Conventional Speech Therapy Versus Vocal Science™ Method. What Works and What Is Greater?

Lately, I’m dealing with a lot of clients (young and old) with the voice/speech problems. Most of them spent months or even years with speech therapists and speech pathologists. Some of them have gone to the regular check-ups with their ENT specialists and (in the final analysis) had not accomplished anything with respect to a resolution to their voice problem(s).

How frustrating could that be? 

It is extremely sad for them and their relatives, not to mention that the majority of those poor people, understandably, keep coming in and out of depression. Some of them lost their professions and their hobbies for that matter, like singing, for example, or playing some sports. Sometimes even watching some sport or concert events (in their case) could become a big challenge. It is usually quite noisy in those venues, and those with voice problems feel even more silenced as they cannot compete with the screaming crowd. Some of them have lost hope, some of them are still researching and looking for the cure or at least for some improvement to their voice/vocal condition. 

In some cases partial or even full recovery is possible, in others the improvement is definitely possible, but the full recovery is only desirable. 

The Vocal Science™ technique advocates the maximum improvement of one’s voice condition – speaking or singing. 

By the virtual fact that the voice ( via employed specially-designed speech/singing exercises) will be lifted off of the vocal box/off of the vocal cords and restructured to a set of one's facial muscles, the release of pressure from other 'related-to-voice-performance' anatomy (like neck and chest muscles), will also be successfully achieved.

Now the sufferer will get a (so to speak) "vocal rest", by removing the “intruder” [their own voice] from the dangerous places such as vocal box (in general), the neck, chest, shoulders, etc...

Once the voice has been drown so low in its position, the lower anatomy, such as described above, is heavily encaged, and thus (no doubt) all of it could cause such diseases and disorders like acid reflux,  muscle tension dysphonia, or even spasmodic dysphonia...and even fibromyalgia. Speaking of acid reflux: due to the low anatomical position, the voice could easily meet the gastric acid and the vocal cords could be burned in no time, thus severe damage to the vocal cords could occur.

The moral of it is: by restructuring your voice via the lift from the vocal anatomy to the different set of muscles, your voice will be saved and preserved for a lifetime! 

The conventional speech therapy promotes exactly the opposite of the above. They are working very heavily on already damaged vocal anatomy and  (in the majority of cases) do more harm than good, or more damage than there was originally...

How sad is that? 

The sufferer feels now more pain and strain than before and in a lot of times the voice sounds more hoarse than it originally did! A lot of time, energy and money spent, but the mission had never been accomplished, not even remotely!

There is still a voice disorder and very little hope left …. 

The Vocal Science™ Method is designed to work not only on the human voice, but on a person as a whole. The approach is completely natural and completely holistic. 

The main philosophy of that is to release the vocal box from the pressure of the sound and then heal the vocal anatomy with natural herbs and remedies, while concurrently heal the troubled person hugely affected by the nasty voice disorder, and not only vocally but in any conceivable way. 

The Vocal Science™ Method also recognizes psychological trauma as well as vocal trauma, and due to that, needless to say, the holistic/alternative method works with flying colours and evidently produces unprecedented results.