Director
Director: Mary J. Sandage, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Website: VPLab
Program: SLP
Description: The Voice Physiology Lab conducts research that merges basic muscle physiology and exercise performance testing practices with measures of voice function. This interdisciplinary approach to voice function is a developing specialty within voice pathology and the goal of this approach is to twofold: 1) identify occupation-specific voice requirements (vocal dose, vocal power and vocal ergonomics) and 2) develop habilitation and rehabilitation training programs that honor client specific voice needs based on principles of muscle physiology. The work conducted in this laboratory is primarily interprofessional in nature with active research collaborations established with the Departments of Music, Theatre, Mathematics, and Statistics; the School of Kinesiology; and the School of Construction and Building Science.