SPLP 1013 CHAPTER 13 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED A++
what does the voice reflects
personality
emotions
attitudes
dysphonia
loudness, pitch, or quality deviations outside the normal range of a person age gender and background
functional
faulty use of a normal vocal mechanism
neurological
muscle tone and control
organic
physical abnormality in the larynx
hyperfunction
excessive effort and tension results in tense sounding voice and hard glottal attacks
hypofunction
, poor laryngeal muscle tone resulting in breathy sounding voice and weak vocal power
laryngitis
acute or chronic disorders with many causes; inflammation of VF mucosa that causes mild to severe
dysphonia with lowered pitch and intermittent pitch breaks (hoarse vocal quality)
vocal nodules
common, benign, often bilateral vocal fold lesions due to abuse and misses of voice; occurs on the
anterior and middle 2/3 of VF
vocal polyps
Benign vocal fold lesions of various forms with same causes as vocal nodules; tend to be unilateral but
same location on VF as nodules and not always distinguishable from vocal nodules
contact ulcers (of vocal fold)
occurs in posterior region where folds touch
commonly occurs in hard driving males
can result from GERD
functional dysphonia
no organic physical or neurological cause
extreme tension of laryngeal and supra laryngeal regions
functional aphonia
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED A++
what does the voice reflects
personality
emotions
attitudes
dysphonia
loudness, pitch, or quality deviations outside the normal range of a person age gender and background
functional
faulty use of a normal vocal mechanism
neurological
muscle tone and control
organic
physical abnormality in the larynx
hyperfunction
excessive effort and tension results in tense sounding voice and hard glottal attacks
hypofunction
, poor laryngeal muscle tone resulting in breathy sounding voice and weak vocal power
laryngitis
acute or chronic disorders with many causes; inflammation of VF mucosa that causes mild to severe
dysphonia with lowered pitch and intermittent pitch breaks (hoarse vocal quality)
vocal nodules
common, benign, often bilateral vocal fold lesions due to abuse and misses of voice; occurs on the
anterior and middle 2/3 of VF
vocal polyps
Benign vocal fold lesions of various forms with same causes as vocal nodules; tend to be unilateral but
same location on VF as nodules and not always distinguishable from vocal nodules
contact ulcers (of vocal fold)
occurs in posterior region where folds touch
commonly occurs in hard driving males
can result from GERD
functional dysphonia
no organic physical or neurological cause
extreme tension of laryngeal and supra laryngeal regions
functional aphonia
