Peer Reviewed Article The Voice Skills Perceptual Profile: A Practical Tool for Voice Teachers

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-184
Author(s):  
Christina Shewell
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karina Vásquez Burgos ◽  
María Pilar Retamal Sandoval ◽  
Yessenia Zapata Urrutia

El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar el efecto de la terapia de Tracto Vocal semi-ocluido, sobre los parámetros acústicos de la voz en docentes de educación básica de la comuna de Chillán. La presente investigación se sitúa en la población de docentes, principal grupo de profesionales que requieren usar su voz por períodos prolongados; por lo que están más expuestos a padecer desórdenes vocales. Esta investigación propone la terapia de Tracto Vocal semi-ocluido, ya que según autores como Guzmán, Titze, Belhau entre otros, ofrece resultados inmediatos manteniendo los parámetros acústicos tono e intensidad, permitiendo que se mantenga la calidad de la voz, evitando así padecer disfonías. Es entonces, la fonoaudiología la encargada de aplicar ejercicios de calentamiento y enfriamiento vocal, con el fin de evitar efectos negativos en los parámetros acústicos tono e intensidad. Metodológicamente, la investigación se orienta al paradigma cuantitativo, de tipo descriptiva y comparativa. En relación al diseño es de tipo cuasiexperimental y longitudinal. Para este efecto se midieron los parámetros acústicos de la voz utilizando el programa de análisis acústico de la voz Praat, en un grupo experimental y control. Respecto a los resultados obtenidos se evidenciaron efectos positivos sobre los parámetros acústicos de la voz, probando así la efectividad de la terapia de tracto vocal semi-ocluido.


2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karina Vásquez Burgos ◽  
María Pilar Retamal Sandoval ◽  
Yessenia Zapata Urrutia

El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar el efecto de la terapia de Tracto Vocal semi-ocluido, sobre los parámetros acústicos de la voz en docentes de educación básica de la comuna de Chillán. La presente investigación se sitúa en la población de docentes, principal grupo de profesionales que requieren usar su voz por períodos prolongados; por lo que están más expuestos a padecer desórdenes vocales. Esta investigación propone la terapia de Tracto Vocal semi-ocluido, ya que según autores como Guzmán, Titze, Belhau entre otros, ofrece resultados inmediatos manteniendo los parámetros acústicos tono e intensidad, permitiendo que se mantenga la calidad de la voz, evitando así padecer disfonías. Es entonces, la fonoaudiología la encargada de aplicar ejercicios de calentamiento y enfriamiento vocal, con el fin de evitar efectos negativos en los parámetros acústicos tono e intensidad. Metodológicamente, la investigación se orienta al paradigma cuantitativo, de tipo descriptiva y comparativa. En relación al diseño es de tipo cuasiexperimental y longitudinal. Para este efecto se midieron los parámetros acústicos de la voz utilizando el programa de análisis acústico de la voz Praat, en un grupo experimental y control. Respecto a los resultados obtenidos se evidenciaron efectos positivos sobre los parámetros acústicos de la voz, probando así la efectividad de la terapia de tracto vocal semi-ocluido.


1997 ◽  
Vol 13 (49) ◽  
pp. 48-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cicely Berry ◽  
Patsy Rodenburg ◽  
Kristin Linklater

When I was asked if I would like to reply to Sarah Werner's article in the August issue of NTQ entitled ‘Performing Shakespeare: Voice Training and the Feminist Viewpoint’, my first reaction was that it was so unfounded in the reality of practical voice work that it was not worth the time needed to respond. But then, re-reading it, I became incensed at the notion that voice teachers, through the work of freeing the voice, are after some romantic notion of connecting with an idyllic past – a notion so utterly absurd that I spoke with my friends and colleagues, Kristin Linklater and Patsy Rodenburg, and we agreed that Ms. Werner's assumptions must be challenged. As Edgar's words imply in the last speech of King Lear: ‘Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.’ Words hurt, cost, are ugly and violent: but it is my belief that when we reach the point of articulating our dilemmas – it is then that we become free to take action. That is what my work is about. So, to follow are our answers to, and our questions for Ms. Werner.


Author(s):  
U. Dahmen ◽  
K.H. Westmacott

Despite the increased use of convergent beam diffraction, symmetry concepts in their more general form are not commonly applied as a practical tool in electron microscopy. Crystal symmetry provides an abundance of information that can be used to facilitate and improve the TEM analysis of crystalline solids. This paper draws attention to some aspects of symmetry that can be put to practical use in the analysis of structures and morphologies of two-phase materials.It has been shown that the symmetry of the matrix that relates different variants of a precipitate can be used to determine the axis of needle- or lath-shaped precipitates or the habit plane of plate-shaped precipitates. By tilting to a special high symmetry orientation of the matrix and by measuring angles between symmetry-related variants of the precipitate it is possible to find their habit from a single micrograph.


1984 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-57
Author(s):  
Sandra Q. Miller ◽  
Charles L. Madison

The purpose of this article is to show how one urban school district dealt with a perceived need to improve its effectiveness in diagnosing and treating voice disorders. The local school district established semiannual voice clinics. Students aged 5-18 were referred, screened, and selected for the clinics if they appeared to have a chronic voice problem. The specific procedures used in setting up the voice clinics and the subsequent changes made over a 10-year period are presented.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 607-614
Author(s):  
Jean Abitbol

The purpose of this article is to update the management of the treatment of the female voice at perimenopause and menopause. Voice and hormones—these are 2 words that clash, meet, and harmonize. If we are to solve this inquiry, we shall inevitably have to understand the hormones, their impact, and the scars of time. The endocrine effects on laryngeal structures are numerous: The actions of estrogens and progesterone produce modification of glandular secretions. Low dose of androgens are secreted principally by the adrenal cortex, but they are also secreted by the ovaries. Their effect may increase the low pitch and decease the high pitch of the voice at menopause due to important diminution of estrogens and the privation of progesterone. The menopausal voice syndrome presents clinical signs, which we will describe. I consider menopausal patients to fit into 2 broad types: the “Modigliani” types, rather thin and slender with little adipose tissue, and the “Rubens” types, with a rounded figure with more fat cells. Androgen derivatives are transformed to estrogens in fat cells. Hormonal replacement therapy should be carefully considered in the context of premenopausal symptom severity as alternative medicine. Hippocrates: “Your diet is your first medicine.”


ASHA Leader ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-23
Author(s):  
Kellie Rowden-Racette
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