Professional Development
- Voice Care Network: http://www.voicecarenetwork.org/
- Summer course on using your voice in an optimal way and on learning how to teach voice/choir/general music in a way that supports your students’ vocal health as well: http://www.voicecarenetwork.org/courses.cfm?ID=123&PID=127&siteID=1
- Contains info on personal vocal health, changing and aging voice, conducting and voice and more!
- National Center for Voice and Speech: http://www.ncvs.org/
- They offer the Summer Vocology Institute (SVI)that offers University of Iowa singing voice specialist training for graduate credit– for SLPs, singing teachers, and vocal coaches: http://www.ncvs.org/svi_infous.html
- Caring for the Teaching Voice – 12 years worth of data in a study funded by the National Institutes of Health: http://www.ncvs.org/research_occu.html
Professional Organizations/Internet Resources:
- American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA): www.asha.org
- Good article referencing common teacher complaints: http://www.asha.org/Publications/leader/2013/130301/All-Talked-Out/
- National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS): http://www.nats.org/
- Great programs for teachers and singers: http://www.nats.org/programs.html
- The Voice Foundation: http://voicefoundation.org/
- The voice reference guide is particularly good: http://voicefoundation.org/health-science/voice-disorders/
- JAmerican Choral Directors Association: http://acda.org/
- Column On the Voice in the Choral Journal
- Doherty, M.L. (2011). Making the connection between healthy voice and successful teaching and learning in the music classroom. Choral Journal 51.11: 41-49.
- Articles in ChorTeach – the ACDA online publication
- Morrissey-Doherty, M.L. (2009). You might not be the only one suffering from a voice problem: Music teachers and vocal health. ChorTeach1:3: 1-3.
- Column On the Voice in the Choral Journal
- Massachusetts General Hospital: http://www.massgeneral.org/voicecenter/
- They have treated many famous patients (Julie Andrews, Steven Tyler and so on)
- Lots of great videos and other information
- Voice Academy: http://www.uiowa.edu/~shcvoice/
- Some very good resources/information on a variety of topics
- Good images of both healthy and unhealthy vocal folds: http://www.uiowa.edu/~shcvoice/unwell.html
A Sampling of Good Images of Videostroboscopy/Other Video Footage
- Nickle and dime reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJedwz_r2Pc
- Description of stroboscopy, but no sound as the scope is occurring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2okeYVclQo
- Chicago Humanities Festival- Visualizing the Operatic Voice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvJ97gr-148
- Laryngeal Papilloma in an opera singer (before and after surgery): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgcAyeoUcC0
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