Symptomatic Voice Therapy Techniques – Flashcards

Circumlarngeal massage & digital manipulation -decreases muscle tension, can lower larynx, decreased thyrohyoid tension Decrease 'supraglottic' muscle tension: -Tongue stretches, yawns, and 'Deep Sniff'

USe of Pre-phonation Glottal airflow to eliminate hard glottal attacks -easy onset/ linking -yawn-sign -Chewing technique for hard glottal attacks/hyperfunction -Chant talk technique for hard glottal attacks/hyperfunction (has constant air flow) -Biofeedback monitoring of productions (use of instrumental devices)

Confidential Voice -Used post-surgically, or post-injury (nodules, polyps, swelling etc) -Eliminate hard glottal attacks Goal: Easy onset of phonation, decreased impact stress, decreased medial compression Consists of 'just audible' breathy phonation but NOT a whisper Is a temporary voicing technique, not a permanent technique

Purpose: Improve glottic closure, VF strength Useful for: VF paresis, VF paralysis, bowing, presbylaryngis Techniques: Vocal Fxn Exerciser; Resonant Voice, LAryngeal muscle relaxtion exercise

A physiological approach for Parkinsons's Focus is on Loud Phonation Tasks: -Loud sustained /a/ -Pitch glides up and down -Loud phonation on 10 functional phrases -Then, generalization to sentences, short paragraghs, reading passages, controlled conversations, spontaneous conversation, and speech in noise

Teaching auditory discrimination Relaxation Therapy- progressive relaxation Relation exercises for jaw, tongue, neck, shoulders Shaping vegetative vocal productions like laugh, cough throat clear, hum, yawn-sigh, phonation on inhalation

Breathing exercises to train abdominal breathing Breathing exercises to increase control of expiration Training coordination of breathing and phonation Exercises: lower back breathing or abdominal breathing, Dante Pavone Breathing Exercises, Vocal Function Sustain Exercises Teach expiration with voice occuring simultaneously