COMD 5070: Voice Measures 2025/2026
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You cannot ..............unless you know how the normal system works - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔understand a disorder
Voice problems come from......Therapy aims to..................Detailed
information about the activity of the larynx helped assessment and
treatment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔disordered vocal fold activity
improve vocal fold movements
Why must we know the physiology of a voice disorder to treat it? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔there can be several different causes of a voice disorder.
These disorders may share several perceptual features. (Hoarseness or
roughness). They may arise for a variety of reasons.
,One motivation for us to get more physiologic detail of what's going on at
the level of the larynx is that we can understand the etiology or the cause of
the voice disorder in greater detail. Then we can tailor make our therapy to
address the disordered physiology.
What is a laryngeal mirror exam? Who typically does this exam? What can
you typically see? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔mirror is placed toward the back of the
mouth. The clinician holds the tongue of the patient.
She shines a light at the mirror, which is reflected down to the larynx.
The image is reflected back up so that person can see the structures of the
larynx in a low level of detail.
Physician that doesn't specialize in voice
gross abnormalities in structures
Why do they pull on the tongue in a laryngeal mirror exam? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔This helps tug on the epiglottis, the cartilage at the front of the larynx. It
, helps to pull it out of the way so when you hold the mirror in place, you
have a less obstructed view of the vocal folds.
What kind of sounds can the pt do in a laryngeal mirror exam? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔sustained phonation /i/
What is a rigid scope exam? who typically performs these? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔a rigid endoscope, a metal rod that contains fiber optic cables, which
carry light from a bright light source. This light shines from the end of the
scope, downward toward the larynx. There's also a lens on the tip of the
scope that brings an image back up and through fiber optic cables to a
camera which can then display it on a screen.
only see vocal folds, no other structures
only phonate vowel
More detailed
ENT and SLPs in voice clinic
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Exam Questions and Answers | 100%
Solved
You cannot ..............unless you know how the normal system works - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔understand a disorder
Voice problems come from......Therapy aims to..................Detailed
information about the activity of the larynx helped assessment and
treatment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔disordered vocal fold activity
improve vocal fold movements
Why must we know the physiology of a voice disorder to treat it? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔there can be several different causes of a voice disorder.
These disorders may share several perceptual features. (Hoarseness or
roughness). They may arise for a variety of reasons.
,One motivation for us to get more physiologic detail of what's going on at
the level of the larynx is that we can understand the etiology or the cause of
the voice disorder in greater detail. Then we can tailor make our therapy to
address the disordered physiology.
What is a laryngeal mirror exam? Who typically does this exam? What can
you typically see? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔mirror is placed toward the back of the
mouth. The clinician holds the tongue of the patient.
She shines a light at the mirror, which is reflected down to the larynx.
The image is reflected back up so that person can see the structures of the
larynx in a low level of detail.
Physician that doesn't specialize in voice
gross abnormalities in structures
Why do they pull on the tongue in a laryngeal mirror exam? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔This helps tug on the epiglottis, the cartilage at the front of the larynx. It
, helps to pull it out of the way so when you hold the mirror in place, you
have a less obstructed view of the vocal folds.
What kind of sounds can the pt do in a laryngeal mirror exam? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔sustained phonation /i/
What is a rigid scope exam? who typically performs these? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔a rigid endoscope, a metal rod that contains fiber optic cables, which
carry light from a bright light source. This light shines from the end of the
scope, downward toward the larynx. There's also a lens on the tip of the
scope that brings an image back up and through fiber optic cables to a
camera which can then display it on a screen.
only see vocal folds, no other structures
only phonate vowel
More detailed
ENT and SLPs in voice clinic
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