Examining ATI Wisdom Booklets: Booklet 2 – Breathing and Speech

Last updated on: August 15, 2016 at 5:30 pm by Suzanne Titkemeyer

The order that material is presented makes no sense in these booklets. This section would make the most sense if it came after the section on the lungs. Placed there, the reader would have a basic idea of how the larynx itself works before jumping into the details of speech production. Instead, it’s tacked on to the end.
I wanna know who made these illustrations.
- This illustration has a huge amount of soft tissue in front of the mandible.
- The person has really small bottom teeth which are nearly obscured by the line that labels the tongue.
- The person also has a gaping fissure that will let food pass from the back of the tongue in front of the epiglottis and settle down on top of the thyroid cartilage.
- The larynx is an area and that was covered pretty well in the previous portions. Unfortunately, the pharynx is an area, not one spot. The diagram does a horrible job of showing that.

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