Table of Contents

Contents. Preface. Chapter 1. Is Your Voice Telling on You? Chapter 2. Basic Mechanisms Needed for a Normal Voice. Chapter 3. Enemies of a Natural Voice. Chapter 4. You and Your Natural Voice. Chapter 5. To Breathe or Not to Breathe. Chapter 6. Loud Enough or Too Loud? Chapter 7. The Well-Aimed Pitch. Chapter 8. Is Your Voice in Focus? Chapter 9. Talking Through Your Nose. Chapter 10. Your Emotions and Your Voice. Chapter 11. Stage Fright and Related Fears. Chapter 12. Your Voice on Phones and Other Electronic Gadgetry. Chapter 13. The Female Voice. Chapter 14. The Male Voice. Chapter 15. Ten Steps for Keeping Your Natural Voice. Chapter 16. Professional Help for Voice Problems. Suggested References. Index.

About the Author

Daniel R. Boone, PhD, is a professor emeritus in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Arizona. He has published 17 books and more than 100 other publications (chapters and articles) on voice and motor speech problems. He is revered nationally and internationally for his teaching and clinical activities as well as for his love and dedication to his students, and he is a household name to all who study speech pathology.Dr. Boone, who belongs to the "group of founding fathers of American speech pathology," is sought after as a speaker, lecturer, and workshop leader on voice disorders, communication problems in aging, and new perspectives in speech pathology. He is a former president of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and a recipient of both Fellowship and the Honors from that organization, as well as many other honors and recognitions. He serves on numerous editorial boards of scholarly journals and contributes regularly to research literature. Dr. Boone continues to offer voice therapy workshops for the Parkinson Voice Project in Dallas, Texas, and serves as a voice and motor speech consultant in his studio in Tucson.