Student voice

The laryngeal muscles of the phonatory system are comprised of a group of both intrinsic and extrinsic muscles. Out of these two muscle groups, the placement of the extrinsic muscles are what confuse me the most. The extrinsic laryngeal muscles are further divided into suprahyoid and infrahyoid muscles. The suprahyoid muscles attach superiorly to the hyoid bone and elevate the larynx and hyoid bone, while the infrahyoid muscles attach inferiorly to the hyoid bone and depress the larynx and the…

“I am Esther –” The young girl behind the desk had noticed her assessing her appearance through the windows before she finally pushed through the tinted double doors. “– and I think you’ve made a mistake. Mordecai Asher, he can’t be… He’s been arrested? ” With little more than a sigh the receptionist rose from behind her station. “Robin” she called around the partition that separated the foyer from the rest of the station. “There’s a girl here, says she’s after that kid they brought in…

A joint subcommittee was formed in December 1994 and they addressed issues about second language speakers that are audiologists, SLPs and students that have a linguistic competence of English and have an accent or a dialect. Would this have any type of affect when doing procedures? Is there any research that shows that audiologists or SLPs with a “different” dialect or accent would affect those who need their treatment? “There is no research to support the belief that audiologists and…

(2016), did conclude that MCT does increase roughness in vocal quality due to muscle rebalance in the laryngeal area after MCT; however, participants did demonstrate a softer voice which is a goal of MCT. Another benefit from this treatment approach is that it is one of the most direct treatment approach to improve individuals’ voices, which increases client motivation (Van Houtee et al., 2009). MCT has been demonstrated to decrease laryngeal pain in individuals with MTD (Reimann et al., 2016;…

In the yellow box, you can see that Mr. Hanson can produce nasalizations very well. In this image, he is making the /m/ sounds of “my motorcycle.” The nasal formants in the yellow boxes show the correct way to form a nasalization with low are dark first formant and a light space with little to no formant two. In these screenshots, you can see that Mr. Hanson’s speech is pretty much constantly a nasalization. In the boxes above, the blue box is his normal speech, and the green box is the when…

High school gives the students the chance to engage with different sports and/or extracurricular activities, many of which are not classified as sports. Show Choir is a sport that many single out and classify as an extracurricular activity. Show Choir is a group activity which combine choral singing with dancing to tell a story. Various groups travel across the United States competing for trophies. The groups are ultimately looking to acquire a championship reputation. So, what makes up a sport?…

A Critical Review of Mace and Lalli’s Linking Descriptive and Experimental Analyses in the Treatment of Bizarre Speech Mace and Lalli were interested in identifying the environmental contingencies maintaining a 46-year-old man, Mitch, with a moderate intellectual disability’s “bizarre speech” and vocalizations. (p. 553, 1991) The article states that operational definitions are available from the authors upon request, but it does provide a brief overview of what constitutes bizarre/unusual…

Is auto tune making real singers obsolete? The invention is making everyone into singers. Autotune is a audio processor that measures and alters vocal pitches and along with intents to make them sound better essentially. It is literally found everywhere in all types of music. Real singers are a commodity in today's industry due to the overuse of autotune. In the history of singing western society solo vocal performances has continued to rise from unlikely causes such as auto tune. Similar to…

arrow go. He catches it and looks at me with eyes as blank as a tv screen, I knew from the second he caught the arrow that it was my former school mate, Matthew Matthews. “Matthew?” I say reassuring myself. “‘Tis I,” he says in his mid 18th century voice. I tell him how the president of the United States hired me to assassinate Edward Snowden. “How do you know where to find him?” he asks, “I don’t, that’s why I set up a plethora…

songs. In a cappella music, the voices have no instrumental accompaniment, so the music solely consists of vocals. In my group, each girl sings her own part, and if she doesn’t sing her part correctly or loudly, the song falls apart. The absence of just one part causes the harmonies to disintegrate, or even worse, the key to change. During rehearsals, we practice our songs over and over again to avoid shifting keys.…