Anatomy
A reflection of who I am as a person and a mirror of my emotion.
What is the human voice?
The measurement of loudness.
What is Decibel dB?
Callouses localized to the vocal folds caused by overuse of the voice.
What are vocal nodules?
A reaction to extreme stress or change that creates a whispered voice with no structural abnormalities.
What is a cleft palate?
It regulates sound energy and air pressure in the oral and nasal cavities.
What is the velopharyngeal mechanism?
The measurement of pitch.
What is Hertz? Htz
Painful blisters on the surface of the vocal cords.
What are Contact Ulcers?
Using a continuous high pitch voice while avoiding transition to adulthood.
What is mutational falsetto?
Audible air coming out of the nose while speaking.
What is nasal air emission?
It move up and seals off the nasopharynx keeping air from escaping through the nose.
What is the velum?
An abnormal voice that doesn't meet daily needs - even if others do not perceive it as different or deviant.
What is a voice disorder?
Vascular lesions caused by trauma to the vocal cord(s).
What are vocal polyps?
Abnormal vocal activity such as hoarse, strained, breathy, aphonia, intermittent pitch breaks with no structural abnormalities and no neurological conditions.
What is muscle tension dysphonia?
What is hypernasal? or Nasality
The smooth muscles that vibrate as air passes over to produce sounds.
What are the vocal cords? vocal folds
Changes in the voice that occur suddenly or over time - described as hoarse, rough, raspy, strained, weak, breathy, or gravely.
What is dysphonia?
The most serious lesions to be found on the vocal cords or in the larynx.
What is laryngeal cancer?
The type of treatment sometimes needed alongside voice therapy.
What is psychological treatment? What is counselling?
The phonemes that should be produced with nasality.
What is /m/ /n/ /ng/?
Innervates the Larynx for sound production.
What is Cranial Nerve X the Vagus?
Involuntary spasms in the muscles of the larynx that causes the voice to break and have tight, strained, strangled sound.
What is spasmodic dysphonia?
Connective tissue growing between the vocal folds.
What is laryngeal web?
The professional needed to rule in or out all organic or functional voice and resonance disorders before an SLP does any evaluation or treatment?
What is an ENT, and Otolaryngologist?
The gold standard of a resonance evaluation.
What is auditory-perceptual evaluation?