| The Development of Conversation Training Therapy: A Concept Paper Aug 9th 2015, 01:57, by Jackie Gartner-Schmidt, Shirley Gherson, Edie R. Hapner, Jennifer Muckala, Douglas Roth, Sarah Schneider, Amanda I. Gillespie To introduce the conceptual, theoretical, and practical foundations of a novel approach to voice therapy, called conversation training therapy (CTT), which focuses exclusively on voice awareness and efficient voice production in patient-driven conversational narrative, without the use of a traditional therapeutic hierarchy. CTT is grounded in motor learning theory, focused on training target voice goals in spontaneous, conversational speech in the first session and throughout. CTT was developed by a consensus panel of expert clinical voice-specialized speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and patients with voice problems. |
