A senior from Dunedin, Aneesha Pretto is double-majoring in French and communication sciences and disorders. She is a member of the International Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi and the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, and she is a CLAS Massey Scholar, a McNair Research Fellow, and a National Achievement Scholar. She has volunteered for numerous organizations, including the VA Medical Center Hospital and the Minority Mentoring Program. As a result, the voice produced by patients with ADSD is perceived as broken and strained.
Patients report a high degree of physical effort during speaking.
In the past, research has focused on defining the pathophysiological features of ADSD from both a physiological and an acoustic perspective. Parameters will be examined prior to a treatment used to remediate the disorder and after receiving the treatment. The benefits of performing an acoustical amplitude analysis as opposed to conventional frequency analysis will be discussed.