We are very excited to receive a P50 grant from the NIH National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to create a Clinical Research Center for the Improved Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Vocal Hyperfunction (PD/PI: Hillman, PIs: Mehta, Stepp, Zanartu).

Abstract

Vocal hyperfunction (VH) is associated with the most frequently occurring types of voice disorders. These include benign vocal folds lesions (e.g., nodules and polyps

Everyone is invited to attend an open house at the Voice Center! Details below and under Technical Tours menu at acousticalsociety.org/content/acoustics-17-boston.

Open House at the Mass. General Hospital Voice Center
Tuesday, June 27, 6:30 p.m.–8:00 p.m.

The Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH Voice Center) brings together an interdisciplinary group of clinicians and scientists to integrate state-of-the-art

Read about our newly published work using ambulatory voice monitoring that takes advantage of real-time signal processing on a smartphone to provide vibrotactile and visual feedback through a connected smartwatch.

http://ajslp.pubs.asha.org/article.aspx?articleid=2599984

Integration of motor learning principles Into real-time ambulatory voice biofeedback and example implementation via a clinical case study with vocal fold nodules

Purpose Ambulatory voice biofeedback (AVB) has the potential to significantly improve voice