Reimagining Common Voice Qualities and Voice Therapy Prompts using the Estill Voice Model
This workshop will explore how implicit auditory-perceptual voice qualities and prompts typically used in vocal pedagogy and therapy can be connected to explicit vocal anatomy and physiology via the Estill Voice Model (EVM). EVM offers an integrated implicit-explicit instructional approach to voice training via isolated adjustments of vocal structures (explicit) that interact to produce functional voice qualities (implicit) such as resonant voice and oral twang. Participants will explore common implicit, explicit, and integrated instructional approaches within the framework of the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System. In addition, participants will produce relevant EVM Figure Options and Exercises and explore functional voice qualities (e.g., resonant voice, twang, belt, loud voice) and prompts (i.e., humming, beep-beep, sustaining voiced fricatives, phonating through a straw) through hands-on integrated implicit-explicit activities. Finally, these useful qualities and prompts will be applied in two live-audience case studies highlighting voice training and therapy. A handout and Q & A session will provide a summary and opportunity for discussion of strategies used in the case studies integrating EVM into the RTSS framework.