Abstract
To identify the parameters that influences the decision of singing teachers to seek speech-language pathology (SLP) assistance for their students. The study sample comprised 48 popular-music singing teachers, male and female, aged 37.96 years on average. The participants responded to a 10 closed-question questionnaire prepared by the researchers via the SurveyMonkey platform. The questions referred to the reasons why singing teachers seek SLP assistance, as well as to the knowledge of these teachers regarding chronic hoarseness as a risk symptom to identify other lesions in the larynx. Singing teachers seek SLP assistance for their students in the presence of hoarseness complaints and impaired speech sound articulation. The singing teachers assessed did not consider vocal tiredness complaint as a determining factor for referral to SLP evaluation. Most study participants were not aware that a hoarseness complaint for over 15 days can be indicative of larynx tumor. There was no influence of the variables age and time of professional experience in the referral to SLP assistance. Most of the singing teachers who participated in this study sought SLP assistance for their students when they presented hoarseness complaints and impaired speech sound articulation.
Highlights
Trabalho realizado no Centro de Estudos da Voz – CEV - São Paulo (SP), Brasil. 1 Centro de Estudos da Voz – CEV - São Paulo (SP), Brasil
identify the parameters that influences the decision of singing teachers to seek speech-language pathology
37.96 years on average. The participants responded to a 10 closed-question questionnaire prepared by the researchers
Summary
Objetivo: Identificar os fatores que influenciam a decisão do professor de canto em solicitar ajuda fonoaudiológica para seus alunos. Estas perguntas referiam-se aos motivos pelos quais o professor de canto popular busca ajuda fonoaudiológica e sobre o conhecimento desses professores a respeito da rouquidão persistente ser um sintoma de risco que identifique outro tipo de lesão na laringe. Resultados: Os resultados indicaram que professores de canto buscam ajuda fonoaudiológica na presença de queixa de voz rouca e dificuldade de articulação. Houve maior proporção de professores de canto que não sabiam que queixa de rouquidão por mais do que quinze dias pode ser sinal de lesão maligna de laringe. Conclusão: A maior parte dos professores de canto avaliados busca ajuda fonoaudiológica quando o aluno apresenta queixa de voz rouca e dificuldade de articulação dos sons da fala
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