About Us
Barbara M Wilson Arboleda, MS CCC-SLP
Jordan Piel, MS CCC-SLP
Jen Jackson, MA CCC-SLP
Beth Canterbury, MM
Barbara M Wilson Arboleda, MS CCC-SLP
Barbara is a licensed speech-language pathologist (Mass.) and singing voice teacher (member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing).
Barbara graduated from the MGH Institute of Health Professions at Massachusetts General Hospital and completed a specialty rotation in voice disorders at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Currently, she provides voice therapy at Voicewize and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Previously, she was employed at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Voice Lab.
In addition to her clinical work, Barbara has been a singer and actor for over 15 years. She studied voice at the New England Conservatory, through consortium with Simmons College and completed an acting program with Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, Massachusetts. She is a certified master teacher of the Estill Voice Training System. Until recently, she sang with the blues/rock band King Street Band.
Barbara has been quoted in Yoga Journal and spoken on the topic of voice rehabilitation at Boston University, Harvard Vanguard and the New England Institute of Art. Her paper entitled "Maintenance of Postural Alignment for Voice Production", written with physical therapist Artlette Frederick was accepted for publication in the Journal of Voice. Her textbook chapter "The Speech-Language Pathologist's Evaluation of the Hoarse Child", written with Shirley Gherson, was submitted in June of this year. Barbara is also involved in the development of multimedia projects regarding voice training and voice disorders management.
Prior to entering the field of speech-language pathology, Barbara studied management at Simmons College and worked in various management positions, including as a project manager in a corporate reengineering team and as the co-founder and treasurer of Entertaining Diversity, Inc., a position she continues to hold. In 1999, she coordinated the appearance of an Inc. 500 at the International MUSE convention in Vancouver, Canada.
In the area of diversity awareness training, Barbara was instrumental in the development of the nationally acclaimed one-man show, Ethnic Man!, and its subsequent production as an educational video package. She wrote the facilitator’s manual for this program. In addition, she provided program development support for corporate diversity awareness training programs.
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Jordan Piel, MS CCC-SLP
Jordan is a licensed speech-language pathologist in Massachusetts, and holds the Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) from the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA). He received his master's degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Northeastern University, and also holds a bachelor's degree in Linguistics.
He began his specialized voice pathology training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he remains on staff part-time, collaborating with Harvard Medical School-affiliated physicians. His continuing education in voice therapy and training has included Lessac-Madsen Resonant Voice Therapy, Estill Voice Training, and Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT). He attended the National Parkinson Foundation's Allied Team Training in 2008, and has presented on voice and speech changes associated with Parkinson's disease.
In addition to voice, his clinical interests include evaluation and treatment of fluency disorders (stuttering) and motor speech disorders (dysarthria). He enjoys singing rock, jazz, and other contemporary music, as well as playing guitar.
Jen Jackson, MA CCC-SLP
Jen is a licensed speech-language pathologist in Massachusetts and Oregon. She received her master's degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Maine. Jen also holds bachelor's and associate's degrees in communication arts and sciences from Lyndon State College in Vermont where she studied broadcast journalism.
Jen’s training for her specialty in voice disorders began with internships at the Voice and Swallowing Center of Maine and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Voice Lab. This was followed by a fellowship at the Vanderbilt Voice Center in Nashville, Tennessee. She holds certification in Lee Silverman Voice Treatment and has training in the Estill Voice Training System and the Lessac-Madsen Resonant Voice Therapy treatment protocol. Special interests include professional speaking voice, chronic cough and Paradoxical Vocal Fold Motion (PVFM), and the management of tracheal-esophageal prostheses for total laryngectomees.
Jen recently returned to New England from Oregon where she practiced swallowing, speech and voice rehabilitation in the geriatric population.
Prior to her career as a speech pathologist, Jen worked in her home state of Maine as a television news reporter and radio news anchor. She credits her work as a professional voice user and the years of formal training with establishing her love and respect for the human voice.
Beth Canterbury, MM
Beth graduated from Kenyon College, where she designed an interdisciplinary major studying Education Policy, Reform, and the Role of the Arts in Education. She then enrolled at the Longy School of Music where she earned her Master of Music degree in Opera Performance. Her operatic roles have included Gretal (Hansel and Gretel), Adele (Die Fledermaus), Despine (Cosi fan tutte), and Josephine (HMS Pinafore) and recent oratoria engagements include Handel's Messiah, Haydn's Nelsonmesse, and Faure's Requiem. Recently, she concluded a regional tour of the dynamic children's opera, The Bug Opera.
Most recently, Beth was both Chair of the Voice Department and Director of Education at South Shore Conservatory where she taught voice students aged 7 - 70. A longtime advocate for accessible opera performance, she has directed and associate directed for SSC's community opera company, Opera by the Bay. Her production credits include Amahl and the Night Visitors, The Marriage of Figaro, and Die Fledermaus and two operas for children, Davies' The Three Little Pigs and Barab's Little Red Riding Hood.
She is currently the instructor for Harvard University's Choir in Progress voice class and the Soprano Soloist at First Congregational Church in Milton. Beth lives in Stoughton with her husband Tap, a high school chemistry teacher, and their baby Sam.
Affiliations
Voicewize is affiliated with ENT Specialists (offices in Brockton, Norwood, Taunton and Attleboro) and Massachusetts ENT Associates (offices in Chelmsford). We provide both laryngeal videostroboscopy and voice/speech therapy at these offices.