Respiration (Speech)
  • Tidal breathing
  • Breathing for speech
    • Extended utterances
    • Running speech
  • Age and gender effects on speech breathing
  • Speech breathing disorders
Objectives
  • For tidal breathing, describe forces, pressures, and volumes for inspiration and expiration
  • Describe forces, pressures and volumes for speech breathing during inspiratory and expiratory phases
  • Compare and contrast breathing for speech and tidal breathing
  • Interpret alveolar pressure, muscle pressure, and muscle activity diagrams for speech breathing (fig 2-27)
  • Explain the impact of cognitive and linguistic factors on speech breathing
  • Explain how the very young and very old differ from adults in terms of speech breathing
  • Describe the impact of disorders such as spinal cord injury and asthma on speech breathing
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Copyright 2004 by Amy T. Neel, Ph.D.
Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences
University of New Mexico