Speech therapy
The Speech Therapy Voice Clinic helps patients improve and regain their ability to talk, sing and communicate with their voices. We use state-of-the-art technology and employ highly trained teams of Otolaryngologists and Speech Pathologists to help patients on their journey to recovery.
The Speech Therapy Voice Clinic is one of the many rehabilitation services offered at Emanate Health Queen of the Valley Hospital.
For more information and to make an appointment call 626.813.2833.
The Voice Clinic team provides a comprehensive range of diagnostic services to help manage the condition.
Diagnostic services include:
- Acoustic analysis
- Voice handicap inventory
- Vocal range analysis
- Reflux evaluation
- Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES)
- Videostroboscoby
Once the cause of the condition is identified, the Voice Clinic provides a full complement of treatment and therapy services including:
- Vocal hygiene program
- Voice therapy with biofeedback
- Lee Silverman voice treatment
- Laryngeal manipulation
- Breath support exercises
- Medication management
- Botox injections
- Vocal fold injections
- Laser surgery
- Vocal fold medialization
The Voice Clinic team treats a wide range of voice disorders, including:
- Structural
- Cancer (head & neck)
- Laryngitis
- Post trauma
- Vocal fold lesions (cysts, nodules, papilloma)
- Neurogenic/Neurologic
- Vocal fold paralysis/paresis
- Movement disorders (spasmodic, dysphonia, parkinson's disease)
- Functional
- Pain in the throat or neck
- Hoarseness
- Muscle tension dysphonia
- Vocal fold bowing
Typical complaints and symptoms that we treat include:
- Pain in the throat or neck
- Hoarseness
- Breathiness
- Decreased Loudness/intensity
- Loss of vocal range
- Pitch changes
- Voice tremor
- Voice breaks