Voice Therapy: Limits and Wrong Compensation
Résumé
Speaking includes long term behavioral (educational & cultural) habits, emotional factors related to one's personality, and a defined speaking situation. In order to identify the needs of a professional voice user, it is important to understand the demands of voice quality, efficiency and comfort. Vocal analysis should be based on different dimensions such as the respiratory function, the voicing and articulation manner, the overall resonance and the behaviors as well as the self evaluation. Common aims in speech therapy are i) improve manner and efficiency of glottic closure ii) adapt onset of vibration for sound iii) balance respiratory-phonatory control iv) harmonize body motion. A key success for speech therapy relies on the involvement of the patient who must be convinced that he/she has to be an active actor in the vocal management.