Voice Disorders
This properly represents an individual by corresponding to their gender, age, group, occupation, society, and community, and does not call attention to itself.
It's estimated that this portion of the population will experience some sort of voice impairment in their lifetime.
What is 1/3?
A patient's _____ has an effect on the perceptions and feelings they have on their voice disorder, and therefore has an effect on the patient's overall quality of life.
What is culture?
True or False: The goal of treatment is to reduce communication and promote barriers.
What is false?
The cognitive and behavioral efforts directed to the management of either external or internal demands of a specific stressful encounter that may be exceeding an individual's adaptation resources.
What is coping?
These are seen as roughness, breathiness, strain, weakness, abnormal pitch, loudness, and/or resonance, hoarseness, and aphonia.
What are signs and symptoms of a voice disorder?
True or False: Most children who experience voice disorders are under age 8.
False. Most children are between the ages of 8 and 14 years.
This is a self-administered assessment of voice handicap created to take into account not only voice measures and videoendoscopic measurements, but also social and cultural factors as well.
What is the voice handicap index (VHI)?
This approach "focuses on aspects of the patient that affect vocal communication such as cognitive, behavioral, psychological functions and environment."
What is an indirect approach?
Reflected by differences in vocal effects, speech rate, articulation, pitch average, range and changes, intensity, and voice quality
What are emotions?
This type of voice disorder refers to the problems with the parts of the central or peripheral nervous systems that control the larynx.
What is neurogenic voice disorder?
This type of cancer is more common in men and results in loss of voice.
What is laryngeal cancer?
Attempts to measure vocal output using computerized technology to measure acoustics and aerodynamics are typical for voice disorders assessment, however, these things do not account for the patient's own ____ regarding vocal function.
What are perspectives?
These 3 direct approaches are included in the textbook.
What are the hygienic, physiological, and symptomatic approach?
Individuals in ______ are more likely to cope with a social lifestyle.
What are collectivist cultures?
True or False: The types of voice disorders can often overlap and interact with each other.
What is true?
Polyps, nodules, and cysts are considered this type of etiology.
Non-cancerous lesion
This is the main weakness of the voice handicap index.
What is it's length?
This approach is defined as "direct modification of altered vocal characteristics."
What is the symptomatic approach?
Clinicians should identify _____ which impede rehabilitation.
What are maladaptive vocal strategies?
The result of a coordinated set of parameters (breathing, phonatory mode, resonance, articulation, etc.) that represent a specific professional category
What is preferred voice?
True or false: More than half of the teachers in America will experience a voice problem at some point in their lives.
True. 57.7% of American teachers experience vocal problems.
The VHI consists of 30 items across the span of three domains: functional, physical, and _____ aspects of the voice.
What is emotional?
An example of this type of approach is the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment
What is physiological approach?
Interpretation of a person's vocal characteristics, such as vocal effects, speech rate, articulation, pitch average, range, and changes, intensity, and voice quality can lead to developing _____.
What are vocal stereotypes?