This innovative course delivered by Christina Shewell MA, FRCSLT, ADVS offers an overview and practical workshops in a range of voice therapy ideas and approaches.
The course is primarily designed for speech and language therapists interested in beginning to work with voice, or in extending their repertoire of techniques.
Specific course content includes:
- Overview of common voice disorders
- Introduction to 7 areas of management and therapy tools
- Evaluation techniques
- Techniques for care of the client’s emotions
- Practical voice care techniques
- Techniques for release of excess muscle tension
- Breath techniques
- Voicing techniques
- Mindfulness and Imagery techniques
- Experiential voice and pair-based practical work
- Comprehensive support material
Learning outcomes
Following the course, participants will be able to:
- Explore a range of approaches to optimise voice evaluation
- Design and choose appropriate voice therapy ideas and techniques, to provide individualised management plans for voice disordered clients
- Integrate principles of voice therapy (grouped under with knowledge gained from practical experiential voice work to enhance the ‘therapy technique toolbox’
Duration: 2 days
Fees: £400 before 23 June 2025 / £450 after 23 June 2025