Vocal Habilitation

Workshops

Don’t Lose It, Use It: New Skills to Support and Maintain Your Speaking Voice

Angelynne introduces techniques designed to help people with Parkinson’s maintain vocal stamina and breathing exercises that can aid in the efficiency of voice production and articulation. Through this interactive workshop, participants learn how group singing is beneficial in supplementing and continuing medical therapies. No singing experience is necessary! 

Currently Angelynne is the guest leader for Tremble Clefs-Boston, a chorus designed for people with Parkinson’s. Most recently she was a featured speaker at “Parkinson’s Disease: Strategies to Manage Some Common Challenges,” hosted by Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and the Hitchcock Foundation.  

Individual Sessions

Angelynne will design a “singing therapy” program for individuals with Parkinson’s Disease, stroke patients and voice injured clients. Working closely with the client and their medical team, Angelynne will help to help increase vocal efficiency and proficiency. 

Singing Therapy Includes:

• Initial voice assessment report 

• Six - eight session course of treatment with regular progress updates

• Individualized practice plan recorded on CD/MP3 for personal use

• Increased vocal awareness of specific behaviors of the vocal tract 

• Personal guidelines for vocal hygiene and health

• Talk to your medical team about using singing techniques to improve your speaking voice.  

The Case for Singing as Voice Therapy

Medical studies have linked the benefits of singing to vocal stamina. By learning to use the techniques professional singers employ, people can increase the efficiency and quality of their speaking voice. Learning about breath management, basic vocal tract physiology, and personal vocal health regimens will help restore and rehabilitate the voice. These singing techniques transfer to the speaking voice and help with a variety of voice dysfunctions brought on by stroke, Parkinson’s Disease, reduced lung function/capacity and vocal tract surgery.

Angelynne’s Training

• Graduate level vocal studies: University of New Hampshire and New England Conservatory

• Advanced coursework vocal pedagogy and voice disorders: UNH

• Vocal Physiology and Anatomy:  Mass. General Hospital

• Functional Voice Training: Lichtenberg Institute, Germany

• Actor-Singer Integration:  Wesley Balk Opera/Music Theatre Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota 

Education
J.D., UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law
B.A., Harvard University
Phillips Exeter Academy