title: [A single appointment with a speech therapist can release a patient, even from a long-term aphonic status! Three clinical cases].
abstract: Those three clinical cases involved aphonic female patients without any laryngeal disorders for their ENTs. 1) The first one had been out of work since 11/2 year because of her aphonia. She was still suffering from it in spite of a weekly speech therapy session and a monthly psychotherapy appointment. 2) The second patient had been aphonic for 3 weeks. Three different ENTs had renewed her prescription of work stoppage, even with normal laryngeal exam. 3) The third had lost her singing voicing ability during a performance in a national festival of songs and had to cancel the followings events. Even if all of them were waiting for a "miracle pill" they recorded their training session and left this single phoniatrician appointment with their restored voicing ability.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Faure
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001044:Aphonia / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009819:Office Visits; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods; D013070:Speech Therapy / Q000379:methods; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome