04983 - Phoniatry

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • 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. 9080)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the module the student will be able to recognize characteristics and parameters of the voice and the characteristics of the vocal tract, both from an anatomical and functional point of view.

Course contents

Concept of euphony and dysphonia 

Physiology of vocal registers: mechanism 0, 1, 2,3

The physiology of the vocal tract

Lift and penetrance

Posture and voice

The management of cost-diaphragmatic breathing

The vowel formants and the song formant

The classification of dysphonias

Congenital dysphonias: cri du chat, laryngomalacia, congenital glottic diaphragm, laryngeal papillomatosis of childhood, sulcus and vergeture, epidermoid cysts

Acquired dysphonia. Organic: edema, laryngeal inflammation, nodules, polyps, retention cysts, laryngocele, submucosal hemorrhages, laryngeal paralysis, oncological pathology

Acquired dysphonia. Functional: Vocal change disorders, psychogenic dysphonias, dysodynias, chronic infantile dysphonias, hyperkinetic and hypokinetic dysphonias

Instrumental semiotics for the evaluation of voice disorders: fiberoptic laryngoscopy, laryngeal stroboscopy, spectrography and sonography, electroacoustic voice analyzers: vocalography, 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 in instrumental semiotics

Assessment methods

Oral Exam

Teaching tools

Power Point

laryngeal stroboscopy

(CSL Kay): Fonoacustic Analysis

Office hours

See the website of Franco Fussi