Brighton teacher concerned about strain on teachers’ voices

Posted on Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

An elementary school teacher in Brighton agrees completely with a study about how educators damage their voices.

Deb Saint Amant of Spring Valley Public School has needed physical therapy and a wireless amplifier to rescue her career because she loses her voice four or five times a year.

The deputy director of the National Center for Voice and Speech, in Utah, Eric Hunter, says the toll taken on teachers’ voices is a largely neglected field of study.

Saint Amant says a medical specialist told her teachers aren’t taught how to use their voices and to speak from the diaphragm, which was also confirmed in Hunter’s study. The study also found female teachers have more voice problems than their male counterparts.

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