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Vocology, originally coined by voice scientist Ingo R. Titze, has been defined as the science and practice of voice habilitation . It parallels audiology
Audiology

Audiology is the branch of Science that studies hearing, balance and related disorders. Its practitioners, who treat those with hearing loss and proactively prevent related damage are audiologists....
, the study of hearing and the treatment of hearing disorders. Vocology combines the disciplines of speech and language pathology
Speech and language pathology

Speech-language pathology is the study of disorders that affect a person's speech, language, cognition, voice, swallowing and the Physical medicine and rehabilitation or corrective treatment of physical and/or cognition deficits/Speech disorder resulting in difficulty with communication and/or swallowing....
, and laryngology
Laryngology

Laryngology is that branch of medicine which deals with the illnesses and injury of the larynx.Common pathologies addressed by laryngologists include vocal cord polyps, cysts, nodules, and cancer....
, as well as singing training and voice training for actors and public speakers. The study of vocology has advanced such that it is a fundamental part of current voice research (including a journal entitled Logopedics, Phoniatrics, Vocology) and training programs. Training in vocology is or have been offered at institutions such as the National Center for Voice and Speech
National Center for Voice and Speech

The National Center for Voice and Speech , a division of The Denver Center for the Performing Arts in Denver, Colorado, is the only voice research/clinical facility in the world associated with a performing arts center....
 (Denver, CO), Westminster Choir College
Westminster Choir College

Westminster Choir College is a residential college of music located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States.Westminster Choir College educates men and women at the undergraduate and graduate levels for musical careers in music education, voice performance, piano performance, organ performance, pedagogy, music theory and composition, conduct...
 of Rider University
Rider University

Rider University is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian university located chiefly in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, in Mercer County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States....
 (Princeton, NJ), The Grabscheid Voice Center at Mount Sinai Medical Center (NY), and the Vox Humana Laboratory at St.






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Vocology, originally coined by voice scientist Ingo R. Titze, has been defined as the science and practice of voice habilitation . It parallels audiology
Audiology

Audiology is the branch of Science that studies hearing, balance and related disorders. Its practitioners, who treat those with hearing loss and proactively prevent related damage are audiologists....
, the study of hearing and the treatment of hearing disorders. Vocology combines the disciplines of speech and language pathology
Speech and language pathology

Speech-language pathology is the study of disorders that affect a person's speech, language, cognition, voice, swallowing and the Physical medicine and rehabilitation or corrective treatment of physical and/or cognition deficits/Speech disorder resulting in difficulty with communication and/or swallowing....
, and laryngology
Laryngology

Laryngology is that branch of medicine which deals with the illnesses and injury of the larynx.Common pathologies addressed by laryngologists include vocal cord polyps, cysts, nodules, and cancer....
, as well as singing training and voice training for actors and public speakers. The study of vocology has advanced such that it is a fundamental part of current voice research (including a journal entitled Logopedics, Phoniatrics, Vocology) and training programs. Training in vocology is or have been offered at institutions such as the National Center for Voice and Speech
National Center for Voice and Speech

The National Center for Voice and Speech , a division of The Denver Center for the Performing Arts in Denver, Colorado, is the only voice research/clinical facility in the world associated with a performing arts center....
 (Denver, CO), Westminster Choir College
Westminster Choir College

Westminster Choir College is a residential college of music located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States.Westminster Choir College educates men and women at the undergraduate and graduate levels for musical careers in music education, voice performance, piano performance, organ performance, pedagogy, music theory and composition, conduct...
 of Rider University
Rider University

Rider University is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian university located chiefly in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, in Mercer County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States....
 (Princeton, NJ), The Grabscheid Voice Center at Mount Sinai Medical Center (NY), and the Vox Humana Laboratory at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital (NY).

See also

  • Human Voice
    Human voice

    The human voice consists of sound Voice production by a human being using the vocal folds for Speech communication, singing, Laughter, crying, screaming, etc....


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  • (the official scientific journal of the Nordic Cooperation Council of Logopedics and Phoniatrics and of The British Voice Association)