ROLE OF THE COMPUTERIZED SPEECH LAB (CSL) AND MULTI-DIMENSIONAL VOICE PROGRAM (MDVP) IN VOICE DISORDERS’ INSTRUMENTAL DIAGNOSTICS

Abstract

It is a fact that voice pathology has an expressed frequent appearance in the last decades and the problem of voice disorders and their speech ther­apy assessment is not elaborated enough in the logopedical literature in Bulgaria and Macedonia. One of the basic factors on which treatment effec­tiveness depends is the correct diagnosis from logopedics point of view on which treatment pro­gram could be established.
The purpose of the present article is to present a new instrument for a secondary voice assessment-an acoustic analysis of the voice as a part of Com­puterized Speech Lab (CSL) named Multi-Dimen­sional Voice Program (MDVP).
There is no developed PhD on voice pathology the last 3 decades in Republic of Bulgaria. In compari­son with language, fluency and articulation disor­ders, voice disorders are considerably ignored and neglected. The speech-language pathologists do not feel very well prepared to work with this kind of pathology.