Hot Topics: Voice therapy in Adults - Michigan Speech-Language

150 Pages·2013·3.62 MB·English

by  Katherine Verdolini

Hot Topics: Voice therapy
in Adults

Kittie Verdolini Abbott, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
MSHA, March 2013
Communication Science and Disorders
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
University of Pittsburgh

Context
• Historical
– Voice therapy using a
series of “facilitating
techniques” (e.g.,
Boone)
– Distinctive advance at
time of introduction;
first systematic
assembly of wide
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range of voice therapy

techniques, rationale,
and case examples
Context
• Concern
– Voice therapy approaches
based on trial and error

– Not addressed: How to get
from “here” to “there”

– Approaches lacked cohesive
theoretical framework

– Approaches lacked empirical
data (difficult to research due
to idiosyncratic nature of
combining “techniques” )

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Next generation
• “Packaged” therapies
– Lee Silverman Voice
Treatment (Ramig)

– Vocal Function Exercises
(Stemple)

– Laryngeal massage (Roy)

– Lessac-Madsen Resonant
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Voice Therapy (Verdolini)

– Accent Method (Smith et
al.)
Next generation
• Advantages
– Cohesive frameworks

– Systematic programs
allowing for (a) formal
clinician training; (b)
scrutiny by evidence-
based medicine
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Next generation
• Concerns
– Nearly evangelical

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enthusiasm for some
programs