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    Rita Hersan

    Speech-Language Pathologist, Voice Clinician

    VOICE CENTER

    VOCAL HEALTH

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    Care of the Speaking Voice

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    We use our voice ALL the time!!!

    care of the speaking voice???

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    Practical uses of voice

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    Speaking and Singing

    Same instrument

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    Hoarseness often occurs in the:

    singing voice

    BUT

    caused in the

    speaking voice

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    Talk a lot more than sing

    and dont pay as muchattention to speaking voice!!!

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    Lets pay more attention to the

    Speaking Voice

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    VOCAL IDENTITYdistinctive

    Rhythm of Speech

    Pitch of Voice

    Loudness of Voice

    Personality/Emotional State

    Clarity of Articulation

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    We should know how to:

    AVOID PHONOTRAUMA!

    A vocal behavior that can have abad effect on the vocal folds

    Keep the vocal mechanism

    in good shape

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    Phonotrauma

    Normal sounding voice

    production with just

    too much wrongeffort

    may result in a lump,

    hump, or bump of thevocal folds

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    Repeat after me

    1. Hoarseness is never

    normal

    2. Most voice problems

    are accumulative

    3. Most voice problemsare preventable

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    Lets pay more attention to the

    Speaking Voice

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    Voice Mis-Use???

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    Pretty Obvious Stuff!

    Yelling, screaming

    Strained voicing

    Excessive crying

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    Not quite asobvious

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    Extensivevoice use

    Backgroundnoise

    Continuedvoice use

    while sick

    Increasedvoice

    demands

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    Vocal Overuse May

    Change the

    vascularity of

    the vocal folds

    Can set aperson up for a

    bleed

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    Teaching while sick?!?!

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    Absolute Voice Rest!!!

    Any time blood is

    involved

    Sudden voice

    change

    = SILENCE

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    so goes the voice!

    Where the body goes,

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    Some Vocal Signs

    Speaking Voice:

    Pitch: too low or too high?Loudness: too soft or too loud?

    Quality: hoarse, rough or breathy?

    Voice feels tired?

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    Repeat after me

    1. Most voice problems

    are accumulative

    2. Most voice problems

    are preventable

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    Our Goal:

    Healthy Speaking Techniques!?

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    Coordination ofairflow, vocalfold vibrationand resonance

    BALANCEis key

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    Vocal Energy

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    LETS EXPLORE!

    Purse lips and say

    who

    Feel airflow at lipsSee airflow uplift the

    tissue

    Close lips aroundairflow into a m

    Behrman A, The Complete Voice Therapy Workbook.

    San Diego: Plural Publishing, April 2008.

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    LETS PRACTICE!

    Who is Lou?

    Who is Sue?

    Who are You?

    http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://bp1.blogger.com/_jS9Iv4g2muI/Rsux-LSI2FI/AAAAAAAAAh4/4X4Zex93COM/s400/whistling.jpg&imgrefurl=http://midwesternhousewives.blogspot.com/2007/08/hello-again.html&h=250&w=232&sz=24&hl=en&start=6&usg=__9bpyUhadnsZ3_TqL6xpEqNBCEus=&tbnid=xk9Sm0omoSh-2M:&tbnh=111&tbnw=103&prev=/images?q=whistling&gbv=2&hl=en
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    Breathing

    How to take a breath

    Breath Support

    Airflow Management

    what we DO

    with the breath

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    HOLD YOUR BREATH BACK

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    Hear See Feel

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    Resonant VoiceFeeling voice

    in your faceand not in

    your neck

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    FEEL THE VIBRATIONS!!!

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    Chanting

    Chant on a single pitch

    Momma made me many muffins

    Chant on 2 pitches (last pitch lowers)

    Chant on 2 pitches (last pitch with trial off)

    Sing-song style of speech = lazy articulation

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    Beginningof speech

    End of

    speech

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    The Vocal Line

    Hi my nameis Rita Hersan Today, I will

    present on the

    Healthy Speaking

    Voice

    If anyone has

    any questions,

    please ask me

    at any time

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    How to get out of the pitch ditch?

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    Rather

    Watch your starting and ending

    pitch so you dont dig yourself

    into the PITCH DITCH

    Hi my name is

    Rita Hersan

    Today, I will

    present on the

    Healthy Speaking

    Voice

    If anyone has

    any questions,

    please ask me at

    any time

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    Precise Articulation or Consonant Salad

    Feel the sounds of speech

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    Speaking Harder than Singing

    Speak more than sing

    Sensations more subtle (speech)Pay attention to singing > speaking

    We practice the same song OVER and OVER

    predictable Emotions are much more unpredictable in

    speech vs. singing

    H th b d f l

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    How the body feels,

    VOICE AND EMOTION

    so feels the voice!!!

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    BOTTOM

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    Never

    want to

    see youagain!

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    Thank you for

    your attention

    and smiles!