Loudness

A Closer Look at Spasmodic Dysphonia Approximately 7.5 million Americans suffer from a voice disorder (NIDCD). Voice disorders are speech disorders characterized by irregular pitch, loudness, duration, and vocal quality that are inappropriate for an individual’s age or gender (ASHA-Def of communication disorders and variations). Voice disorders are broken into three categories: functional, organic, or both. Organic voice disorders are broken down even further into structural and…

defines a person and in itself is its own language. “With a language we all understand” is the second line of the song, which fits with the book’s first chapter” What is Music?”. In this chapter the basic elements of music, such as pitch, rhythm, loudness, and more, are explained and these terms themselves are a language. Lyrics are a very basic way of connecting this song to the book, on the deeper side this song is able to connect with the book. Levitin’s view of music, is basically that it is…

much he really doubted himself even though his writings are supreme. You can also tell that all Franz wanted was the approval of his father Hermann Kafka you can tell this by one of his quotes about him "a true Kafka in strength, health, appetite, loudness of voice, eloquence, self-satisfaction, worldly dominance, endurance, presence of mind, [and] knowledge of human nature ...", by this quote alone you can see how much Kfka looked up to his father and how admiration he had for him even though…

Complications of Speech-Language Pathologists The challenges that Speech-Language Pathologists experience on a day to day basis are not commonly recognized by people who are not knowledgeable in the field. There are many hours and preparation time that Speech-Language Pathologists dedicate every day to make sure that they are helping his or her disorder(s). They work hard to ensure the parents and children that they will receive the help he or she needs to develop control over his or her…

In his poem collection Nine Horses, Billy Collins composes poems in which he portrays himself as a common man, not a successful poet laureate. Describing the art of writing, Collins records three poems ("Royal Aristocrat," "Death in New Orleans, a Romance," and "Writing in the Afterlife") emphasizing the beauty in writing as it "add[s] to the great secretarial din" ("Royal Aristocrat" 26), and showing the transition of writing as an art form from handwritten work to typed pieces. This trio takes…

We actually were able to find a side street to watch it. We were in the very front, which was awesome. Even after being pushed into other people and the loudness of the city, I was just happy to be able to witness that in person. People that lived in New York would sit on their balconies many stories up and watch it; some people were even on the roofs of their buildings. The balloons that they use are not…

On December 10th, I attended the “8th Annual Big Gay Xmas Party”. It was held at one of Madison’s most popular gay bars/dance clubs, Plan B. The Facebook event advertisement read as follows: “This December make the season gay and bright with Plan B as we celebrate the holidays the only way we know how... GAY! Join us at our 8th Annual Big Gay Xmas Party featuring DJ CMK and DJ Chomper! Special performances by Karizma Mirage, Sasha Daniels, and Kimaera Mirage. Go-go dancers and more! Absolut…

From a clinical mental health view, schizophrenia is a chronic mental illness that effects 50 million Americans (Potvin, Lungu, Tikasz, & Mendrek, (2017). Schizophrenia is recognized for its abnormal hallucinations and delusions which is known to manifest in late adolescent and early adulthood (Gasso, Sanchez-Gistau, Mas, Sugranyes, Rodriguez, Boloc, & Castro-Fornieles, 2016; Telles-Correia, Moreira, Marques, Saraiva, Moreira, Antunes, & Dos Santos, 2016). Why schizophrenia is a concern to the…

Ever since I can remember, I have always had very vivid dreams. Most of the time my dreams do not make any sense and at other times they can be emotionally unsettling, cryptic or even exhilarating. At the young age of about five or six years old, I can remember having a dream that I was a superhero with a cape. I wasn’t doing anything heroic nor did I have on a special costume – I was merely flying around over my neighborhood and remember feeling content. A few years ago while I was pregnant…

movements in muscles used for speech production. These muscles incorporate the tongue, vocal folds, lips and diaphragm. Dysarthria is weakened in communication due to shortcoming, loss of motion and incoordination of speech. It influences your pitch, loudness, voice quality, prosody, respiration and articulation. There are numerous sorts of dysarthria's, which are characterized relying upon the site of injury. The sorts of dysarthrias are: Flaccid Dysarthria situated in the Peripheral nervous…