Voice Therapy

Chronic hoarseness and vocal strain are not normal, no matter how old you are or what you do for a living. These, and other symptoms, may be a sign of a voice disorder or a medical condition affecting your larynx (voice box). Often, voice problems can be treated through medical interventions including voice therapy.

What is Voice Therapy?

Voice therapy is like physical therapy for the muscles in your larynx. In therapy your speech language pathologist will show you exercises designed to change the muscular patterns you use for voicing in order to help make your voice function more efficiently. Regular practice of these exercises at home helps establish motor learning or "muscle memory" for these new patterns making them habit.

Therapy begins with simple sound level exercises and advances through a hierarchy of more complex tasks until you are able to speak clearly and comfortably in conversation using the strategies you've learned. A typical course of voice therapy is about 8 sessions, though some people will need fewer or more sessions depending on the extent of their voice problem.

Professional Voice Users

Singers, actors, broadcasters, teachers, lawyers and other voice professionals have special needs with regard to the care and management of their voice problem. At Voicewize, our medically trained Speech Language Pathologists are also professional singing and acting teachers who will not only help you rehabilitate your voice but also provide you with specialized training for all of the environments in which you have to use it.

Medical Evaluation

A medical evaluation of your voice by an Ear, Nose and Throat doctor (ENT) is necessary before initiating voice therapy. We will be happy to help you find a local ENT with voice evaluation experience.

Voicewize is a provider with Blue Cross Blue Shield, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Tufts Health Plan and Medicare.