PERTUBATION, are known as ….

Answer 1

JITTER

Question 2

The Bloom Singer prosthethic device is used by laryngectomees to….

Answer 2

shunt air from the trachea to the esophagus so the patient can speak on pulmonary air that enters esophagus

Question 3

Amplitude perturbation =

Answer 3

SHIMMER!

Question 4

T or F: Measures of shimmer and jitter are becoming more common because they can be useful in early detection of vocal pathology.

Answer 4

TRUE!

Question 5

GLOTTAL FRY/ VOCAL FRY

Answer 5

When VFs vibrate very slowly. Produces a low pitch Sounds like a “crackly voice”

Question 6

What is stridency?

Answer 6

A strident voice sounds shrill, unpleasant, somewhat high pitched, and “tinny”.
* usually caused by hypertonicity of pharyngeal constrictors and elevation of larynx

Question 7

The graphic representation of a sound wave’s intensity and frequency as a function of time is called a …..

Answer 7

SOUND SPECTOGRAPHY

Question 8

TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY=

Answer 8

the total volume of air in the lungs

Question 9

VITAL CAPACITY=

Answer 9

the volume of air that the patient can exhale after a maximal exhalation

Question 10

TIDAL CAPACITY=

Answer 10

amount of air inhaled and exhaled during a normal breathing cycle