“Sam, your cough is so bad still.” “Troy, are you sick?” “Stay away from my baby, you’re coughing.” “May I place you on a brief
Are you feeling you have to choose between stretch and flow and resonant voice therapy for treating muscle tension dysphonia?”
“In retrospect,” Grace says, “it’s heartbreaking to think of someone in a voice care position dismissed my complaints because there was no evidence of pathology from stroboscopy.” She says her feelings were 100% real.
Several case studies show that phase asymmetry can result from SLN paralysis, but since that can surface in RLN paresis and paralysis, it is not a solid diagnosing factor.
The amount of fitness instructors who experience voice issues that continue to recur is 44-70%, according to Rumbach 2013. 78% report feeling a change in their voices after teaching just one class. And the very sad thing is that 80% of these folks regularly use microphones, but they constantly malfunction or the instructor has no idea how to use them efficiently.
It is entirely possible to obtain a low-cost suite for acoustic analysis to better serve your patients and track progress.
If you’re like me, we have the disease of being busy. I have caseloads, business opportunities, blogs, family, taxes, billing, and as my head
As a graduate student in Speech-Language Pathology, there are so many names to learn about with regard to terms coined, rehabilitation techniques researched and therapy
What Kittie Verdolini Abbott likes to call the “Scream Study” shows just that. She and her cohorts (including Ryan Branski and Clark Rosen) took a group of 9 folks and subjected them all to the same task to “tax” their vocal fold tissue (talking loudly for 1 hour, with a few small breaks in between). Then, they separated them into 3 groups.
Fast-forward to your awesome new job, but after the newness wears off, you are stuck with seemingly unattainable productivity goals, or IEP’s goals that just will absolutely never end. You may feel pressure to qualify a student or patient for therapy.
