TEACHERS & VOICE PROBLEMS

Teachers & Voice Problems



Teachers & Voice Problems

Introduction

The voice, for most people, is not simply the means by which we communicate with others, the means by which we speak, that is, instrument of expression and communication. Now, for a large group of people, among which is the educational group, is also the main instrument work. When speaking voice is clear that we are referring to more than the sole and exclusive laryngeal production, i.e. more than the pure materiality vocal it not only serves as a support to language, but, as pointed out by Simberg (2001), is card presentation of the person and reflects the inner self, individual and unique, when influenced by physical or psychological situations, sometimes so unaware that they are that provide deeper levels of communication (p. 12).

To understand clearly the extent of this disorder in teachers, Rantala Vilkman & Bloigu (2002) noted that this and vocal pathology associated with practice of teaching association in the last Aryans, and later we shall see, has experienced a considerable increase in our country (p. 346).

Dysphonia in teachers is a real serious problem, that is not aware clear his magnitude, indeed even by the same hit (one of the easily verifiable aspects lies in the fact that no one asks for prevention attend retraining only when the disorder, installed and clearly affects subject). And understandably, the Administration and Academic Institutions this country still have less awareness, which eventually leads us to only Deal with your problem is, unfortunately, very defined, making treatment individualized treatments, private and very expensive.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) considers the teacher as first professional at risk of contracting occupational diseases voice, because the voice most likely to damage the vocal organs is the "voice projected “ i.e. that used to exert influence on others calling them, trying to persuade, trying to attract viewers. In fact, in our country, "Nodules of vocal cords due the sustained efforts of the voice for professional reasons "are the only pathology now recognized as an occupational disease for the collective teacher.

Method

For this study, the literature was identified by using the search terms “teachers and voice problems” and databases that used for the study were J Voice, Folia Phoniatr Logop, Logoped Phoniatr Vocol, Lange Medical Books, and J Speech Lang Hear Res. All of the mentioned the databases selected by bearing in mind the relevancy of these databases with the concerned topic and the quality of the data available in these databases. There is a wide range of research work on the voice problems of teachers and all the accessible and available journals were accessed and included in the study.

The following inclusion criteria were used:

Articles completely published between 1993 and 2006 with quantitative or qualitative methodologies, those that had at least two of the selected descriptors, and those whose abstracts presented the teacher as subject and described this professional's voice disorders.

The following exclusion criteria were also used:

Articles written in a language other than English, those whose abstracts did ...