Professional voice users are people whose voice is essential for their jobs. Professional voice users include singers, teachers, speech language pathologists, actors, broadcast personalities, clergy and salespeople. Unlike other professionals who can do certain modifications to not use their voice and function adequately, professional voice users need to use their voice to perform their job requirements
A voice disorder is a condition where a person’s voice sounds different than what is expected. A voice disorder might cause difficulties in being understood and can also make it difficult for a person to speak comfortably. We will look into certain issues that could lead to a voice disorder and some ways to prevent them.
Misarticulation is the inability to produce speech sounds in the right manner. Generally, the misarticulation errors are substitution by a different sound, deleting the sound, adding an extra sound or having a sound distortion. Generally, the person who has misarticulation is aware about the issue and might also try to correct the sound errors.
Read MoreIt is often seen that cluttering is often confused with a fast rate of speech and vice versa. Although the primary symptom of cluttering is fast rate of speech, both of these are different conditions and the underlying causes of these are different.
Read MoreCOVID-19 affects speech, language and communication skills. Illness, isolation, changes in lifestyle, like lockdowns, working remotely, not interacting with people (due to fear of contracting the disease) and not attending social gatherings have led to difficulties in social communication. Attending speech and language therapy would result in improved speech, language and communication skills and a better lifestyle.
Read MoreDyslexia is described as a difficulty to read words and numbers and associate them with the speech sounds. The ability to read alphabet sequences to read a word is called phoneme grapheme correspondence. For a person with dyslexia, the phoneme-grapheme correspondence is usually affected. This is one of the reasons that results in difficulties in reading and writing.
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