Voice Assessment: Critical Elements and Auditory Perceptual Analysis

To ensure the patient comprehends the reason for referral to address their voice disorder.

To understand the root cause of the voice disorder and its progression over time.

To assess if tension in other areas of the body could be contributing to the voice disorder.

<p>Using descriptive terms or a scale system to characterize the voice quality.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hard glottal attacks, glottal fry, breathiness, and diplophonia.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To understand the variability and limitations in the patient's pitch production.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reason for referral, medical history, onset and duration of dysphonia, occupation, social activities, eating habits, patient's personality, self-rating of dysphonia.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is used to judge voice quality and detect any deviations from normal voice.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Roughness, breathiness, strain, pitch, diplophonia, aphonia, pitch instability, tremor, vocal fry, falsetto, wet/gurgly quality, loudness, overall severity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They can be used to ensure accuracy in judgment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To collect essential information about the patient including name, age, address, telephone, date, examiner, referral source, reason for referral.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It helps in understanding the overall severity of the voice disorder.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Pathology, scarring, pitch, loudness, hyperfunction, hypofunction, anxiety, subglottic driving force</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Closed and open phase timing</p> Signup and view all the answers

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<p>Larger than normal posterior gap, Spindle shaped, Hourglass closure, Irregular closure</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Measurements of air pressures and air flows</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An aerodynamic sound generator and resonator system</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Helps view the larynx during connected speech tasks. Allows a broader view of the vocal tract and supraglottic region, tonsil, and base of tongue region.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Darker image. Limited by disruptive movements of the velum or swallows. At times it is difficult to achieve a stable image.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It demonstrates the gross movements of the laryngeal structures, provides immediate image of presence or absence of pathology and a permanent visual record. It also shows the characteristics of vocal fold vibration and the integrity of the mucous membrane fold covering.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rigid or flexible endoscope, video camera, light source (halogen and xenon), digital recorder, monitor, printer, and computer interface.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Trachea, arytenoid, vocal process, true vocal fold, epiglottis, false vocal fold, anterior commissure.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Glottic closure observed during vibration of the vocal folds. Amplitude of vibration. Lateral excursion of the vocal folds.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Maximum phonation time (MPT)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Volume divided by MPT (volume in liters / MPT in sec)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Concentrates on discovering the behavioral causes of the voice disorder and modification/elimination of the causes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Daniel Boone in his text The Voice and Voice Therapy (1971)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Breathiness, inappropriate pitch, loudness, hard glottal attacks, and so on</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Airflow volume will vary with these factors</p> Signup and view all the answers