T/F: Hygienic voice therapy assumes voice disorders have a direct behavioral cause.
True
For which therapy is the weakness: the cause of the voice disorder may no longer be the precipitating factor.
Hygienic Voice Therapy
What are examples of symptomatic voice therapy?
altering tongue position chewing exercises yawn-sigh digital manipulation easy onset laryngeal massage
T/F: Physiologic Voice therapy focus is on the emotional or psychological disturbances associated with or maintaining the voice disorder
False; Psychogenic
Which voice therapy is promoted by Arnold Aronson in Clinical Voice Disorders?
Psychogenic
For which voice therapy may the cause be mechanic or neurological?
Physiologic
Who promotes Physiologic voice therapy?
Colton & Casper, Stemple, Glaze, Gerdeman
What are examples of Physiologic voice therapy?
LSVT, accent method, semi-occluded, resonance, vocal tract exercises
What therapy is considered the best treatment depending on the clinician or the patient?
eclectic voice therapy
State the therapy guidelines (7)
- patient education
- encourage patient to focus on kinesthetic of voice production
- consider using audio and visual feedback
- Don’t rush, Tx should move gradually from one step or level to the next
- the clinician must ALWAYS model the therapy tasks for the patient
- Tape your sessions
- Give specific home programs/homework
In regards to patient education, you should put client in the “_________”
“driver seat”
What affects prognosis? (5)
- recognize there is a problem
- patient compliance/willingness
- presence of psychiatric problems
- is voice problem remediable with voice tx?
- appropriateness of pt.’s expectations
T/F: Intermittent practice is very effective.
True
