Description
Treating Vocal Cord Dysfunction can be challenging, especially if you are a speech pathologist who hasn’t had a good base-education on Paradoxical Vocal Fold Motion, or doesn’t see it often on caseload. Harder still, is getting information into your patients’ hands that is succinct and easy to read, backed by research.
Have you been piece-ing together handouts in Microsoft Word?
Writing breathing techniques by hand each session becoming challenging?
Do you have a hodge-podge of handouts from grad school?
You’ll love these crisp and beautiful handouts!
The best part? They are in English and Spanish!
***Help teach your respiratory therapists, physicians, coaches, teachers and parents AND your patients about how you are treating this disorder***
Includes 28 concisely designed and informative printable handouts for you to use in your practice as you educate patients, clients or students about treating VCD. 14 of these are in English, then are directly translated into 14 more in Spanish.
**Updated 2022 to contain 10 patient practice videos
- Tooth Variant regular, then slow motion
- Lip Variant regular, then slow motion
- Tongue Variant regular, then slow motion
- All 4 with Finger cues for Air Direction
- Tooth Variant during running exercise
- Lip Variant during running exercise
- Tongue Variant during running exercise
- Tooth Variant during rowing exercise
- Lip Variant during rowing exercise
- Tongue Variant during rowing exercise
You can feel confident in your VCD treatment skills, you can help your patients improve and you can take the apprehension and impostor syndrome out of treating voice and upper airway.
With you license you can:
1) Download instantly
2) Use right away with your patients
3) Text, email, screen share or doc share with your PATIENTS
Teletherapy will be a breeze with this option! (Just please purchase a separate license for your colleagues or co-workers)
Source for information is located on handouts and on reference page for further reading regarding evidence for information provided.
Handouts include:
– What is Vocal Cord Dysfunction?
-What co-occurs with VCD?
– Differential Diagnosis for SLP’s treating Vocal Cord Dysfunction (checklist)
-What is SLP’s role in evaluation of VCD?
– Speech Therapy for My Breathing? (handout with visuals to end patient confusion)
-Team approach for Vocal Cord Dysfunction
-Current Views on VCD with a very important graphic inspired by Vertigan and Gibson’s Book
-What does VCD therapy look like?
-Exercise Induced Laryngeal Obstructive Biphasic Inspiration (Todd Olin’s techniques in an easy-to-read format) with a link to his research article from journal of voice online for a demonstration video. (The article is copyrighted, so permission needs to be obtained by you or your institution to access it)
– Nasal Inhalation
– Yes You Can! Special Considerations for VCD patients
– Daily practice sheets (small font and design) for front/back printing
-Vocal Wellness/ Vocal Care/Vocal Hygiene
– Each handout is in English (14) and Spanish (14)
Jessica –
Excellent packet! I have received several new outpatient voice referrals consistent with the profile of vocal cord dysfunction. Although I am a clinician who tries to stay up-to-date with current research and practice methods, it can be overwhelming to translate that information into patient-friendly materials, especially on a busy schedule. Kristie has a knack for this! Can’t recommend this VCD packet (and attached rticle reference list) enough. The videos are an added bonus! Thanks Kristie!
Alexandria (verified owner) –
This has been a wonderful resource added to my practice! After using Voice in A Jiff with my clients, I knew that I could trust Kristi’s shop to provide a VCD resource that would help my patients. Voice is not my clinical specialty but Kristi’s resources have made me feel very confident and prepared treating voice disorders. Thanks Kristi!!