The British Voice Association

   

World Voice Day 2008 - events and activities in the UK

Updated: 5th April 2008

Voice Production and Voice Care

World Voice Day is held annually on 16 April 2008.  This year the British Voice Association has produced two leaflets offering help for voice problems. One is directed at those who are worried about their own voice, the other at parents who are concerned about changes in their child’s voice. We are grateful to Lesley Cavalli, Specialist SLT at Great Ormond St Hospital for making the changes in wording for the child’s version.

  -  Download information leaflet 'Tune in to Your Voice'

  -  Download information leaflet 'Tune in to you Child's Voice'

World Voice Day 2008 - events & activities in the UK

Click here to find out more how healthy voices were celebrated throughout the UK

 

 

 

Also available

Read Voice Production and Voice Care information and guidelines (Written by Sara Harris, Specialist Speech and Language Therapist and Team member, The Voice Clinic, London).

Read and download our leaflet 'Taking Care of Your Voice'

Click here to learn more about observance of World Voice Day in the USA

 

 

Celebrating Healthy Voices in the UK in 2008

Sidcup: Speech and Language Therapy Department
Sara Harris has done a short radio interview recently about the range of voice problems and how they occur for Taunton local radio. The presenter promised to mention World Voice Day and to direct people to the BVA website for further information.

Scotland: Grampian and Highland District Speech and Language Therapy Department
The Speech Therapists in this area plan to distribute a World Voice Day leaflet, the “How to get help” poster and information about their Voice Care Workshops, to all the local schools and Call Centers in their area. They report they did the same thing last year and that a small response was generated as a result.

Scotland: Paisley Speech and Language Therapy Department
Leaflets will be distributed to local schools, Hospitals and Health Centers across the Paisley region.

Scotland: Lothian SLT Department in
Leaflets will be distributed to all the local GPs.

Ireland: The Teachers of Singing in Ireland (Tosini)
A concert is planned in Belfast for Tuesday, 15th April 2008 entitled: Songs from the Heart …. And Soul!

It will be held in Elmwood Hall, University Road, Belfast at 8pm. Tickets will cost £12.50 (Tosini members and student £5). The evening will celebrate the diversity of the human voice with songs from the world of classical voice, opera, popular song & musical theatre, and featuring some of Northern Ireland's most dedicated singing teachers and some of their very promising students. 

Anyone in the Belfast area who is interested in attending please telephone: 028 9079 0500  

The group is also planning to contact BCC Northern Ireland (TV) and the BBC Arts Extra programme (radio), some smaller local radio stations and the Irish News and Belfast Telegraph newspapers to publicize the event and raise awareness of World Voice Day.

London: Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital
The SLT Department at Great Ormond Street Hospital is planning a stand in the hospital  foyer with information about children's voice problems. They are also launching their recently revised voice care information leaflet for parents of children with voice problems and a new leaflet designed for older children. Both leaflets will be available on their website.

Nottingham area
Voice Care Network Tutor Susan Evans, is putting on an evening of readings (poetry and prose) celebrating the human voice, at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, on Friday April 18th at 7.30 p.m. Called ‘Voices Aloud’, entrance is free, but tickets are limited. For full details please telephone Susan Evans 0115 9566460.

Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire areas
Janet Smith is a freelance journalist writing for ‘Country Images, a free magazine delivered monthly to around 36,000 homes in the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire areas. She has interviewed a Nottingham based Voice Teacher, Susan Evans, from the Voice Care Network about World Voice Day, and her work with professional voice users. The article is due to appear at the beginning of April.

London: Human Resources and Development exhibition (HRD 2008)
To mark World Voice Day and to raise awareness of healthy, effective voice use, Simply Speaking Ltd is offering free voice assessments to anyone who visits the Human Resources and Development exhibition (HRD 2008) between 15th – 17th April. Simply Speaking provides training in presentation, voice and media skills and will be exhibiting at stand 843. Its Managing Director is Helen Sewell (MA Voice Studies).

HRD 2008 is organised by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and will take place at ExCel London, One Western Gateway, Royal Victoria Dock, London, E16 1XL. More information about the exhibition can be found by at the HRD 2008 page of the ExCel London website.

                       

 

London: Writers Guild of Great Britain
Ground Floor, 15 Britannia Street, London (around the corner from the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital)
Thursday 16th April 2008 - 1-2pm. No charge.

Literature reading, poetry, etc., from an anthology on voice (eg. stammering, aphasia, etc).