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The tape recordings were presented to a panel of nine graduate students in communication disorders who rated the productions on a five-point equal-appearing-interval scale of vocal roughness. Further, the judges rated each production for normalcy. Results indicated adequate inter-and intra-judge agreement, ±1 scale value. Fifty-nine percent of the subjects had at least one of their productions rated as abnormal. This incidence was substantially higher than for the adult population as a whole.","abstract_html":"Literature in adult voice disorders has placed several occupations (e.g., actors, teachers, singers, pastors) in a high risk category for voice disorders due to the vocational demands on the speaking voice. The purpose of this study was to delineate vocal roughness in a sample of pastors. Thirty-eight pastors from the Springfield, Missouri community filled out a voice questionnaire and were tape recorded sustaining the vowels / a, i, ae, ^ / and a test sentence, "Joe took father's shoe bench out". The tape recordings were presented to a panel of nine graduate students in communication disorders who rated the productions on a five-point equal-appearing-interval scale of vocal roughness. Further, the judges rated each production for normalcy. Results indicated adequate inter-and intra-judge agreement, ±1 scale value. Fifty-nine percent of the subjects had at least one of their productions rated as abnormal. 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