Seeing Voices: A Dynamic, Interprofessional Approach to Teaching Performing Arts and Speech-Language Pathology Students About Vocal Anatomy and Physiology
Objectives: Seeing Voices was an interprofessional, technology-enabled, large-scale, teaching and learning event developed to address the need to improve voice students’ knowledge of laryngeal anatomy and physiology toward understanding and maintaining vocal health. Seeing Voices trialed a novel in...
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Elsevier
2023
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| author | Hersh, Deborah Fereday, Luzita Palmer, Fiona Hall, David Andrade, Pedro Amarante Cornelius, Priscilla Nang, Charn White, Jane |
| author_facet | Hersh, Deborah Fereday, Luzita Palmer, Fiona Hall, David Andrade, Pedro Amarante Cornelius, Priscilla Nang, Charn White, Jane |
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Seeing Voices was an interprofessional, technology-enabled, large-scale, teaching and learning event developed to address the need to improve voice students’ knowledge of laryngeal anatomy and physiology toward understanding and maintaining vocal health. Seeing Voices trialed a novel interprofessional educational approach, collected both quantitative and qualitative data about student experiences of laryngostroboscopic examination, and built a databank of laryngeal recordings for future student learning.
Methods:
Seeing Voices involved two 3-hour seminars in a large, university lecture space, run by an interprofessional team (speech-language pathologists, vocal coach, Ear Nose and Throat consultant) with quality equipment projecting laryngeal images to large screens with expert commentary in real time. Participants were 18 students who volunteered for laryngeal examination (9 per seminar) and student attendees (n = 175) from performing arts courses (classical singing, contemporary, jazz, musical theater, acting) and a speech-language pathology course. A quantitative evaluation of knowledge gained was undertaken using a Qualtrics survey. Results from pre (n = 175; performing arts = 120; speech-language pathology (SLP) = 55) and postevent (n = 99; performing arts = 56; SLP = 43) questionnaires were received from the students who attended. Interviews were collected from 15 of the 18 student volunteers about their experiences of nasendoscopic evaluation and data were analyzed using qualitative description and qualitative content analysis.
Results:
Quantitative results demonstrated a strong trend toward increased knowledge following attendance at the event across year cohorts for both student groups. Qualitative interviews highlighted the value in seeing multiple examples of normal laryngeal functioning across different vocal techniques in real time. For those undertaking nasendoscopic examination, simultaneously seeing and feeling laryngeal maneuvers used in training appeared to promote understanding of their own vocal mechanism and the purpose of different vocal techniques.
Conclusions:
Seeing Voices offers a novel way to improve interprofessional collaboration, and engagement with, and understanding of, laryngeal anatomy and vocal health by students in performing arts and speech-language pathology courses. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-930632023-09-19T03:16:18Z Seeing Voices: A Dynamic, Interprofessional Approach to Teaching Performing Arts and Speech-Language Pathology Students About Vocal Anatomy and Physiology Hersh, Deborah Fereday, Luzita Palmer, Fiona Hall, David Andrade, Pedro Amarante Cornelius, Priscilla Nang, Charn White, Jane Objectives: Seeing Voices was an interprofessional, technology-enabled, large-scale, teaching and learning event developed to address the need to improve voice students’ knowledge of laryngeal anatomy and physiology toward understanding and maintaining vocal health. Seeing Voices trialed a novel interprofessional educational approach, collected both quantitative and qualitative data about student experiences of laryngostroboscopic examination, and built a databank of laryngeal recordings for future student learning. Methods: Seeing Voices involved two 3-hour seminars in a large, university lecture space, run by an interprofessional team (speech-language pathologists, vocal coach, Ear Nose and Throat consultant) with quality equipment projecting laryngeal images to large screens with expert commentary in real time. Participants were 18 students who volunteered for laryngeal examination (9 per seminar) and student attendees (n = 175) from performing arts courses (classical singing, contemporary, jazz, musical theater, acting) and a speech-language pathology course. A quantitative evaluation of knowledge gained was undertaken using a Qualtrics survey. Results from pre (n = 175; performing arts = 120; speech-language pathology (SLP) = 55) and postevent (n = 99; performing arts = 56; SLP = 43) questionnaires were received from the students who attended. Interviews were collected from 15 of the 18 student volunteers about their experiences of nasendoscopic evaluation and data were analyzed using qualitative description and qualitative content analysis. Results: Quantitative results demonstrated a strong trend toward increased knowledge following attendance at the event across year cohorts for both student groups. Qualitative interviews highlighted the value in seeing multiple examples of normal laryngeal functioning across different vocal techniques in real time. For those undertaking nasendoscopic examination, simultaneously seeing and feeling laryngeal maneuvers used in training appeared to promote understanding of their own vocal mechanism and the purpose of different vocal techniques. Conclusions: Seeing Voices offers a novel way to improve interprofessional collaboration, and engagement with, and understanding of, laryngeal anatomy and vocal health by students in performing arts and speech-language pathology courses. 2023 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/93063 10.1016/j.jvoice.2023.07.029 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Elsevier fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Hersh, Deborah Fereday, Luzita Palmer, Fiona Hall, David Andrade, Pedro Amarante Cornelius, Priscilla Nang, Charn White, Jane Seeing Voices: A Dynamic, Interprofessional Approach to Teaching Performing Arts and Speech-Language Pathology Students About Vocal Anatomy and Physiology |
| title | Seeing Voices: A Dynamic, Interprofessional Approach to Teaching Performing Arts and Speech-Language Pathology Students About Vocal Anatomy and Physiology |
| title_full | Seeing Voices: A Dynamic, Interprofessional Approach to Teaching Performing Arts and Speech-Language Pathology Students About Vocal Anatomy and Physiology |
| title_fullStr | Seeing Voices: A Dynamic, Interprofessional Approach to Teaching Performing Arts and Speech-Language Pathology Students About Vocal Anatomy and Physiology |
| title_full_unstemmed | Seeing Voices: A Dynamic, Interprofessional Approach to Teaching Performing Arts and Speech-Language Pathology Students About Vocal Anatomy and Physiology |
| title_short | Seeing Voices: A Dynamic, Interprofessional Approach to Teaching Performing Arts and Speech-Language Pathology Students About Vocal Anatomy and Physiology |
| title_sort | seeing voices: a dynamic, interprofessional approach to teaching performing arts and speech-language pathology students about vocal anatomy and physiology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/93063 |