Voice Disorders
How pitch is measured and how loudness is measured
What is Hertz (Hz) and Decibels (dB)?
Percent of children who recover naturally from stuttering
What is 80%?
What is starting a word with a consonant sound, ending a word in a consonant cluster, three syllables in a word, use of a vowel sound in each syllable?
Atypical voice production may occur when any of these three changes occur with the vocal folds (hint: Dr. Akst)
What are closure, vibration, and symmetry of the vocal folds?
Position of the velum during the production of /b/
What is up (forming a seal)?
Five vocal parameters used to assess voice (think CAPE-V)
What are pitch, loudness, strain, breathiness, roughness?
Four factors that cause stuttering
What is genetics, emotions/temperament, speech-language, environment?
*What is NOT a cause of stuttering?
The word from the following that follows a CCVC syllable pattern: champ, play, trip
What is trip?
Speech characteristics of a motor planning disorder such as apraxia
What are difficulty with multisyllabic words, inconsistent production, difficulty with vowels, consonant distortions, difficulty with prosody?
New way of breathing after laryngectomy
What is through a stoma?
The professional a SLP should always refer a client to if there is a change in vocal quality
Who is an otolaryngologist (ENT)?
Primary stuttering behaviors
What are part-word repetitions, prolongations, and blocks?
Number of letters vs number of sounds in "chips"
What is 5 letters and 4 sounds?
Might produce hyponasal speech
What are enlarged tonsils (or any blockage of the nasal cavity)?
I might find this during an oral mech exam with a Structural difference affecting speech production,
What is cleft palate (overbite, underbite, fistula, nasal emission, enlarged tonsils, short frenum)?
Examples of a Structural, Neurological, and Functional voice disorder
What is vocal nodules (polyps, laryngitis, cancer, aging), spasmodic dysphonia (vocal fold paralysis), muscle tension dysphonia?
Iceberg analogy
What are behaviors that are below the surface that we do not see or hear such as embarrassment, shame, guilt?
A child says "fink" for "think" and "sop" for "stop"
What is substitution and omission?
Example of a speech difference
What is accent or dialect?
Evidence based approach to voice disorder with Parkinson's disease
What is the LSVT Loud program?
*What is the goal of this program?
Behaviors that might damage the vocal folds
What are yelling, screaming, forced whispering, throat clearing, smoking, drinking, coughing, not doing vocal warm ups?
Ways to interact with someone who has a stutter
What is have patience, maintain eye contact, do not finish the sentence, do not make assumptions?
*What are some barriers a person who stutters may face in society?
The three distinguishing features of a consonant sound
What are voicing, place, and manner?
Limitations of using a rigid tube through the mouth vs using a flexible tube through the nose during a videostroboscopy exam
What is only being able to say vowel sounds and may initiate a gag reflex?
Diplophonia
What is the perception of two pitches occurring at the same time?
*What is jitter? What is shimmer?