Intensive training created to efficiently provide the knowledge teachers need in order to acquire the ability to care for and rehabilitate the voice in its professional use"

Teaching professionals subject their voice to intensive use, which can cause numerous problems. In order to maintain it in optimal functional conditions, it is essential to acquire knowledge and management of the phonatory apparatus and the multifactorial nature of the voice and its alterations. The changes that occur in the human voice over time are related, among other factors, to the maturation and development of the phonorespiratory system, as well as to its deterioration. 

Another type of change is due to sex-related differences. There are also changes in the voice that are due to professional use and to structural and functional alterations associated or not with other pathologies. And all of this is evident in both the normal voice and the pathological voice. 

For all these reasons, knowledge about the use of one's own voice, programs for the prevention of disorders and Voice Therapy applied to the use in different contexts, are crucial elements for the health, well-being and development of any speaker. 

This type of training makes professionals in this field increase their ability to succeed, which results in better practice and performance that will have a direct impact on their professional work, both in the teaching field and in the field of professional communication.

This program offers a very broad view of vocal pathology and physiology, with examples of successful cases. It includes all the necessary and basic techniques for the preparation and re-education of the voice, taking into account the professions that use it as their main working tool, providing tools, experiences and advances in this field, which have also been guaranteed by the teaching staff of the professional master’s degree, since all of them work in this field. The professional will learn based on professional experience as well as evidence-based pedagogy, which makes the student's preparation more effective and accurate.

With this professional master’s degree, you will be able to balance high intensity training with your personal and professional life, achieving your goals in a simple and real way”

This professional master’s degree in Voice Therapy offers you the advantages of a high-level education, teaching, and technological program. These are some of its most notable features:

• The latest technology in online teaching software
• A highly visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents that are easy to assimilate and understand
• Practical cases presented by practising experts
• State-of-the-art interactive video systems.
• Teaching supported by telepractice
• Continuous updating and recycling systems
• Autonomous learning: full compatibility with other occupations
• Practical exercises for self-evaluation and learning verification
• Support groups and educational synergies: questions to the expert, debate and knowledge forums
• Communication with the teacher and individual reflection work 
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection
• Supplementary documentation databases that are permanently available, even after the program

A professional master’s degree created to enable teachers to take care of the voice from the knowledge of how it works and the necessary prevention and recovery techniques"

The collaborators of this professional master’s degreeare professionals in the sector who will provide with the greatest compendium of knowledge in both scientific and purely technical disciplines. 

In this way, TECH ensures to offer you the updating objective it intends. A multidisciplinary team of professionals who are trained and experienced in different environments, who will develop the theoretical knowledge in an efficient way, but above all, they will bring their practical knowledge from their own experience to the program: one of the differential qualities of this training. 

The efficiency of the methodological design of this professional master’s degree, enhances the student's understanding of Voice Therapy. Developed by a multidisciplinary team of experts, it integrates the latest advances in educational technology. In this way, the students will be able to study with a range of comfortable and versatile multimedia tools that will give them the operability they need in their learning process.

The design of this program is based on Problem-Based Learning: an approach that views learning as a highly practical process. To achieve this remotely, TECH will use telepractice: with the help of an innovative interactive video system and Learning from an Expert, the student will be able to acquire the knowledge as if they were facing the scenario they are learning at that moment. A concept that will allow students to integrate and memorize what they have learnt in a more realistic and permanent way. 

A program created and managed by active professionals who are experts in this field of work, which makes this program a unique opportunity for professional growth”

Our innovative telepractice concept will give you the opportunity to learn through an immersive experience, with a high educational impact”

The professional master’s degree offers detailed information on the most relevant advances in the specialty from an eminently practical point of view, in a time where accredited knowledge is essential. 

The objective of this program is to offer professionals who work in Voice Therapy the knowledge and skills required to perform their duties using the most advanced protocols and techniques.

A professional master’s degree created to lead the professionals to acquire their professional improvement objectives, in an intensive but flexible way, with the best learning system of the moment"

General Objectives

• Learn the specific anatomical and functional aspects of the phonatory system as a basis for the rehabilitation of vocal pathologies and for vocal work with voice professionals
• Gain in-depth knowledge of the most current diagnostic and treatment techniques
• Delve into the knowledge and analysis of the results obtained in objective voice assessments
• Learn how to implement a correct and complete assessment of vocal function in daily clinical practice
• Know the most important features of the voice and learn to listen to different types of voices in order to know which aspects are altered to guide clinical practice
• Analyze the different possible vocal pathologies and achieve scientific rigor in treatments
• Learn about different approaches to the treatment of vocal pathologies
• Raise awareness of the need for vocal care
• Teach Voice Therapy work focused on different voice professionals.
• Learn the importance of multidisciplinary work in some voice pathologies
• View the voice as a global ability of the person and not as an exclusive act of the phonatory system
• Solve real case studies with current therapeutic approaches based on scientific evidence

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Anatomical, Physiological and Biomechanical Basics of the Voice

