Spasmodic Dysphonia (SD) is commonly misdiagnosed due to its similarity’s to other voice disorders. Numerous people go to the doctor because of this reason thinking they might have a severe cold or something in that nature. Patients with SD start out with either an immediate or slow onset of trouble speaking, interruptions of breathy pauses in their voice during production of specific sounds or words. It is also reported that they feel like it takes a lot more time and effort to speak than normal
Botox When people think of new fashion trends they normally think of clothes, but the newest beauty craze that has hit the middle age market is Botox. Botox injection therapy, although not completely new, has come out swinging since being approved for use in cosmetic improvements in 2002. Botox is used to eliminate the look of aging by reducing the appearance of wrinkles on the face, neck and hands. Most commonly, patients use Botox to eliminate crow’s feet around the eyes, wrinkles on the forehead
Fluency is defined as “the continuity, smoothness, rate, and/or effort with which phonologic, lexical, morphologic, and/or syntactic language units are spoken.” (ASHA) That is, fluency shows one’s proficiency in a language. If someone is learning a new language he will not be fluent. However, a mother tongue is fluent. The speaker knows sufficient information about the language to allow him to speak in fast, rich language. Fluency disorders are disruptive in the fluency of speech. Their characteristics