TBI
The sport associated with the most incidences of concussion in the United States.
Football
Secondary or concomitant behaviors accompanying disfluencies include ________________ .
Blinking; wringing hands; tense body movements; tapping; fist clenching; breathing issues
Growths that typically appear bilaterally in the midpoint of the vocal cords due to overuse or misuse are called _________________ .
vocal nodules
An SLP is doing an evaluation on a child with a hoarse voice to determine vocal cord issues. The therapist will collect a case history, ENT reports, and complete a ______________ screen as part of the evaluation.
Hearing
A complete unilateral cleft lip and palate includes the upper lip, philtrum of the nose, and part of the ___________ _________.
Hard palate
Concussions, contusions, and hematomas are examples of a ______________ head injury.
Closed Head Injury
A complete stoppage of airflow and voicing in stuttering is known as a ________________ .
Block
The most common method for visualizing and analyzing vocal cords involving a scope is ____________________ .
Videostroboscopy
A baby will soon be born with a bilateral cleft lip and palate and the parents are concerned about feeding issues. How can you educate the parents to be ready once the baby is born?
Introduce the Haberman feeder bottle; discuss the reasons why there are feeding issues; encourage the parents to ask questions and use resources provided by the hospital and doctor
The inability for the velum to make complete contact with the pharyngeal wall during speech production and swallowing is known as _____________________ .
VPI - Velopharyngeal Insufficiency
Children and adolescents who experience a head injury may have difficulty in school due to the impact on _____________________ and literacy.
Language; problem-solving; memory
Prolongation
The opening of the vocal folds for speech production is known as ___________ and the closing is known as _____________ .
Abduction; Adduction
A college student complains of a thick feeling in her throat particularly after basketball practice. She reports that she frequently has sore throats on the weekends. What are recommendations you can provide as you discuss vocal hygiene?
Be aware of vocal use and abuse; understand the parts of her lifestyle affecting her vocal cords - rest, hydration, environment - and any recent visits to the ENT for respiratory, cold, or flu.
Of the systems involved in speech production - respiratory, phonatory, articulatory, and resonance- the systems directly impacted by a cleft lip and palate include _______________________________ .
Phonatory, articulatory, and resonance
An open head injury is when the skull is _________ in some way.
Penetrated
Stuttering involves disfluencies that impact the normal _______________ of speech flow.
Rhythm
Excessive yelling, harmful acute vocal behaviors, and hard glottal attacks are examples of ___________ _____________ that cause voice disorders.
Vocal abuse
A young man in his teens is experiencing mutational falsetto as he sings and carries conversations. He is wondering what is happening to him. You explain that it is a typical developmental process known as __________________ .
Puberphonia
The Rule of 10's to assess an infant's readiness for their first surgical repair of a cleft lip and/or palate includes: 10 weeks old, 10 lbs., and ______________.
Hemaglobin (HgB) of 10
The counter blow that occurs when the brain shifts anteriorly and posteriorly in a closed head injury is called _______________ .
contrecoup
One strategy that SLP's introduce for stutterers to have increased control over their breathing and continuation of voicing is to speak on the ________________ (inhale vs. exhale)
Exhale
_____________ is a method of viewing vocal cords during swallowing and speaking.
Radiography (MBS); Laryngoscopy; Endoscopy; Videostroboscopy
A kindergarten student is showing symptoms of stuttering while in class and she is having increased difficulty when meeting new people. The special education team has referred her to you for an evaluation. What are questions you can ask her parent to discern the extent and etiology of her stuttering?
Under what conditions does she stutter? Is there a history of stuttering in the family? What seems to help her when she has disfluencies? How can you describe her disfluencies? Is there any time that she is more fluent?
The appliance introduced to assist with velopharyngeal insufficiency and closure of the soft palate in a child with cleft palate is known as an _______________ .
Obturator