Vocal Roughness in Selected Pastors

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. This incidence was substantially higher than for the adult population as a whole.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Communication Sciences and Disorders

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication Sciences and Disorders

Year

1987

Author dc:creator

• DeCocq, Jacqueline Rae

Contributors dc:contributor

• Randolph Deal

• Communication Sciences and Disorders

Statement dc:rights

• © Jacqueline Rae DeCocq

Repository record dc:identifier

https://bearworks.missouristate.edu/theses/62

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:bearworks.missouristate.edu:theses-1063