$795

ON DEMAND

Launch Date: April 16 – World Voice Day

Robyn Merkel-Walsh MA, CCC-SLP, COM®

The human voice is central to communication, identity, professional performance, and emotional expression. Yet vocal health is often overlooked until problems arise.

Coming Soon

Vocal Vitality

Voice Vitality is a comprehensive interdisciplinary course designed to help professionals and voice users understand how anatomy, breathing, oral function, and vocal mechanics work together to produce a healthy and powerful voice.

This program bridges the gaps between speech pathology, vocology, dentistry and laryngology to provide a deeper understanding of how the voice functions and how it can be protected, restored, and optimized through both habilitation and rehabilitation.

Participants will gain practical insight into:

  • The sciences of vocology and speech pathology and what makes them both essential yet unique

Voice anatomy and physiology

  • Identifying factors of how unique voices are shaped
    • Foundational vocal supports to improve vocal clarity, resonance, timbre and stamina
    • Interdisciplinary collaboration between SLPs, ENTs, dentists, and vocal professionals


Whether you are treating voice disorders, coaching performers, or simply rely on your voice every day, this course provides a framework for understanding the science behind vocal health and performance.

The voice is more than a tool for communication. It reflects the integration of respiration, vocal fold agility, articulation and resonance, along with holistic health, posture & alignment and neurological coordination.

Despite its importance, voice education is often fragmented across disciplines. Clinicians may understand pathology but not performance, while performers may understand technique without vocal pathology or other orofacial myofunctional factors that could be sabotaging vocal performance.

This course was created to close that gap.

Voice Vitality brings together perspectives from:

  • Speech-Language Pathology
  • Orofacial Myology
  • Airway Dentistry
  • Laryngology/Otolaryngology
  • Vocal coaching
  • Vocology
  • Professional Voice Users  

By understanding how these systems interact, professionals can better support patients, performers, and voice users across a wide range of contexts.

Voice Vitality is designed for professionals and individuals who rely on the voice in their work or clinical practice.

This includes:

  • Speech-Language Pathologists
  • Voice Professionals
  • Lecturers
  • Dental and Medical ProfessionalsENTs/Laryngologists
  • Educators/Professors
  • Lawyers
  • Religious Lectors
  • Orofacial Myologists
  • Actors, Singers, and Performers
  • Broadcasters, and Public Speakers
  • Anyone seeking a deeper understanding of vocal health

The course is organized into four integrated learning modules designed to address both clinical and performance aspects of voice.


Module 1

The Myo-Voice Connection

This module explores anatomy & physiology, the art of shaping sound, factors that compromise the voice, self assessment tools and examples of vocal analysis through the lenses of orofacial myology and vocology

Topics include:

  • Defining the variations of vocology and speech pathology
  • Aspects of tone, resonance and quality that distinguishes famous voices
  • Anatomy and physiology and common vocal “sabbotagers”
  • Orofacial Myofunctional factors that can impact the voice
  • Common daily habits that impact the voice
  • Clinical analysis and case studies 

Module 2 (COMING SOON)

Vocal Habilitation and Rehabilitation

This module focuses on the prevention, recognition, and recovery of voice disorders.

Topics include:

  • Voice• Early warning signs of vocal injury
    • Voice care and vocal hygiene strategies
    • Case studies in voice rehabilitation
    • Understanding the roles of SLPs, ENTs, and vocal coaches in voice recovery

Module 2 (COMING SOON)

Oral and Airway Health for Vocal Function

The structure of the oral cavity and airway has a direct influence on resonance, airflow, and vocal efficiency.

Topics include:

  • The relationship between dental structures and vocal resonance
    • Tongue-tie, jaw alignment, and airway considerations
    • How structural limitations can affect vocal performance
    • Interdisciplinary collaboration between dental and voice professionals

Module 3 (COMING SOON)

Vocal Performance: Speaking and Singing- Coming Soon

This module examines the techniques used by professional voice users to achieve vocal control and endurance.

Topics include:

  • Breath support and diaphragmatic coordination
    • Resonance tuning and vocal tract shaping
    • Pitch control and vocal dynamics

Holistic self-care

  • Posture and body alignment in vocal performance
    • Strategies for improving vocal stamina and projection

Vocologist Reactions to performance


 

Recording Launches April 16 

This course launches on World Voice Day, an international event dedicated to raising awareness about voice care and vocal health.

The goals of World Voice Day include:

  • Promoting preventative voice care
    • Educating the public about voice disorders
    • Encouraging interdisciplinary research and collaboration
    • Providing practical strategies for protecting vocal function

Voice Vitality is designed to support this mission by bringing together clinicians, educators, and performers to better understand the science behind the human voice.

Voice Vitality offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective rarely found in traditional voice training programs.

Participants will gain:

  • Practical, science-based education on vocal function
  • Insight into the relationship between oral function, breathing, and voice
  • Strategies to improve vocal endurance and clarity
  • Exposure to interdisciplinary collaboration between clinicians and performers
  • Real-world case examples and expert insight

This course is designed for anyone who wants to understand, protect, and strengthen the voice through evidence-based knowledge and practical application.

Join clinicians, educators, performers, and voice professionals for this World Voice Day launch event.

Voice Vitality provides a deeper understanding of how the voice works—and how it can be protected and optimized for life.

Enrollment opens soon.

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