Phonation

There has been many challenges that I have had to face during my life, yet none of those challenges compare to the one I have and am still facing. When I was about two years old my mother had noticed that whenever I cried my voice didn’t sound like any other toddler. Instead it sounded more like a whisper with some raspiness to it. She decided to take me to the hospital and there they informed her that I had a virus. These virus is named Human Papilloma Virus which is incurable. The virus has a…

11. Tiny white bumps on lips Bumps on lips go beyond just being a health issue because it lowers a person’s level of confidence, and cause emotional distress. You will often get frustrated when afflicted by tiny white bumps on lips as most of the time you may imagine the people around could be thinking you have a sexually transmitted disease. However, small white bumps on lips have various causes, some which are serious health issues while are others are simply non-issues at all. The spots we…

Whenever my brother in law calls my sister, her phone has a specific ringtone to it, she does not have strong feelings for the ringtone/song, but her husband loves it. When the song is played on the radio, she doesn’t have any strong reactions to it. The song is a neutral stimulus because it doesn't elicit any strong emotions from her. However, she loves talking to her husband and,every time she talks to him she smiles because she love him so much. Her husband is a Unconditioned stimulus…

Annotated Bibliography Ashley Raybon & Regine Yaites COMP 357 Abilene Christian University Annotated Bibliography Question: How do hormones affect the voice? Amir, O., Kishon-Rabin, L., & Muchnik, C. (2002). The effect of oral contraceptives on voice. Journal of Voice, 16(2), 267-273. doi: 10.1016/s0892-1997(02)00096-6 A group of ten women were evaluated in this study. They were divided into two groups, five who use birth control pills and five who do not use birth control pills. The…

In order for proper safe and healthy singing techniques one most understand how the velum, pharynx, tongue, jaw, lips and how they work together. A singer must also understand how all of these muscles make up the structure that contributes to production of sustained singing voice. The soft palate is responsible for closing off the nasal passages when one swallows, and also for closing off the airway. When someone sneezes, it protects the nasal passage by directing a portion of the substance to…

Jazmine Rojas S This observation was completed on February 9, 2017. The clinician who lead the therapy session was named Carrie and the Client’s name was Penelope. The client was a four ½ year old female with stuttering which had increased within the past 6-8 months. Client’s father was a stutter at a young age; however, overcame it through therapy. Client was seen by Carrie at school without parents present. Penelope was alert and cooperative during session. O During the first objective,…

2007; Ng, Wong, Wei, Wong, & Lam, 2008; Yiu, Murdoc, Hird, & Lau, 2002). Ryu et al. (2004) and Groves-Wright (2007) employed the classic measures of jitter, shimmer, NHR, relative average perturbation, voice turbulence index, and spectral tilt of phonation samples to investigate the presence of foreign substances in the larynx can induce change in the acoustical parameters. In recent years, non-linear methods of analysis have been gaining popularity in the study of vocal fold acoustics (Zhang &…

CSD 3150: Hyperkinetic Dysarthria of Huntington’s disease Huntington’s disease is a disorder that can be inherited through a defect in a gene in which there is a progressive degeneration of the brain cells. A person’s motor will become impaired, with many moments of uncontrolled involuntary movements such as jerking, imbalance and posture issues, as well as speech and swallowing issues. However, the severity of this disease varies with different stages (asha.org). Cognition is also an issue,…

It was found that children “initiate phonation at too low a level of vital capacity and also that they produce a reduced number of syllables per breath. The second problem is that they mismanage the volume of air by inappropriate valving at the laryngeal level” (Osberger and McGarr, 1982).…

any time and any place, that is, if lifestyle behaviors have not deformed the vocal instrument (i.e., excessive spicy foods, alcohol, smoking, screaming, et cetera). Singing begins with an exhalation of human vocal sounds (phonation) (NIDCD, 2015). At the point of phonation, two smooth adjacent muscle tissues in the thorax come into contact and vibrate to create resonating sound waves from the throat, mouth, and nose (NIDCD, 2015). As any vocal performer will confirm, singing is athletic, and to…