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5 Voice Tips for Teachers on Summer Break

June 4, 2024 No Comments

The summer has arrived in the northern hemisphere, so many teachers are taking time off to recharge their voices. According to multiple studies, voice disorders are common in about 80% of teachers (Martins et al 2014). That’s a huge amount of individuals who need their voices for their job teaching the thinkers and leaders of tomorrow. How can we keep these vocally athletic teachers in great vocal shape?

Vocal Function Exercises: What’s the Fuss?

May 6, 2024 No Comments

VFEs If You Please… If you’ve ever wanted to balance your voice by improving strength, endurance and coordination you may have come across vocal function

Get Intimate With Your Voice: 5 Things to Know

February 5, 2024 No Comments

Vocal anatomy and voice production physiology are areas of knowledge I continue to seek clarification in. As a young singer, an inured singer, and

Are Children Too Young for Voice Lessons?

January 9, 2024 No Comments

Babies respond to music and singing with awe and wonder, and as soon as they begin trying out sounds themselves, they begin imitating what they hear with musical intonation. Children’s songs are full of life lessons, fun sounds and repeated phrases at higher pitches so their tiny vocal folds can match easily. Singing is joyful…but could we be teaching our children about vocal anatomy too early in their lives? Read More…

Childhood Trauma…Did it Affect My Singing Voice?

May 26, 2023 No Comments

Our voices are our identity. They can help us communicate through speech or song. Voice can display mood without words, as well as create works

To Numb or Not To Numb: When Using Flexible Endoscopy

April 26, 2023 No Comments

If you have ever watched an exam for voice or swallowing, you’ve possibly seen 2 different scopes being used. The rigid scope is placed on

Top 3 Free or Cheap Apps to Make Voice Therapy Easier

March 29, 2023 No Comments

Resonant voice therapy uses messa di voce (volume glides) to help establish vocal economy during speech and singing. Vocal function exercises, a series of vocally

Drive Thru Orders: The Hell You Didn’t Expect

August 27, 2022 No Comments

When you have a fully functioning voice that communicates your wants and needs, expresses you fully without failure, you don’t realize that all that could