Georgia Dacakis

TL;DR: Investigating the effectiveness of vocal hygiene training and vocal function exercises in reducing vocal symptoms and vocal misuse, and increasing knowledge of voice care, maximum phonation time, and maximum phonational frequency range in school teachers indicates that preventative voice training for teachers is likely to be effective.

TL;DR: Psychometric evidence of the reliability of the TVQ(MtF) is provided, with Voice pitch reported as the most problematic aspect of vocal functioning, and psychosocial issues were the most frequently reported voice-related impacts.

TL;DR: The present study supports the findings of previous studies that have demonstrated that resonance characteristics in male-to-female transsexuals can be changed to more closely approximate those of females through oral resonance therapy and demonstrates that a spontaneous increase in F0 is achieved during the course of therapy.

TL;DR: There was a significant correlation between the number of treatment sessions and the maintenance of F0 increases, although the size of the correlation was more modest when the data from one subject who had received 90 treatment sessions were removed.

TL;DR: The nature of transsexualism, the highly structured gender reassignment programmes in Melbourne, Australia, and the management of the communication problems of such individuals are discussed.