Terapia del Tracto Vocal Semi - Ocluido en docentes con alteraciones vocales.

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: This research has as objective to evaluate the effects of the Semi-Occluded Vocal Tract intervention (TVSO) in teachers of two educational institutions that presented vocal alterations. METHODS: Study guided by a quantitative paradigm, quasi-experimental with comparative scope, the sample is composed of 28 teachers, divided into two groups, the group 1 group that was characterized by vocal alterations, to whom the therapy was applied. TVSO. The group 2 group of healthy teachers, they underwent a group education in Health, by Phoniatrics and Phonoaudiology. RESULTS: The initial premise is rejected because if there was a significant variation in the experimental group after the ten sessions compared to the control group, only one patient education was carried out. ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION: The results obtained in this research were positive, ratifying the effects of the TVSO therapy, due to the existence of changes in vocal production during the spoken emission of each one of the teachers. CONCLUSIONS: The techniques of the TVSO are an effective therapeutic tool in vocal rehabilitation in a population with vocal alteration, evidencing an immediate positive effect on the acoustic patterns of the voice and the vibration of the vocal folds.