BRITISH VOICE ASSOCIATION - The Voice for Voice

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BVA News in brief...

March 2008

BVA Forthcoming Events 2008-2009

Our main focus this year, after the Research Day (Feb 22), the Voice Clinic Forum (Mar 6), and the Wythenshawe Voice Days (April 10-11), is the Choice for Voice multi-disciplinary event in July, described fully elsewhere in the Newsletter. After that there are as yet no firm dates for your diaries, but the following items are in the pipeline:

Acoustics Day in September or early October (London)

BVA in Scotland organised by Moira Little, possibly in November

‘What do the others do?’ - a multi-disciplinary event following the very successful format of July 2007, in Manchester or Leeds, February 2009, organised by Dane Chalfin.

Other areas under consideration are an Accent Method course and a conference on ‘psychology and the voice’, including Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Solution Focus and recent research in performance anxiety.

As always, the Education Working Party is very open to suggestions for courses and/or speakers that would interest you.

Congratulations

We offer our congratulations to Sara Harris for her fellowship and Tom Harris for his honorary fellowship which was awarded by the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists in recognition of their work in the field of voice.

Sara Harris Tom Harris

Addendum

The Voice Skills Perceptual Profile as described by Christina Shewall Communicating Voice Vol 8 Issue 2 November 2007 was first published in the newsletter of the International Centre for Voice Vol 4, Issue 4 Winter 2005.

The 'Manchester' Course

CLINICAL VOICE DISORDERS - a Practical Approach

Formerly the BVA’s Nottingham Voice Days, this two-day event will take place at The Education & Research Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester on Thursday 10th and Friday 11th April 2008.

Full details of the programme, topics, speakers and workshop-based activities can be found by clicking here, along with a downloadable application form

‘Fundamentals of the Singing Voice’ and Peter Harrison's questions

In the next edition of Communicating Voice (July 2008) BVA President Linda Hutchison will report on the joint BVA and “City Lit” joint project “Fundamentals of the Singing Voice” a ten week course for Singing Teachers which began in January.