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Vocal Hygiene
Maintaining a Sound Voice

Second Edition
Barbara D. Weinrich, Renee O. Gottliebson, Wendy D. LeBorgne
Details:
1 lbs
Included Media:
DVD or Online Access
ISBN13:
978-1-59756-800-5
Release Date:
08/10/2016
$59.95

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Vocal Hygiene: Maintaining a Sound Voice, Second Edition provides practical, didactic information regarding vocal dysfunction and strategies to promote vocal health. Vocal behaviors, environmental and nutritional factors, and the role of illness are presented with visual images to educate the general public regarding the practice of preventative vocal care. The second edition includes newly developed sections for vocal hydration and vocal wellness for singers and speakers.

It is an excellent tool for patients in medical offices and clinicians in speech-language pathology training programs and comes as a DVD or web-based video, including an accompanying PowerPoint presentation which provides important information which defines vocal dysfunction and identifies factors to promote a healthy voice.

Contents:

  • What is Vocal Dysfunction?
  • Promoting Vocal Hygiene
  • Vocal Behaviors
  • Environmental Factors
  • Reflux
  • Hydration
  • Types of Vocal Hydration
  • Improving Vocal Hydration
  • Vocal Wellness for Singers and Speakers
  • Voice-Body Connection/Body Awareness
  • Vocal Warm Ups
  • Vocal Cool Downs
  • Resonant Speech


With contributions by Elizabeth Erickson-DiRenzo.

What is Vocal Dysfunction?
Promoting Vocal Hygiene
Vocal Behaviors
Environmental Factors
Reflux
Hydration
Types of Vocal Hydration
Improving Vocal Hydration
Vocal Wellness for Singers and Speakers
Voice-Body Connection/Body Awareness
Vocal Warm Ups
Vocal Cool Downs
Resonant Speech

About The Authors

Barbara D. Weinrich

Barbara D. Weinrich, PhD, CCC-SLP, is professor emerita in the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology at Miami University (Ohio); research associate at the Center for Pediatric Voice Disorders at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio; and fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). She has presented workshops and her research at the state and national level since 1975.


Renee O. Gottliebson

Renee O. Gottliebson, PhD, CCC-SLP, is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Her clinical and research interests include the evaluation and treatment of voice disorders, particularly the care and training of the professional voice. Dr. Gottliebson has presented research and workshops at the annual meetings of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (2005, 2009) and The Voice Foundation (2014, 2015).


Wendy D. LeBorgne

Wendy D. LeBorgne, PhD, CCC-SLP, is a voice pathologist, a singing voice specialist, and director of the Blaine Block Institute for Voice Analysis and Rehabilitation and The Professional Voice Center of Greater Cincinnati.

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This product is available as a web-based product or on DVD.

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