General Info
What is the name of the physician who you will partner with to treat/manage voice disorders?
What is an ENT?
What is pleural lingkage? Visceral and parietal.
How many layers make up the vocal folds?
What is 5.
Initiation of vocal folds movement begins...
What is the primary motor cortex?
What is a perceptual voice evaluation tool?
What is the CAPE-V, GRBAS and/or traditional motor speech evaluation?
For a voice disorder to be considered functional, what is the defining characteristic?
What is the voice disorder has to be related to misuse/abuse, unrelated to an organic etiology, or related to a personality condition.
What is vital capacity?
What is the amount of air that we can access during a maximal inspiration and maximal exhalation?
What is the superficial layer of the lamina propria?
How do the basal ganglia and cerebellum facilitate speech?
All motor movement is filtered through these mechanisms to smooth out movement, facilitate initiation, termination, ROM and force.
During an oral mechanism exam you note that a patient's uvula deviates to the right and they have a hoarse/breathy vocal quality. Where is the lesion.
What is left LMN lesion of cranial nerve 10?
What is an example of a neurological voice disorder?
What is ET, SD, PD, HD, etc.?
Inspiratory checking is provided by...
What is contraction of the external intercostals to slow collapse of the lung-thorax unit during speech tasks.
What are the two joints in the layrngeal complex?
What is the cricothyroid joint and cricoarytenoid joint?
What cranial nerve serves to innervate the vocal folds?
What is the vagus?
What is one way in which we assess the respiratory system during a voice evaluation?
What is maximum phonation duration, spirometry, etc.?
Who are considered professional voice users?
What is teachers, politicians, clergy, telephone operators, performers, etc.?
What are the expiratory muscles and when do they become active for speech?
What is the rectus abdominus, transverse abdominus, internal oblique and external oblique? They become active during forced breathing tasks and below FRC.
What is the name of the muscle that controls abduction of the vocal folds?
What is the posterior cricoarytenoid?
T/F: The RLN provides innervation to all of the intrinsic laryngeal muscles.
What is false? Why?
What is an example of an acoustic voice analysis software? What can it measure?
What is pratt, audacity, CSL, Visipitch? F0, SPL, jitter/shimmer, spetral analysis.
T/F: Head and neck cancer would be considered a neurological voice disorder.
What is false?
What are some of the accessory inspiratory muscles?
There are so many...
Please provide a difference between pediatric vocal folds and adult vocal folds.
Again, so many. One is that there is no differentiation between the layers of the lamina propria.
What other cortical structures are involved in voice production that influence our personality?
What is the amygdala, hippocampus, cingulate gyrus, limbic structures, etc.?
Walk me through how you complete an instrumental assessment to visualize the vocal folds?
Let's talk this through.