- Docente: Franco Fussi
- Credits: 2
- SSD: MED/31
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Speech and Language Therapy (cod. 8478)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the module the student knows the main vocabulary of speech, their vocal alteration characteristics, and plans a specific rehabilitative therapeutic plan.
Course contents
Physiology of voice registers: mechanism 0, 1, 2 -
vocal tract physiology
Posture and voice
Cost-diaphramatic breathing management: support
Vocal formants and singing formant
disphonias Classification
Congenital disfunctions: cri du chat, laryngomacia, congenital glottic diaphragm, papillomatosis of childhood, sulcus and vergeture, epidermoid cysts
Acquired disconnections. Organic: edema, laryngeal flogosy, nodules, polyps, retention cysts, laryngocele, submucose hemorrhages, laryngeal paralysis, oncological pathology
Acquired disconnections. Functional: Vibrating mood swings, psychophysical dysphoniae, disodies, chronic childhood dysphoniae, hypercinetic and hypocinetic dysphoniae
Instrumental semeiotics for the assessment of voice disorders: Fiber optic laryngoscopy, laryngeal stroboscopy, spectrography and sonography, voice electroacoustic analyzers: MDVP, Lingwaves, manual and automatic phonetography
Readings/Bibliography
Oskar Schindler, a cura di : "La voce" , Edizioni Piccin Padova 2009
Franco Fussi ,Silvia Magnani: "Lo spartito logopedico" Edizioni Omega Torino 2004
Franco Fussi, Marco Gilardone: "Clinica della voce", Libreria Cortina Torino, 2002
Franco Fussi: "Il trattamento logopedico delle disfonie ipercinetiche" , Edizioni Omega Torino 1999
Wladimiro De Colle. "Voce e Computer" Edizioni Omega Torino 2005
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons
Practical exercises of instrumental semeiotics
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Office hours
See the website of Franco Fussi