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The voice of the deaf

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Voice Disorders and their Management

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The speaker characteristics of hearing-impaired people are different from those of speakers who are able to use their auditory sense to monitor their production of speech. This book is concerned with voice and it is the vocal characteristics of hearing-impaired people that are discussed here. Vocal characteristics are discussed in two ways, first by a review of the literature about ‘deaf voice’ and secondly with illustration from a study applying the Vocal Profile Analysis (VPA) scheme to the description of ‘deaf voice’.

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  1. Department of Clinical Communication Studies, City University, London, UK

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Wirz, S. (1991). The voice of the deaf. In: Fawcus, M. (eds) Voice Disorders and their Management. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2861-0_14

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