A study aimed at teaching educators the most appropriate and effective way to implement in their work the most interesting and useful speech therapy treatments for their profession"

Speech therapy offers a necessary complementary way to comprehensively address voice disorders. Incorporating this specific knowledge into your skills allows you to offer broader responses to voice problems that occur in the teaching practice.

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.

Another type of change is due to sex-related differences. There are also modifications in the voice 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 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 of the postgraduate certificate, as they all 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 postgraduate certificate you will be able to combine high intensity training with your personal and professional life, achieving your goals in a simple and real way”

This postgraduate certificate in Speech Therapy Treatment for 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

A highly skilled preparation that will enable you to become a highly competent professional"

The collaborators of this postgraduate certificate are professionals in the sector who will provide the greatest compendium of knowledge in both scientific and more 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 program.

This mastery of the subject is complemented by the effectiveness of the methodological design of this postgraduate certificate in Speech Therapy Treatment for 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 renewal created and directed by active professionals who are experts in this area of work, making this program a unique opportunity for professional growth"

The learning of this program is developed through the most advanced didactic means in online teaching to guarantee that your effort will have the best possible results"

The online Postgraduate Certificate offers in detail the most relevant advances in the specialty from an eminently practical point of view, in an era in which the accreditation of knowledge plays a fundamental role.

The objective of this program is to provide professionals working in voice therapy with the knowledge and skills necessary to perform their activity using the most advanced protocols and techniques available.

Advances in speech therapy, applied from a teacher's point of view, will allow you to advance in your profession through specific knowledge of the care of the teacher's basic tool"

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 case studies with current therapeutic approaches based on scientific evidence

Specific Objectives

• Know when speech therapy treatment is or isn’t 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
• 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 boost to your CV that will give you the competitiveness of the best prepared professionals in the labor market"