{"id":171004,"date":"2021-04-01T10:12:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T14:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=171004"},"modified":"2021-04-01T10:12:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T14:12:02","slug":"podcast-a-clear-voice-on-vocal-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2021\/04\/podcast-a-clear-voice-on-vocal-health\/","title":{"rendered":"PODCAST: A Clear Voice on Vocal Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>[Voice disorders] are extremely common, and they&#8217;re important for us to take care of because the voice is so much a part of who we are.<\/p>\n<h4>\u2014Dr. Denis Lafreniere, UConn Health Voice and Speech Clinic<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to be a performing artist to be a &#8220;professional voice user.&#8221; It&#8217;s really anybody who uses his or voice to get through the day, such as a teacher, parent, or anyone who regularly communicates by speech.<\/p>\n<p>UConn Health&#8217;s Voice and Speech Clinic, which opened nearly 25 years ago as the state&#8217;s first professional voice clinic, treats voice users of all levels. Two of the program&#8217;s founders, <a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/find-a-provider\/physician\/Lafreniere-Denis\">Dr. Denis Lafreniere<\/a>, ear, nose and throat specialist, and Starr Cookman, a speech pathologist, discuss voice disorders and the importance of addressing them in the latest episode of the UConn Health Pulse podcast.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/otolaryngology\/services\/voice-and-speech-clinic\/\">Learn more about the UConn Health Voice and Speech Clinic.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"nVTLkKm4Le\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/archives\/uconn-health-podcast\/a-clear-voice-on-vocal-health\">A Clear Voice on Vocal Health<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;A Clear Voice on Vocal Health&#8221; &#8212; UConn Health\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/archives\/uconn-health-podcast\/a-clear-voice-on-vocal-health\/embed#?secret=mPCDcakPiD#?secret=nVTLkKm4Le\" data-secret=\"nVTLkKm4Le\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two founders of UConn Health&#8217;s Voice and Speech Clinic join the UConn Health Pulse podcast to discuss voice disorders and how their practice helps voice users of all levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":158112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2231,179],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2010],"class_list":["post-171004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-well-being","category-uconn-health"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 00:37:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171004"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171012,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171004\/revisions\/171012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/158112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171004"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=171004"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=171004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}