SLP Praxis – Voice Exam 2025
Questions and Answers
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
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, 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
Prognosis good.
Muscle tension dysphonia - --Answer --Occurs with significant over activity
of head and neck muscles during speech.
High levels of stress or depression, vocal abuse and GERD
Voice is high-pitched and strained.
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Questions and Answers
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
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, 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
Prognosis good.
Muscle tension dysphonia - --Answer --Occurs with significant over activity
of head and neck muscles during speech.
High levels of stress or depression, vocal abuse and GERD
Voice is high-pitched and strained.
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