Week 1

Question 1

When is a voice disorder considered a voice problem?

Answer 1

When it interferes with the client’s daily life

Question 2

What is a hypothesis

Answer 2

simple, declarative statement that incorporates cause and effect and can be tested

Question 3

How do you effectively critically reason?

Answer 3

Observe Bx
Create a hypothesis
Test the hypothesis

Question 4

What is an example of a judgment/assumption versus a hypothesis?

Answer 4

Judgment: The man is inconsiderably loud
Hypothesis: The man is loud because he is hard of hearing

Question 5

What is an impairment?

Answer 5

any loss/abnormality of function

Question 6

What is a disability?

Answer 6

any restriction or lack of ability to perform an activity normal for a human

Question 7

What is a handicap?

Answer 7

the result of an individual with an impairment not being about to live a normal life

Question 8

What is the WHO model?

Answer 8

World Health Organization Model

• Integrates the perspectives of an individual’s overall health condition with the body function, participation in activity, environmental and personal factors
• Shows that two people can have the same disorder and present differently

Question 9

What is kinesthetic awareness and deliberate attention?

Answer 9

kinesthetic awareness- what does it feel like to make the sound; easy vs. effortful discrimination

deliberate attention - top-down awareness of stimuli while blocking out other stimuli

Question 10

What do SOVT exercises do?

Answer 10

Increase back pressure (supraglottal pressure)

Easy manner of phonation

Question 11

What are the severities of voice problems?

Answer 11

Mild - voice only has some difficulty some of the time

Moderate - the problem is more consistent and is usually distracting

Severe - very distracting, hard to pay attention to the content

Question 12

What are the three tasks of evaluating voice?

Answer 12

Sustained vowels
Sentence production
Spontaneous speech