Vocal folds

Developmental or Acquired Condition. The problem is a developmental condition. Geoff began stuttering around the age of 3 years old, which would come and go, with periods of fluency that lasted 2 months. Because of these fluency periods, Geoff’s parents believed it would go away with time and therefore wasn’t seen by an SLP until he was 13. It was then that he was diagnosed with severe stuttering. Geoff’s stuttering is classified as developmental because the onset occurred between ages 2-5, and…

Dysarthria is a speech disorder caused by a stoke, cerebrum damage, tumors, or Parkinson's disease. Dysarthria damages 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…

then enters the larynx to give sensory innervation of the supraglottic region. The ESLN passes over or pierces the inferior pharyngeal constrictor muscle aiming to innervate the cricothyroid muscle. The main function of this muscle is to keep the vocal folds under tension (Botelho et al., 2009). Therefore, damaging the ESLN leads to paralysis of cricothyroid muscle with subsequent loss of high pitch…

People who have performance anxiety have no difficulty with social interaction. It’s when they have to do something in front of people that anxiety takes over and they get worked up over the possibility of embarrassing themselves in front of others. Simple things in everyday life like eating in a restaurant, signing a piece of paper in front of a clerk, speaking up, or going to parties can provoke performance anxiety. For males with performance anxiety, urinating in a public restroom is often…

Whether “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” or “not easy to send a boy off to die without talking about it first,” in an ideal justice system, all evidence must be examined without reasonable doubt (Lee, 119) (Rose, 12). Accepting a justice system where juries decide upon the verdict, society often conforms itself to the ideologies and prejudices of the people on the jury. Generally, society becomes desensitized to these verdicts and accepts them as impartial even when they’re disproportionately…

An articulation disorder occurs when an individual has trouble with producing specific sounds. For example, a person may substitute sounds or leave out parts of a word. An individual could even change part of the word or add sounds to the word. After viewing therapy for articulation disorders, I concluded that the SLP will target the specific sounds that the patient is having problems producing. For example, in this specific video clip, the child is fronting her velars, so the SLP wants to…

The Light in the Fog She wandered into the fog. The fog wrapped her in postnatal gloom. Deep in the bowels of her being, she flopped like a rag doll. Unable to stand, she crawled the wasteland. "Goo," gurgled Emma. Lisa turned at the sound. She roused herself from the numbness that weighed her down and stumbled to the cot. The Misery of Sin One, two, three, and out goes he! In tailored suit and leather shoes, Mr Loral Johnson, MP, strode to the Iron Door and pressed the button. Inside a…

internal struggles she battles with that evolve from such a young age. Though some scenes were not as believable as others, I think that Alexis gave an excellent overall performance playing the role of Marie Antoinette. Through her facial expressions, vocal tones…

physical traits that people try to alter on a dog is vocalization because they do not want their dog to irritate them with their constant barking. Many owners would request procedures to devocalize their dogs such as laryngeal paralysis that remove vocal fold masses. Often, this would hurt the dogs physically and emotionally. Humans should not be devocalizing their dogs through surgery, or with any alternative methods, because it restricts their way of communicating with other dogs and humans,…

The Upper Respiratory Tract The human respiratory system involves complex organization of structural and defense mechanisms for the inhalation and exhalation of gases. The primary function of the respiratory system is to breathe air, provide oxygen to the bloodstream, and expel carbon dioxide. The respiratory system also provides transport of respiratory gases, internal respiration, pulmonary ventilation, and external respiration. There are two zones of the respiratory system, the conducting…