Learn how to apply Voice Therapy techniques to alleviate or correct voice disorders throughout a high-quality program, specifically designed to complete your preparation"

The medical professionals intervene in the care of their patients' voice in many contexts and situations. Professionals such as broadcasters, journalists, commercials, actors, singers, etc., require knowledge and management of their speaking apparatus, since its use is essential for their work. In this sense, it is also important to be aware of 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. There are also modifications in the voice due to professional use and to structural and functional alterations associated or not with other pathologies.

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 increases professionals’ 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 voice 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 on the postgraduate diploma, since all of them work in the field. Professionals will learn based on professional experience, as well as evidence-based pedagogy, which makes student’s training more effective and accurate.

With this postgraduate diploma you will be able to balance high-intensity training with your professional and personal life, achieving your goals in a simple and real way"

This postgraduate diploma in Voice Therapy and Voice Disorders offers the characteristics of a high-level educational, 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 are permanently available, even after the program

Incorporate new habits of care and protection of the voice to your work and ensure the good condition of it to avoid injuries and disorders that interfere with your profession"

The collaborators of this postgraduate diploma are 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 trained and experienced professionals in different environments, who will develop the theoretical knowledge in an efficient way, but, above all, will put at the service of the program the practical knowledge derived from their own experience: one of the differential qualities of this specialization program.

This mastery of the subject is complemented by the effectiveness of the methodological design of this postgraduate diploma in Voice Therapy and Voice Disorders. 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, we 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 you to integrate and fix learning in a more realistic and permanent way.

A program created and directed by active professionals who are experts in this field of work, which makes this postgraduate diploma 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 postgraduate diploma 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 necessary knowledge and skills to perform their duties using the most advanced protocols and techniques of the moment.

Our goal is to take you to the acquisition of the techniques and procedures of work in Voice Therapy and Voice Disorders through an up-to-date approach focused directly on the real practice of what you have learned"

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 voice disorders 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 practical case studies with current therapeutic approaches based on scientific evidence

Specific Objectives

Module 1. 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 2. Medical-Surgical Treatments of Vocal Pathologies

• 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 3. Speech Therapy for Voice Disorders

• Give importance to teamwork in the rehabilitation of voice pathologies
• 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

Module 4. 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

A unique specialization program that will allow you to acquire advanced training in this field"