**Take this course along with "Stuttering vs Cluttering" for a discounted price (up to $55.00 discount per person)!
This unique workshop is for SLPs, voice coaches and vocal health providers. The hands-on workshops will allow participants to experience state of the art treatment techniques for both medical voice disorders and professional voice users. The instructor will bring together theory and practice through creative treatment and preservation techniques for the voice. The labs and tools provided will bring better results to your voice treatment sessions. This interactive course will enable you to distinguish between abdominal versus non-abdominal breath-support techniques and get up to date, state of the art treatment techniques for both schools of thought. You will be able to identify the features of disorders for professional voice users. You will also be amazed to find out common mistakes singers and actors do while performing with their voice. This course is a look into the new generation of professional voice therapy and vocal folds physiotherapy!
Instructor(s)
Gal Levy M.Sc. CCC-SLP
Gal Levy M.Sc. CCC-SLP, has more than 20 years of experience in clinical treatments of voice, fluency, articulation and tongue mobility. Gal is a founder of a Linkedin voice or voiceless online group as well as founder of an online stuttering group in Facebook. He is currently Director of Community Development - Voice Health & Science at the Modern Vocalist.com, the largest website for professional voice users on the internet. Gal also practices in numerous settings including his private practice, school models and home health. Gal’s monthly radio show in collaboration with KEOM 88.5FM advised local listeners about voice and fluency disorders and treatments. Gal is a member in good standing of ASHA (CCC-SLP), TSHA, ISHLA and The Voice Foundation of America, Inc. .
Course Objectives
At the completion of this course participants will be able to::
Identify the key features of abdominal versus non-abdominal breath-support techniques for treatment of the professional voice.
Identify the features of disorders for professional voice users.
Identify common mistakes singers do while performing with their voice.
Differentiate between voice treatment, voice preservation and vocal folds physiotherapy.
Agenda
DAY 1
07:30 - 08:00
Registration (Continental Breakfast)
08:00 - 08:30
Review of voice disorders for the professional voice
08:30 - 09:00
Review of mistakes singers make in their singing and what they cause
09:00 - 10:00
Lab - Treatments for the professional voice- Abdominal breath support
10:00 - 10:15
Break
10:15 - 10:45
Lab - What should be coming first? Tone control or breath-support
10:45 - 12:00
Lab - Full scale MBS technique
12:00 - 01:00
Lunch
01:00 - 01:30
Treatments for the professional voice - combination - Review
01:30 - 02:00
Lab - Abdominal versus non-abdominal breath support technique: Which one is better?
02:00 - 02:30
Treatments for the professional voice, Non-abdominal breath support - Review
02:30 - 03:00
Lab - Non-abdominal breath support
03:00 - 03:30
Lab - Open versus closed vocal cord treatment approaches
03:00 - 03:30
Lab - Vocal-folds physiotherapy
03:30 - 03:45
Vocal Preservation
03:45 - 04:15
Q & A
CEU's
Contact hours pre-approved for:
CIAO is an ASHA Approved Provider #AAWA(SLP/SLPAs)
7.0 Hours (0.7 CEUs)
This course is offered for 0.7 ASHA CEUs (Introductory level, Professional area).
CIAO has been approved as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), 1760 Old Meadow Road, Suite 500, McLean, VA 22102
