BASLP 3rd Semester Notes  » Paper 1: Voice and its Disorders

Unit 4: Management of Voice

• Voice therapy orientation: basic principles, goal setting and approaches
• Vocal hygiene and preventive counselling
• Symptomatic voice therapy – voice facilitation techniques
• Psychological approaches to voice therapy – psychoanalysis, rational emotive therapy and cognitive behavior therapy
• Physiological approach – breathing and postural techniques
• Holistic voice therapy approaches -1: accent therapy, confidential voice therapy,
• Holistic voice therapy approaches – 2: vocal function exercises, resonant voice therapy, Lee Silverman voice therapy
• Medical and surgical procedures in the treatment of benign vocal fold lesions: pharmaceutical effects on voice, phono surgery : re-innervation techniques, laryngeal framework surgeries, micro laryngeal excision
• Professional voice care