Journal Reviews

What is voice?

3 March 2021 | | Speech and Language Therapy | Voice, discourse analysis, gender, socio-cultural positioning, transdisciplinary research

Voice is an area of clinical practice in speech and language therapy where there remains much debate, not only around the aetiology and classifications of voice disorders, but around the treatment of them. In general, it is accepted that ‘voice...

Voice issues in transgender individuals

1 September 2015 | | female-to-male transgender, female-to-male transsexual, gender diversity, voice, voice problem, voice treatment

Recently, former decathlete and TV personality, Bruce Jenner, admitted that he is transgender, thereby becoming the most famous and vocal advocate for transgender issues. Transgender refers to female to male or male to female identification. In either case, voice modification...