• Learn about the phylogenetic origin of the phonatory system
• Learn about the evolutionary development of the human larynx
• Learn the main muscles and the functioning of the respiratory system
• Learn about the main anatomical structures that make up the larynx and how they function
• Learn the histology of the vocal cords
• Analyze the vibratory cycle of the vocal cords
• Analyze the different structures and cavities that form the vocal tract
• Study the different theories that have given answers to how voice is produced
• Study the characteristics of phonatory physiology and its main components
• Gain in-depth knowledge of the different exploratory tests used in the morphofunctional exploration of the larynx
• Learn the instruments needed to perform a morphofunctional assessment of the phonatory system

Module 2. Objective Exploration of the Voice 

• Analyze and understand the results obtained with objective screening tests
• Learn in which cases the performance of such objective tests is indicated or not
• Learn concepts of speech acoustics
• Learn the different observable parameters in a spectrogram
• Learn how to analyze a spectrogram
• Know how to collect voice samples for acoustic analysis
• Interpret results obtained in the acoustic analysis of the voice
• Optimally use different acoustic analysis programs

Module 3. Functional Assessment of the Voice 

• Learn to listen to different types of voices with objective criteria
• Apply different audio-perceptual scales in daily practice
• Learn about the different existing vocal function assessment tests
• Know the concept of fundamental frequency and learn how to obtain it from a speech sample
• Know the phonetogram and learn to use it in daily practice
• Calculate vocal functionality indexes
• Perform a complete anamnesis based on patients characteristics
• Learn about additional tests that can guide us in our treatment

Module 4. Normal Voice vs. Pathological Voice 

• Differentiating normal voice from pathological voice
• Differentiate between the concepts of euphonia and dysphonia
• Learn to detect early symptoms/traits of dysphonia through listening
• Know the different types of voices and their characteristics
• Analyze the different types of functional dysphonia
• Analyze the different types of congenital organic dysphonia
• Analyze the different types of acquired organic dysphonia
• Analyze the different types of organic-functional dysphonia
• Be able to identify the observed vocal pathology in an image
• Learn how to analyze and classify a voice according to its audible acoustic features

Module 5. Medical-Surgical Treatments of Vocal Pathology 

• Learn about the different existing phonosurgery techniques
• Learn about the different common laryngeal surgeries
• Be familiar with the different medications prescribed by physicians in case of dysphonia
• Give importance to teamwork in the rehabilitation of voice pathologies

Module 6. Speech Therapy for Voice Disorders 

• Know when speech therapy is or is not indicated
• Know and plan the general objectives of rehabilitation
• Know the different possible approaches in the rehabilitation approach
• Learn the basic principles of muscle conditioning
• Learn the basic principles of respiratory conditioning
• Learn the basic principles of hygiene therapy
• Learn the basic principles of confidential voice therapy
• Learn the basic principles of resonant voice therapy
• Learn the basic principles of the accent method
• Learn the basic principles of vocal function exercises
• Learn the basic principles of fluent phonation
• Learn the basic principles of Lee Silverman LSVT
• Learn the basic principles of physiological therapy
• Learn the basic principles of semi-occluded vocal tract exercises
• Learn the basic principles of manual laryngeal massage
• Learn the basic principles of facilitating sounds
• Learn the basic principles of Estill Voice Training
• Learn the basic principles of the PROEL method
• Learn the basic principles of the NEIRA method
• Learn the basic principles of the body - voice - movement approach
• Know how to choose the most effective therapy for each patient in relation to their specific vocal characteristics and needs

Module 7. Speech Therapy for Pathologies 

• Approach rehabilitation treatment in pathologies of functional origin
• Approach rehabilitation treatment in pathologies of organic origin, both congenital and acquired
• Approach rehabilitation treatment in pathologies of organic-functional origin
• Address rehabilitative treatment in patients who underwent a laryngectomy
• Address vocal conditioning in patients attending a clinic due to gender reassignment
• Solve practical cases

Module 8. The Professional Use of the Spoken Voice 

• Learn the risk groups of professional vocal pathology
• Apply a plan of hygienic measures to care for the voice
• Learn the specific objectives of vocal work for each group of professionals
• Learn to work on aspects of vocal flexibility
• Learn to work aspects of vocal resistance
• Learn to work on the versatility of the voice required in these professional groups
• Make work proposals according to each group
• Solve practical cases
• List the components of the singing voice
• Describe the aspects of emission, articulation and intonation
• Explain the different vocal registers

Module 9. Professional Singing Voice 

• Program voice therapy goals in professional singing voice
• Describe the artistic part of the process
• Explain, handle and manipulate the tone
• Explain, manage and manipulate intensity in a healthy way
• Know, handle and manipulate projection in a healthy way
• Know how to apply a vocal resistance program without damage
• Define the basis of sensorimotor learning applied to the singing voice
• Localize the muscular work in each emission
• Solve practical cases
• Define the relationship between psychology and voice
• Explain the influence of vocal aspects on non-verbal communication

Module 10. Psychology and Voice 

• Explain the importance of multidisciplinary work in the prevention and treatment of voice pathologies
• Describe the relationship between voice and emotions
• Describe the relationship between voice and stress
• Explain the different types of dysphonia in which a multidisciplinary approach is needed
• Analyze aspects of voice problem prevention from a psychological and health perspective

A boost to your professional profile that will give you the competitiveness of the best prepared professionals in the labor market"