A Voice Apart

The Royans Institute for Non-Surgical Voice Repair, a division of TRS School for the Total Voice Performance and The Royans Professional Vocal School - for nearly 4 decades - has been receiving numerous clients with various voice disorders. Let us name the most common disorders that people have been suffering from and thus approaching our establishment: Polyps on the vocal cord(s) Nodules on the vocal cord(s)  Cysts on the vocal cord(s)  Lesions on the vocal cord(s) and throat area.  Muscle Tension Dysphonia (MTD) Spasmodic Dysphonia (SD) Sulcus Vocalis  VCD (Vocal Cord Dysfunction) However, the above voice/vocal disorders are just to name a few… In our experience, practically all of the patients who have been suffering from the above-mentioned disorders have been prior going anywhere and everywhere to get help, even much before reaching our enterprise. Some of them had undergone conventional treatments like Botox; others took numerous speech ther...

For the last 2 and a half decades, we are more and more treating voice problems and also, sometimes, quite serious speech problems – the identification of which is  speech impediment. What is the difference between the two described above, you, my reader, may ask? There is definitely a difference between speaking voice problems (which are usually much easier to correct, as they are caused by a wrong application of one’s voice), and a speech impediment.  The former may cause voice disorders like: • Muscle Tension Dysphonia • Spasmodic Dysphonia • Vocal Cord Nodules, Polyps, Lesions, etc. As for a speech impediment, it is usually either some kind of a birth defect, (which directly effects the manner of the person’s speaking) or it is a consequence of some other diseases; like for example, stroke (pre or post condition) ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) or the aftermath of any kind of accident occurrence. In the latter, the speech center of one’s brain ma...