VOICE ERGONOMICS - AN OVERVIEW OF RECENT RESEARCH

The area of voice disorders includes voice ergonomics, i.e., awareness of work-related risk factors for voice disorders, knowledge about how to improve voice production and speech intelligibility in different work environments to prevent occupational voice disorders. The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of research within the area in which several research groups in the Nordic countries are active. Results are presented from different perspectives such as prevalence, clinical, field, experimental and intervention studies. Increased knowledge about voice ergonomics will make demands on diagnostics and intervention for patients with occupational voice disorders in the future.

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