Categories of Voice Disorders
Organic and Functional
What are the 2 categories of voice disorders?
Respiration, phonation, and resonation subsystems
Voice Handicap Index
What does VHI stand for?
Direct and Indirect Treatment Approaches
What are the two types of treatment approaches?
Structural and Neurogenic
What are the two types of organic voice disorders?
Pharynx, nasal cavity, oral cavity
What three supraglottic structures must be coordinated for normal voice?
This measures the client's breath support during the assessment
What does the S/Z ratio measure?
Vocal Function Exercises
What does VFE stand for?
Vocal fatigue, muscle tension dysphonia, diplophonia, ventricular phonation
Example of a functional voice disorder?
Polyps, cancer, paralysis, nodules, edema, contact ulcers are all types
Types of structural voice pathologies
Patient rates how they view their own voice and how it personally affects them
What is the VHI?
Warm Up, Stretch, Contract, Power Exercise
What are the four steps of VFEs?
Type of organic voice disorder that results from physical changes in the vocal mechanism
What is a structural voice disorder?
Types include muscle tension dysphonia and false vocal fold phonation
Types of Functional pathologies
Measures on this assessment tool include overall severity, roughness, breathiness, strain, pitch, loudness
What does the CAPE-V measure?
Physiologic and Symptomatic Voice Therapy
What are the 2 categories of direct treatment approaches?
Type of organic voice disorder that results from problems with the central or peripheral nervous system innervation to the larynx that affect functioning of the vocal mechanism
What is a neurogenic voice disorder
Another name is ventricular phonation
What is another name for false vocal fold phonation?
Consensus Auditory-Perceptual Evaluation of Voice
What does CAPE-V stand for?
Joseph Stemple
Who created VFEs?