Voice of America

on. The author of Lord of the Flies, William Goulding, reveals that representative governments are what makes perfect societies through the neglecting of powerful voices in the novel and miscommunication between the older boys on the island. The neglecting…

When starting something new or changing an aspect of your life, you may have a little voice in your head that is doubtful of your abilities to succeed. The little voice that says things like “I am such a disappointment” or in my case, “Why did I even think about taking Psychology 150? I can not pass that class.” This little voice, as small as it may be, slowly eats away at your confidence until there is nothing left...unless you learn how to diminish it. On the same note, while…

Our voice is important because it defines us as an individual; it is our voice identity. Every person’s voice is different from each other which make it unique. Our voice does numerous amounts of things for us and one of the things that it can do is detect how we are feeling. For example, if a person is sad, his/her voice would indicate that because his/ her pitch would be lower. This would occur due to the decrease of the frequency. In Dr. Patel’s videos, she explains the importance of our…

Because Haas and Flowers (1988) conducted their own research, they are speaking from their own point of view, and because research requires vigorous planning and execution, an active voice is used to reflect that. Haas and Flowers (1988) also avoid complicated jargon so that the study speaks for itself and is easier to digest for the audience. The discourse community also had the authors use Times New Roman font in size twelve, because…

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?…