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Semin Speech Lang 2021; 42(01): 032-040
DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1722751
Review Article

Conversation Training Therapy: Let's Talk It Through

Jackie Gartner-Schmidt
1   Department of Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh Voice Center, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Amanda I. Gillespie
2   Emory Voice Center, Department of Otolaryngology, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory University Hospital Midtown, Atlanta, Georgia
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Abstract

This article introduces a novel approach to voice therapy called conversation training therapy (CTT). CTT is the first voice therapy approach to remove the therapeutic hierarchy common in most treatment programs. Rather, CTT uses patient-driven conversation as the sole stimuli in therapy to increase perceptual awareness of voice production in conversational speech. The genesis as to why CTT was developed, as well as the conceptual, theoretical, and component parts of CTT, will be explained. In addition, this article will offer examples of the language of therapy, as it applies to CTT and how to trouble-shoot if problems arise. Medical documentation relevant to CTT will also be outlined. Last, results from a recent efficacy study on CTT will be reported.

Keywords

voice therapy - conversation - efficacy - training

Financial Disclosure

J.G-S. and A.I.G. receive royalties from MedBridge, Inc. for an educational video offering Continuing Education Units on Conversation Training Therapy.




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Article published online:
17 February 2021

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