Patient adherence to voice therapy presents a problem in voice treatment. Although voice therapy has demonstrated efficacy for a variety of disorders, it is limited by poor patient adherence to practice and generalization of a target voice technique between sessions and high drop-out dates. Typically, patients can produce this target technique with therapist assistance during their treatment se...

Background Medically unexplained loss or alteration of voice-functional dysphonia-is the commonest presentation to speech and language therapists (SLTs). Besides the impact on personal and work life, functional dysphonia is also associated with increased levels of anxiety and depression and poor general health. Voice therapy delivered by SLTs improves voice but not these associated symptoms. Th...

Children with voice disorders do respond to treatment, with vocal hyperfunction being the predominant disorder on the caseload of the pediatric voice clinician. This article reviews the literature in describing what is known about these children and typical disorders, prevention of voice disorders, the need for treatment, the referral patterns of teachers and others, and typical management prog...

BACKGROUND Poor voice quality due to functional dysphonia can lead to a reduced quality of life. In occupations where voice use is substantial it can lead to a loss of employment. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effectiveness of interventions to treat functional dysphonia in adults. SEARCH STRATEGY We searched MEDLINE (PubMed, 1950 to 2006), EMBASE (1974 to 2006), CENTRAL (The Cochrane Library, ...

SUMMARY This is a retrospective report on clinical features, laryngoscopic examinations, and follow-up markers of laryngeal manifestation described as bamboo nodes in three female patients with transverse cystic lesions of the vocal folds, treated with logopedic therapy. This study examines logopedic and phoniatric aspects in patients with submucosal "bamboo joint-like nodes" of both vocal fold...

Voice and speech therapy can be performed in various ways depending on the situation, although it is generally a face-to-face manner. Telepractice refers to provision of specialized voice by speech-language pathologists for assessment, therapy, counseling applying telecommunication technology from remote location. Recently, due pandemic situation active use non-face-to-face platforms, interest ...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Mutational falsetto is a functional voice disorder characterized by failure of the male high-pitched preadolescent voice to transition to the lower pitch of adolescence and adulthood. Few objective outcomes data exist regarding the effectiveness of voice therapy for this poorly understood disorder. This study examined the immediate effects of a single therapy session using...

INTRODUCTION Hyperkinetic (hyperfunctional) dysphonia is a common pathology. The disorder is often found in vocal professionals faced with high vocal requirements. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of vocal therapy on voice condition characterized by hyperkinetic dysphonia with prenodular lesions and soft nodules. METHODS The study included 100 adult patients...