SLP Praxis – Voice Exam With Complete Solution

suprahyoid muscles - Answer digastric, stylohyoid, mylohyoid, geniohyoid, genioglossus and hyoglossus Injection Method of Esophageal Speech - Answer the patient impounds the air in the oral cavity pushes it back into the esophagus and vibrates the cricopharyngeus muscles Inhalation Method of Esophageal Speech - Answer - the patient is taught to inhale rapidly while keeping the esophagus open and relaxed. The inhaled air passes through the esophagus and sets its tissues into vibrator motion. Partial submucous cleft with bifid uvula - Answer Hypernasality, accompanied by decreased intramural breath pressure, leading to difficulties with adequate production of fricatives, affricates and plosives. Blom Singer Device - Answer Tracheostomy patients can shunt air from the trachea to the esophagus so the pt can speak on pulmonary air Transgender Voice Therapy - Answer Combination of counseling, surgery and voice therapy to teach a more feminine pitch levels and comm patterns. Spasmodic Dysphonia Treatment - Answer would be treated with co2 laser surgery, RLN resection, botox, voice therapy or combo Psychogenic voice disorders - Answer AKA "functional disorders. occur when voice is abnormal in presence of normal laryngeal structures. Aphonia in a sense of any organic cause treated with counseling or psychotherapy, or behavior therapy. Historical (conversion) aphonia - Answer No structural pathology, physiological or neurological basis for voice loss. Sudden or gradual Often occurs after emotional trauma