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The inability to produce soft voice (IPSV): a tool to detect vocal change in school-teachers
Angela E Halpern1, Jennifer L Spielman, Eric J Hunter
1National Center for Voice and Speech, Denver, CO 80204, USA. ahalpern@dcpa.org
Purpose:
This study investigated whether clinicians could detect voice changes reported by teachers, from self-ratings teachers conducted of their inability to produce soft voice (IPSV).
Methods:
Ten teachers wore a vocal dosimeter and completed daily IPSV ratings approximately every 2 hours for 14 days. Following the 2 weeks of dosimetry, two speech clinicians specialized in voice rated the teachers' IPSV from dosimeter recordings. Teacher and clinician ratings were compared for each participant.
Results:
Although agreement between teacher and clinician ratings was not significant, descriptive analyses demonstrated an average difference score of 1.7 (SD 1.4) between teacher and clinician ratings.
Conclusions:
This study supports the potential usefulness of the IPSV as a simple tool to detect voice changes in oneself or others.
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