Combining Voice, Speech Science and Art Approaches to Resonant Challenges in Transgender Voice and Communication Training

No AccessSIG 10 Issues in Higher EducationArticle1 Jan 2017Combining Voice, Speech Science and Art Approaches to Resonant Challenges in Transgender Voice and Communication Training Sandy Hirsch Sandy Hirsch Give VoiceSeattle, WA Bellevue School DistrictBellevue, WA Google Scholar https://doi.org/10.1044/persp2.SIG10.74 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In It is our professional and ethical responsibility to seek to increase consistent efficiency and relevance in order to provide healthy, satisfying, sustainable outcomes that are reproducible to the highest percentage of clients and patients. This is no less true when serving transgender and gender-nonconforming clients who come to us to align their communication with their gender identity. In the past decade or more, there has been a growing acceptance and body of transgender voice and communication research and literature that supports the understanding that pitch modification alone is not an adequate therapy focus in order to confidently change the auditory perception of gender. This paper presents a resonance training approach, Acoustic Assumptions, that the author has developed over the past decade. The program has its basis in speech and voice science as well as performance voice. It provides a systematic method by which clients can understand certain resonance challenges and how to solve them as they simultaneously work on modifying pitch, and developing inflectional patterns in order to align their communication with their gender identity. As yet, there has been no formal research developed using this program. 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