What is voice therapy?

• Strokes and brain injury can change the way your voice sounds by weakening the muscles needed to produce speech.

• Signs of voice disorder include the following changes:

  • Volume: quiet, loud, or too much variation

  • Pitch: monotone or too much variation

  • Rate of speech: slow, fast, or variable

  • Breath support: running out of breath frequently, heavy breathing, more frequent breathing

  • Vocal quality: hoarse, breathy, strained, rough

  • Resonance: sounding like your voice is “coming out of your nose,” or your voice sounding as if your nose was congested

  • Articulation: speech sounding imprecise or slurred

• Our therapy can help strengthen the weakened muscles that cause these changes and teach you strategies to improve the affected subsystems.