Voice and Voice Therapy, The:United States Edition - Tapa dura

The best-selling voice therapy text on the market, The Voice and Voice Therapy enters its eighth edition with extensive revisions, including thoroughly expanded content, updated pictures and figures, and improved teaching pedagogy elements. In addition, the new edition includes an updated DVD that brings voice problems and therapy to life for students. Still the most complete voice treatment textbook available, The Voice and Voice Therapy boasts the most up-to-date evidence-based practice and outcomes assessment and voice therapy facilitation techniques available today, while the comprehensive companion DVD illustrates voice problems in children and adults, as well as methods of relevant therapy, enabling students to see and hear what they are reading about. The eighth edition divides voice disorders into four causal areas (psychogenic, muscle tension, organic, and neurogenic), with each identified issue presented with particular evaluation procedures and strategies. The text also covers disorders that are not often addressed in other books-including sulcus vocalis, muscle tension dysphonia, and paradoxial vocal fold dysfunction.

The best-selling voice therapy text on the market, the eighth edition of The Voice and Voice Therapy has been extensively revised to include thoroughly expanded content, updated figures and references, and improved teaching pedagogy.

Still the most complete voice treatment textbook available, The Voice and Voice Therapy boasts the most up-to-date evidence-based practice and outcomes assessment and voice therapy facilitation techniques available today, while an updated companion DVD illustrates voice problems in children and adults, as well as methods of relevant therapy, enabling students to see, hear, and apply learning objectives.

In addition to those mentioned above, new features include:

• Increased attention to children’s voice problems across several chapters on voice therapy services for patients of all ages.
• A new assessment chapter that introduces voice screening instruments, the medical voice evaluation, auditory-perceptual scaling instruments, and other tools of the profession.
• Revised and expanded sections on voice assessment, laryngopharyngeal reflux disease, and respiratory disorders and therapies that incorporate new literature on working with patients with asthma and paradoxical vocal fold disorders.