TY - JOUR
T1 - The effect of a 'voice course' on the voices of people with and without pathologies
T2 - Preliminary observations
AU - Amir, Ofer
AU - Dukas, Michal
AU - Shnaps-Baum, Rachel
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Several institutions provide voice practice for their teaching staff. These 'voice courses' provide a unique treatment situation, in which some participants have a diagnosed laryngeal pathology, while others have no vocal complaints. Therefore, these voice courses can be viewed as group voice therapy as well as preventive voice treatment. The present study was aimed at providing a preliminary voice evaluation of participants in such a group, prior to and following treatment, using perceptual and acoustic analyses. Sixteen male teachers, who enrolled in a voice course, participated in eight consecutive sessions. Of this group, seven teachers were diagnosed with laryngeal pathologies, while the others had none. All participants were recorded before and after treatment. Recordings were analyzed acoustically, and also evaluated perceptually by ten experienced speech pathologists. Results indicated that: (i) voice quality improved after the voice course, (ii) vocal improvement was more pronounced in the pathological group than in the nonpathological group, and (iii) the acoustic analysis paradigm yielded results that were not always readily related with those of the perceptual paradigm.
AB - Several institutions provide voice practice for their teaching staff. These 'voice courses' provide a unique treatment situation, in which some participants have a diagnosed laryngeal pathology, while others have no vocal complaints. Therefore, these voice courses can be viewed as group voice therapy as well as preventive voice treatment. The present study was aimed at providing a preliminary voice evaluation of participants in such a group, prior to and following treatment, using perceptual and acoustic analyses. Sixteen male teachers, who enrolled in a voice course, participated in eight consecutive sessions. Of this group, seven teachers were diagnosed with laryngeal pathologies, while the others had none. All participants were recorded before and after treatment. Recordings were analyzed acoustically, and also evaluated perceptually by ten experienced speech pathologists. Results indicated that: (i) voice quality improved after the voice course, (ii) vocal improvement was more pronounced in the pathological group than in the nonpathological group, and (iii) the acoustic analysis paradigm yielded results that were not always readily related with those of the perceptual paradigm.
KW - Acoustic analysis
KW - Perceptual evaluation
KW - Voice assessment
KW - Voice course
KW - Voice treatment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=26444517795&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14015430500233229
DO - 10.1080/14015430500233229
M3 - מאמר
AN - SCOPUS:26444517795
VL - 30
SP - 63
EP - 71
JO - Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology
JF - Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology
SN - 1401-5439
IS - 2
ER -