Week Nine

Question 1

True or false: how we hold our body effects our voice

Answer 1

True

Things such as:
- Awkward posture
- Appropriate settings of face, lips, jaw, tongue, soft palate, pharynx, and larynx with no excess muscle constriction
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Question 2

What are the 8 parameters to consider in management?

Answer 2

• Body
• Breath
• Channel
• Phonation
• Resonance
• Pitch
• Loudness
• Articulation

Question 3

What are 7 voice therapy programmes?

Answer 3

• LSVT
• Voice function exercises
• Accent Method
• Confidential voice therapy
• Resonant voice therapy
• Laryngeal manual therapy
• Manual circumlaryngeal therapy

Question 4

What are some forms of direct intervention?

Answer 4

• Auditory
• Modification of auditory input
• Sensorineural-monitoring
  - Pitch
  - Loudness
  - Voice quality
• Conduction-masking

Question 5

What are some forms of indirect intervention?

Answer 5

Pedagogy
- Provide knowledge and strategies to modify vocal health

Counselling
- Identification and modification of psychosocial factors that negatively impact on vocal health

Question 6

What are some somatosensory intervention?

Answer 6

Pain monitoring

Question 7

What are some discrimination exercises?

Answer 7

Semi occluded vocal tract

Question 8

What are some visual processing exercises?

Answer 8

Mirror use

Question 9

What are some musculoskeletal intervention?

Answer 9

Posture adjustment

Question 10

What are some respiratory intervention?

Answer 10

• Loudness modification
• respiratory coordination