Voice Therapy: Clinical Case Studies - Softcover

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Joseph C. Stemple, PhD, CCC-SLP, ASHAF is Professor Emeritus, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Health Sciences, University of Kentucky. Prior to his academic career he was the founder and director of the Blaine Block Institute for Voice Analysis and Rehabilitation, Dayton, Ohio and the Professional Voice Center of Greater Cincinnati. As co-director of the UK Laryngeal and Speech Dynamics Lab, his research focused on understanding voice disorders, specifically cell to society translational research. The overarching research goal was to enhance vocal function in those with voice disorders. He is a Fellow and Honors recipient of the American Speech Language Hearing Association.

Edie R. Hapner, PhD, CCC-SLP, is the George W. Barber Junior Endowed Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where she also serves as the Co-Director of the UAB Voice Center and the Director of Hearing and Speech. She is a fellow of the American Speech Language and Hearing Association and Associate Fellow of the American Laryngological Association. Dr. Hapner has served on the Board of Directors for the American Speech Language and Hearing Association as the Vice President of Planning, Coordinator of the SIG 3 Voice and Voice Disorders and chaired the ASHA Annual Convention in both 2020 and 2022. She has served as a member of the Voice Committee for the American Academy of Otolaryngology and the Education Committee for the American Bronchoesophageal Association and served on the AAOHNS Guidelines Committee for Dysphonia. She is a founding member of PAVES, Pathway for Advanced Voice Education and Service and currently serves on the Advisory Board.

Dr. Hapner's research interests include aging voice, dystonia and adherence to voice therapy. She has co-edited Voice Therapy Clinical Case Studies Editions 4, 5 and now 6. She is co-developer of Phonation Resistance Training Exercises (PhoRTE (R)), an evidence-based treatment for aging voice. She developed and implemented the voice curriculum for Medbridge Inc, an online learning system for speech language pathologists. She has presented hundreds of lectures, workshops, and seminars on voice and voice disorders. She has over 70 published articles in the area of voice and voice disorders and multiple book chapters. Dr. Hapner's greatest professional accomplishment remains the mentoring of 23 consecutive voice centric clinical fellows into this incredible world of care of the voice.

Lauren Timmons Sund, BM, MS, CCC-SLP is the Speech Pathology Director for the USC Voice Center in Los Angeles, CA. She is the Clinical Fellowship Director at the USC Voice Center and an instructor and clinical educator for the graduate SLP program at the University of Southern California.

Lauren earned her master's degree in communicative disorders from California State University, Northridge, completed a research internship at the University of Pittsburgh Voice Center, and trained as a clinical fellow in voice, upper airway, and swallowing disorders at the USC Voice Center under the mentorship of Edie Hapner, PhD. She holds a Bachelor of Music in voice performance from Illinois Wesleyan University.

Lauren specializes in the care of patients with voice and upper airway disorders with particular clinical and research interest in performance voice, aging voice, laryngeal dystonia, and interprofessional practice. She has published 20+ peer-reviewed articles and regularly presents locally and nationally. Lauren served as course co-director for the Fall Voice Conference 2024, is a past president of the Southern California Chapter of the Voice Foundation, a current committee chair for PAVES (Pathway for Advanced Voice Education and Service), and is on the Advisory Board for the Voice Foundation.