Handbook of Voice Assessments

Estella P.M. Ma, Edwin M.L. Yiu

ISBN 10: 1597563641 / ISBN 13: 9781597563642

Published by Plural Publishing, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Handbook of Voice Assessments
• Publisher: Plural Publishing
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1597563641
• ISBN 13: 9781597563642
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

This book covers a comprehensive description of voice assessment. It embraces current best practice and the latest research reports on the assessment of voice by leading international clinicians and scholars in the professions. It intends to be a collective experience of the voice clinicians and researchers. This book maximizes students' and clinicians' competence, knowledge and effectiveness and will become a necessary and invaluable sourcebook for every undergraduate, graduate and every clinician in his/her early career. The book is the first of its kind in voice assessment to have a dual feature of being a textbook and sourcebook. Each chapter focuses on one area of voice assessment. At the beginning of each chapter, a succinct list of purposes of the assessment is listed, followed by the description of procedure in an easy-to-understand and systematic format. Finally, guidelines on how to analyze the voice samples and interpretation of results are included. Special features of the book include: Theoretical background restricted to a simple paragraph; detailed instructions for each voice assessments; readers can follow directly the detailed instructions and can immediately implement the assessment with patients; all chapters are consistent in format and terminology & each chapter begins with the purpose of the assessment, followed by the description of procedures.

About the Author

Estella P.-M. Ma, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences and the Co-Director of Voice Research Laboratory at the University of Hong Kong. Upon completion of her doctoral study at the University of Hong Kong in 2003, she worked at the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, the University of Queensland as a lecturer before she rejoined HKU in 2006. Her research interests include instrumental voice assessments, pediatric voice disorders and voice motor learning. She publishes quality scientific articles in high-ranking journals in the field and her work is regularly presented at international conferences. She is a steering committee member of the Asia-Pacific Society for the Study of Speech, Language and Hearing and also Voice Committee member of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics.