Voice Disorders: Essentials for Patients and Professionals

Welcome to Voice Disorders: What Patients and Professionals Need to Know Knowledge regarding vocal production physiology and management options for voice disorders have experienced rapid growth over the past 40 years. This growth has resulted in a knowledge gap amongst patients and practitioners. Entirely new subspecialties of laryngology under otolaryngology and vocology under speech-language pathology have developed in response to this gap. This MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) is designed

• Understand voice anatomy and physiology for speech and singing
• Relate vocal effort and quality changes to physiology
• Determine need and timing for medical or surgical interventions