Diagnosing and Correcting Vocal Faults in Young Singers

TMEA 2005

Dr. Valerie L. Trollinger, Music Research Institute, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Dr. John W. Flohr, Texas Woman’s University, Denton

CAVEAT: This is not an exhaustive presentation. Attendees are urged to access the professional sites below for more information, and to purchase the book listed.

Whenever in doubt, contact a physician.

PRESENTATION LINK: Go to http://www.uncg.edu/~vltrolli – the webpage for this presentation. From there you can download the entire presentation as a PDF file. Just click on the link for the “TMEA Voice Participants.”

USEFUL LINKS:

Texas Voice Center: http://www.texasvoicecenter.com

Voice Care Network: http://www.csbsju.edu/VoiceCare/default.htm

Voice Academy (part of the University of Iowa): http://www.voiceacademy.org

Voice Foundation: http://www.voicefoundation.org

BOOKS:

The diagnosis and correction of vocal faults. (1994), by James McKinney. Published by Genevox (Nashville, TN).

Also see, Trollinger, V.T. (2004). Singing Chapter in Musical Lives of Young Children (Flohr). Prentice-Hall. Both available on Amazon–go to www.marvinmusic.org and click on Musical Lives.