Anatomy
Contains three processes that are attachments for the respiratory muscles.
What is the sternum?
Bilateral lesions at the anterior mid-point of the muscular vocal folds.
What are vocal nodules?
Important medical information to collect during a voice assessment case history.
What is the history of prior ENT evaluation?
The acoustic measure of loudness.
What is intensity?
Voice is a primary function.
What is the larynx?
The paired laryngeal muscles that abduct the vocal folds.
What are the posterior cricoarytenoid muscles?
The vocal characteristics of a person with presbylarynis.
What are reduced vocal loudness, rough vocal quality and pitch alterations?
What is MPT/Maximum phonation time?
The acoustic measurement of average speaking pitch.
What is fundamental frequency?
The CAPE-V is used to measure the following perceptual aspects of voice.
What are the overall severity, roughness, breathiness, strain, pitch, loudness, and other characteristics?
These crossed, or X-shaped, interarytenoid muscles originate at the arytenoid cartilages and adduct the vocal folds.
What are the oblique arytenoid muscles?
A lesion occurs when the superior lamina propria portion of the vocal fold is filled with fluid.
What is Reinke's edema?
In voice disorders, 3 major vocal changes are measured acoustically and perceptually.
What are quality, frequency, and intensity?
Symptoms of difficulty breathing.
What i dyspnea?
Three major categories of interventions for voice disorders.
What are medical, surgical and behavioral?
The smallest branches of the respiratory tree.
What are bronchioles?
Rough vocal quality, hypophonia, decreased pitch range, and vocal tremor are characteristics of a voice disorder related to this disease.
What is Parkinson's disease?
A disordered finding when measuring the length of breath support (/s/) versus the length of phonation (/z/).
What is 1.4?
The most frequently occurring frequency in a spontaneous speech production.
What is habitual pitch?
Describe, determine motivation, discuss the potential therapy timeline, and teach home practice techniques.
What are the 4 initial steps to start the therapy process?
Shortens the vocal folds when contracted and is referred to as the body of the vocal folds.
What is the thyroarytenoid (TA) muscle?
Pedunculated or sessile growths on the vocal folds.
What are vocal polyps?
Range in semitones, fundamental frequency in conversation and Fo in sustained phonation.
What are tasks to complete to evaluate pitch?
The quality that describes the amplification and enrichment of vocal sound.
What is vocal resonance?
A patient can produce a soft or weak voice but not a voice with increase intensity.
What is unilateral vocal fold paralysis, vocal fold scarring or weakness from a neurological disorder?