Voice Disorders and their Management

1. Front Matter

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2. The physiology of phonation

   • Robert Fawcus

   Pages 1-19

3. The causes and classification of voice disorders

   • Margaret Fawcus

   Pages 20-38

4. Assessment of the dysphonic patient

   • Margaret Gordon

   Pages 39-72

5. Visual feedback in the management of dysphonia

   • Allen Hirson, Robert Fawcus

   Pages 73-100

6. Laryngeal disorders in children

   • Andrew Johns

   Pages 101-111

7. Therapy and management of the dysphonic child

   • Elaine Hodkinson

   Pages 112-123

8. Laryngeal disorders in adults

   • Andrew Johns

   Pages 124-138

9. Hyperfunctional voice: The misuse and abuse syndrome

   • Margaret Fawcus

   Pages 139-175

10. When is a voice disorder psychogenic? Some considerations for diagnosis and management

    • Margaret Freeman

    Pages 176-201

11. Voice in people with cerebral palsy

    • Kay Coombes

    Pages 202-237

12. Voice problems in the dysarthric patient

    • Sheila Scott, Brian Williams

    Pages 238-258

13. Vocal-cord paralyses

    • Malcolm D. Stockley

    Pages 259-271

14. Adductor spastic dysphonia: Diagnosis and management

    • Margaret Stoicheff

    Pages 272-282

15. The voice of the deaf

    • Sheila Wirz

    Pages 283-303

16. Mutational disorders of voice

    • Robert Fawcus

    Pages 304-313

17. The voice of the transsexual

    • Judith Chaloner

    Pages 314-332

18. Post-radiotherapy voice

    • Margaret Stoicheff

    Pages 333-336

19. Phonosurgery

    • Marc Bouchayer, Guy Cornut

    Pages 337-355

20. An interdisciplinary voice clinic

    • Tom Harris, Sara Collins, David D. Clarke

    Pages 356-375

Since this book was first published, four years ago, there has been a considerable upsurge of interest in the field of both normal and abnormal voice production. Tangible evidence of this lies in the publication of the Journal of Voice in the United States, and in the UK the formation of the British Voice Association. This organization has attracted an increasing membership from professionals involved in all aspects of voice care and use - actors and singers, laryngologists and speech therapists, teachers and phoneticians. The Association holds regular study days, holds an annual two-day symposium, and publishes a Newsletter which attracts entries from this broad spectrum of professionals. We have also seen an increase in the number of specialist voice clinics, and in the two final chapters in this book a contrast is presented between such a specialist setting and the more typical clinic that operates in the majority of general hospitals. This last chapter now contains a breakdown of voice referrals over an eight-year period, which must represent a unique published study in this country. There still remains, however, little research into the management of voice disorders. There is clearly a need for more efficacy studies into specific treatment methods, and the single case-study designs developed in the field of aphasia would seem to be appropriate here.

• care
• clinic
• hospital
• hospitals
• management
• organizations
• production
• research
• speech
• speech therapy
• treatment
• voice

• Department of Clinical Communication Studies, City University, London, UK

  Margaret Fawcus

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