APPROACHES TO WORKING WITH THE AGING VOICE: ASSESSMENT & TREATMENT

Join us at New Royal Liverpool Hospital for a focused training day designed to equip speech therapists — whether just starting out or seasoned professionals — with practical, evidence-based approaches to voice therapy for the aging population.

This day will provide you with a clear understanding of the physiology of the aging voice, along with up-to-date assessment and management techniques. Through interactive sessions, case discussions, and hands-on practice, you will learn strategies to improve vocal function tailored to your clients’ specific needs. You will gain tools to help older adults strengthen their voices, enhance clarity, and maintain vocal health, promoting greater social participation and wellbeing. As well as adding transferable skills that will be beneficial for the wider voice caseload.

Whether you work in hospitals, community clinics, or private practice, this training is an opportunity to expand your skill set, learn from expert facilitators, and connect with peers enthusiastic about supporting the aging voice.

Take this step to deepen your knowledge and refine your clinical approach.

Together, we can help our clients maintain their most important communication tool—their voice—well into later life.

Our Speaker

Since1995 Jane Shaw has been leading clinician for Doncaster’s specialist Voice service. In this role she runs the joint voice clinic with Otolaryngologist Mark Watson. This clinic has pioneered the use of in-office vocal cord injection medialisation procedures in Britain. She also has special interests in singing voice and in LPR, its role in the aetiology of globus and dysphonia, and its medical and lifestyle management. Over the last 25 years, she and her team have run an SLT-led nasoendoscopy biofeedback clinic.

In 2008 she designed and implemented the CATS Parallel clinic. This is a “one stop” diagnostic and treatment digital endoscopy SLT clinic where dysphonic patients are referred directly from their GP, without previously having an ENT examination.

She was appointed as an advisor to the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists in 2003, advising in the field of dysphonia. As such, she has acted as a consultant on policy and contributed to documents for both the Department of Health and RCSLT. Over recent years she has spoken at several conferences and regularly runs training days and workshops on voice for specialist speech and language therapists, GPs, ENT registrars and consultants.

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