Anneli Laine

TL;DR: The results prove voice disorders to be more frequent among day care center teachers than among control group subjects, and also that the main cause for this may be a higher vocal loading among day Care Center Teachers than amongcontrol group subjects.

TL;DR: The results of this second study indicate that vocal symptoms had increased considerably in teachers in 2001, and a growing number of misbehaving pupils probably cause increased background noise and stress and, thus, increase the vocal symptoms in teachers.

TL;DR: An epidemiological study was conducted to find out the prevalence of voice disorders among students studying to be teachers and showed that 20% of this population reported two or more vocal symptoms during the previous year and that 19% had an organic voice disorder.

TL;DR: Phonation into glass tubes, keeping the free end of the tube in water, has been a frequently used voice therapy method in Finland for more than four decades.

TL;DR: It was found that day care center teachers use their voices more and with higher levels than nurses do and that the background noise levels are high, which is partly due to the poor acoustics and lack of sufficient attenuation of the rooms.