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Offering an expert and comprehensive view of voice disorders in children, this text integrates basic science, evaluation, and treatment. Discussion of the pediatric larynx and voice provides essential information on the development of the larynx and voice production. The evaluation of children with a vocal disorder is considered from several perspectives, including emerging technology, speech pathology, laryngeal electromyography, quality of life instruments, and congenital anomalies. The coverage of treatment approaches is similarly wide-angled, taking into account speech therapy, child singers, a variety of vocal pathologies, and different medical interventions. Pediatric Voice Disorders is the authoritative source on its subject.

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Primary Subject: Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery / Laryngology
Secondary Subject: Speech and Language Pathology / Voice and Voice Therapy
Secondary Subject: Pediatrics
Audience Level: Professional

• Introduction: The Pediatric Larynx and Voice: Anatomy, Development, and Emerging Developments
  Robert T. Sataloff

1. Developmental, Gross, and Histologic Anatomy of the Larynx
   Mark E. Boseley and Christopher J. Hartnick
2. Emerging Science Regarding the Human Vocal Fold
   Susan L. Thibeault
3. Science of Voice Production from Infancy through Adolescence
   Joseph E. Kerschner and Albert L. Merati
4. New technologies: High Speed Video, Videokymography, Optical Coherence, Tomography, and 3D Holography
   Ramon A. Franco, Jr., Jennifer G. Andrus, and Robert T. Sataloff
5. Evaluation of the Child with a Vocal Disorder
   Paolo Campisi
6. Pediatric Laryngology: The Office and Operating Room Set-Up
   Mark E. Boseley and Christopher J. Hartnick
7. The Speech Pathologist’s Role in the Evaluation of the Child with a Voice Disorder
   Shirley Gherson and Barbara M. Wilson Arboleda
8. Laryngeal Electromography in Pediatric Patients
   Al Hillel
9. Voice Quality of Life Instruments
   Mark E. Boseley and Christopher J. Hartnick
10. Laryngopharyngeal Reflux and the Voice
    Stephen C. Hardy
11. The Role of the Pediatric Pulmonologist
    Kenan E. Haver
12. Voice Therapy for the Child with a Vocal Disorder
    Jennifer Allegro
13. Working with the Pediatric Singer: A Holistic Approach
    Robert Edwin
14. Benign Lesions of the Pediatric Vocal Folds: Nodules, Webs, and Cysts
    J. Scott McMurray
15. Managing Juvenile Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis and Care of the Voice
    Matthew B. Patterson and Seth M. Pransky
16. Pediatric Unilateral Vocal Fold Immobility
    J. Andrew Sipp and Christopher J. Hartnick
17. Pediatric Airway Reconstruction and the Voice
    Karen B. Zur
18. Functional and Spasmodic Dysphonias In Children
    Marshall E. Smith, Nelson Roy, and Cara Sauder
19. Paradoxical Vocal Fold Motion
    Venu Divi, Mary J. Hawkshaw, and Robert T. Sataloff
20. Psychiatric and Psychologial Interventions for Pediatric Voice Disorders
    Abigail L. Donovan and Bruce J. Masek

• Appendix: Pediatric Laryngeal Electromyography Supplement
  Andrew R. Scott and Christopher J. Hartnick

About The Authors

Christopher Hartnick, M.D.

Dr. Hartnick is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and has clinical appointments at the Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, MA and the Department of Otolaryngology Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA, where he is also Co-Director of the, Pediatric Airway, Voice, and Swallowing Center.

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Mark Boseley, M.D.

Lieutenant Colonel Boseley is Associate Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Washington D.C., Assistant Chief of Otolaryngology/Research Director at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, WA, and has a clinical appointment at the Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle, WA.

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