Voice Therapy 4-1-1: A practical how-to guide for the new and non-voice-specialist clinician

Unless you can get an internship or a clinical fellowship at a voice center and have direct mentorship, learning how to become a voice therapist is a challenge. This book is meant to be a clinical mentor in your pocket book that will show freshly graduated speech pathologists who want to do voice therapy how to be voice therapists. If you're a non-voice specialist clinician, this will give you options to what you may already know to add to your clinical arsenal-- you can offer more to the voice patients that you do see.Voice Therapy 4-1-1 is a practical, succinct guidebook that helps a speech pathologist learn how to become a voice therapist. The profession needs a book for the neophyte voice clinician that only explains voice therapy and that is written specifically for therapists. Voice Therapy 4-1-1 offers that. There needs to be an accessible, practical and affordable how-to, “for clinicians by clinicians,” intro-level voice therapy handbook for speech pathologists who are new to voice work and for clinicians who don’t work with voice patients on a regular basis, as well as for graduate students wanting to learn the basics of voice therapy. The main intention of Voice Therapy 4-1-1 is to help beginning clinicians learn how to do voice therapy. It’s neither an academic textbook nor a new therapy program. There are branded voice therapy programs that are efficacious and well researched, and the techniques of these programs are widely used. Clinicians need to know how to effectively deliver these programs when indicated, but they especially need to know how to apply the principles these programs are based on, so they can use these therapies effectively—to finesse them, nuance them, and use them in creative ways when patients don’t respond the way they should “on paper” to the standard delivery methods (humming and hooing, for example). We SLPs, especially new ones, need to be able to use the branded programs, and their principles, to meet patient bioindividuality so we’re not limited in our skill set. We need flexibility and the ability to adapt therapeutic techniques to patient responsiveness. Sometimes a straight “program” is not the way to go, but the principles behind the evidence-based programs should inform all therapeutic approaches. It’s not about the programs – it’s about the principles. Voice Therapy 4-1-1 offers new and non-voice specialist SLPs a simple guide that teaches the basic nuts and bolts of voice therapy in a step by step fashion—how to sit down with a patient and figure out where and how to begin, how to instruct and model things for patients, how to educate patients and facilitate their self-awareness, where to go and how to troubleshoot and problem solve in the voice therapy process.Voice Therapy 4-1-1 offers experienced-based, principle-driven therapy techniques that flow from and blend with the extant evidence-based voice therapy programs. If you don’t have direct mentorship for learning how to be a voice therapist, you can have this.