Page 25 - Polite-yawning_manual for SLPs

DOT THE I’SFinally, you can work on the refinement of the polite-yawning technique. In this advanced technique the movement of the mandible is omitted and only the floor of mouth and the base of tongue are moving. This ‘smaller’ movement makes the polite-yawn less conspicuous. For some laryngectomees this technique might be too difficult to master, though.In the following videos you can see the difference between the regular and the refined polite-yawning technique, both in regular video images and in X-ray recordings.