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Dr. LeBorgne is the voice pathologist, singing voice specialist, and director of the Blaine Block Institute for Voice Analysis and Rehabilitation (Dayton, OH), and The Professional Voice Center of Greater Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH). Additionally, she holds adjunct professor positions at Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music as a Voice Consultant and in the College of Allied Health. Dr. LeBorgne holds a B.F.A. in Musical Theater from Shenandoah Conservatory and both her masters and doctoral degrees from the University of Cincinnati in Communication Sciences and Disorders with a specialty in voice disorders. Her research has focused primarily on the area of the professional singing voice (specifically the Broadway Belt Voice). Original peer-reviewed research has been published in the Journal of Voice, and she is a contributing author to the book Voice Therapy: Clinical Studies, providing a case study on "Vocal Intervention with the Touring Broadway Actor". She has authored two training DVD’s entitled LARYNGEAL VIDE0STROBOSCOPIC IMAGES: Normal and Pathologic Samples and Rating Laryngeal Videostroboscopy and CAPEV: Normal and Pathologic Samples distributed by Plural Publishing. In addition, an article entitled "The Young Singer: Consideration for Vocal Training in Children through Adolescence" was published in the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s (ASHA)Perspectives on Voice and Voice Disorders.
Dr. LeBorgne actively presents nationally and internationally on the professional performing voice. Some of her presentations have included the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Conventions in San Francisco, New Orleans, and Chicago; The Voice Foundation in Philadelphia; and SpeechPathology.com. Dr. LeBorgne has provided workshops and masterclasses on vocal health and belting at Cincinnati Conservatory, Shenandoah Conservatory, The West Side Vocal Academy, Ohio Music Education Association, Penn State University, SUNY Cortland, Syracuse University, regional NATS Chapters, and a poster presentation at the First International Conference on the Physiology and Acoustics of the Singing Voice (Groningen, Netherlands). She is Level III trained in Somatic Voicework™ (SVT) and has been a teacher at the Contemporary Commercial Music Vocal Pedagogy Workshop at Shenandoah University for seven years.
As a voice pathologist and singing voice specialist, her clinical work includes providing voice evaluations and therapy for singers and actors locally (Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati Broadway Series, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Dayton Opera, Dayton Broadway Series, Wright State University, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music) and nationally (Broadway artists, Television, National Broadway Tours, Opera Companies throughout the USA). In addition to her duties as a voice pathologist, Dr. LeBorgne continues to maintain an active professional performing career.




