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Pasquale Bottalico; Silvia Murgia; Taylor Mekus; Mary Flaherty – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this project is to assess the acoustical conditions in which optimal intelligibility and low listening difficulty can be achieved in real classrooms for elementary students, taking into consideration the effects of dysphonic voice and typical classroom noise. Method: Speech intelligibility tests were performed in six…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Classroom Environment, Voice Disorders, Intelligibility
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Zacharias, Stephanie R. C.; Kelchner, Lisa N.; Creaghead, Nancy – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore teachers' attitudes toward, and perceptions of personality traits of, female adolescents who presented with voice disorders. Method: For this comparative study consisting of a 25-item web-based semantic differential survey, teachers rated voice recordings of 4 female adolescents (considered…
Descriptors: Females, Adolescents, Voice Disorders, Teacher Attitudes
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Schwartz, Sandra – Contributions to Music Education, 2013
Vocal demands of teaching are considerable and these challenges are greater for choral directors who depend on the voice as a musical and instructive instrument. The purpose of this study was to (1) examine choral directors' vocal condition using a modified Voice Handicap Index (VHI), and (2) determine the extent to which the major variables…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Music Activities, Music Education, Music Teachers