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THE EFFECT OF PERCEPTUAL TRAINING ON ABILITY TO USE THE VOCAL PROFILE ANALYSIS SCHEME
Author(s) -
Shewell Christina
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
international journal of language and communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.101
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1460-6984
pISSN - 1368-2822
DOI - 10.3109/13682829809179444
Subject(s) - psychology , perception , audiology , voice analysis , scheme (mathematics) , reading (process) , reliability (semiconductor) , speech perception , classification scheme , cognitive psychology , voice disorder , speech recognition , linguistics , computer science , medicine , mathematical analysis , philosophy , power (physics) , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , information retrieval
The Vocal Profile Analysis Scheme (VPAS) (Laver et al. 1981) is the vocal perceptual scheme most often used by British speech and language therapists. In this study, the voices of four speakers with normal voices and four with a voice disorder were recorded in reading and independently rated on the VPAS protocol by Dr Sheila Wirz and by the author. Inter‐judge reliability was established and agreement reached in judging the twenty vocal quality features for each speaker. Thirty eight speech and language therapists were assessed on their ability to describe the voices. Significant improvement was found in the ability to rate features. These findings suggest that the use of a perceptual scheme can be a reliable part of voice assessment in both therapy and research.