Biographical Sketch Biographical Sketch Email Email Appointments can be made by contacting them directly either by phone or email. This course is called Phonation Disorders and will be concerned with what is commonly known as voice disorders. In our view, the term voice refers to the entire output of the speech production mechanisms as reflects what has happened to the acoustic signal when it was produced at the vocal folds and after it has been modified by the vocal tract and nasal cavities. Some courses concerned with voice disorders discuss problems that affect the vocal tract resonators and include the disorders of hypernasality or hyponasality.
Phonation refers only to the larynx and vocal folds.
In this course, we will discuss the various kinds of phonation disorders typically encountered in an ENT clinic or by the Speech-Language Pathologist, discuss the principles for the proper diagnosis of these voice problems, present various methods for assessing the functioning of the vocal folds and discuss the principles and specifics of the various treatment approaches for the disorders. The basic approach to the study of phonation disorders will be a physiological one. That is, only by understanding normal physiology of the voice as well as how it may become disturbed because of a growth, impaired neurological control or because of psychological or psychogenic factors will we be able to make accurate diagnoses and create the proper treatment approach. To be successful with a patient with a Phonation disorder, one needs a through knowledge of the system and how to test it. This course will be the start of the development of these skills.