The Little Voice

Over the course of this unit I’ve continued to develop the range and flexibility of my voice and body. The new exercises taught in class have proved helpful in performance. By centring the breath and releasing muscular tensions I can prepare my body for performance. Deeper placement of the breath produces a clearer, unconstrained sound. Panting exercises help me settle into a deeper, more confident tone. Fascia feet massaging I’ve found to be a nice pre-show ritual. I’ve learned to be conscious…

For a large number of people, their experience with lab reports and scientific documents will be limited to a lab or two they are required to take in college for a general education credit. Skills learned in these classes will most likely be quickly forgotten and never used again. However, for those that work in a scientific field, writing lab reports is a fundamental skill that will be used time and time again. Lab reports can be used to express many different types of data and prove a variety…

(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;…

communicating using their voices. Today this has not changed; however how those voices are heard, where they can be heard and by whom has changed drastically. What at one time was limited to only what was being said or written, at the time it was being documented and only heard or read by those in the immediate vicinity; can now be heard by anyone, anywhere in the world at any time. This is possible because of the dramatic advances in recording. Now, not only can voices be recorded but…

different techniques, how to breathe the correct way, how to use my voice right, different styles and ETC. for confidence preparation, and knowledge. I will have to take everything that I learn very seriously and work really hard to fully comprehend what I need to do to get me where I want to be. Vocal technique is to strengthen, support, breathing control, and the way you use your voice. We learn vocal exercises to help us support our voices by using certain muscles in…

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 the client is pinching his nose. You can…

pathologist for evaluation of her voice. An examination revealed an abnormal change in the voice, or dysphonia, most likely bilateral true vocal nodule on the medial surface of the left posterior. During therapy session, Amanda states that she first began experiencing hoarseness at least three to four years ago, when she developed a cyst in the neck. Eventually, the cyst was surgically removed in August; however, her voice never returned to normal. Her raspy voice seems to slightly increase…

Reading texts from over a hundred years ago, we often chuckle at how odd the English language was - reading Shakespeare is clearly different from reading the works of J.K. Rowling. To us, the older varieties of English have bizarre grammar, spelling, and pronunciation, which make us reluctant to accepting it. The reason why these older versions of English perplex us is because language is always changing. Modern-day English is composed of many different concepts, but for me, there are five…

is still out of town at work, fucking everything that moves. My wonderful parents agreed to take all 4 of the kids for a weekend, things are going to be great. I am really excited, I mean just the little bit of time we have with one another is amazing, imagine a whole weekend. I feel like a little girl on Christmas morning eagerly waiting to open up my gifts. Shaun keeps e-mailing me making sure I am still game, asking me what my surprise for him is, but I won 't tell. I feel so open to…

At some point in time, many people will experience problems with their voice. When speaking, words may sound broken, whispery, strangled or hoarse, and a person may struggle just to sound normal. In most cases, these vocal problems eventually go away, but if they don’t, then this condition may be a neurological disorder known as spasmodic dysphonia. Definition and Facts Dystonia is a neurological movement disorder that can affect the entire body or a specific body part. The primary…