If your job requires the use of your voice (and really whose job doesn’t?), you may not be able to perform at your peak ability with a hoarse voice. Nearly all of us use our voice in our daily routine: executives, teachers, speakers, sales men and women, shop foremen, nurses, lawyers, doctors. Taking care of your voice on and off the job and is very important so that your voice will be available to you at all times.
Vocal hoarseness occurs for a variety of reasons. In this video I give you 17 reasons with explanations of vocal abuse that may cause hoarseness or vocal fatigue (and they are preventable).
I talk about Speech, Language and Voice topics all year long. Let’s talk about something new: your hearing. After all, there are social, psychological and physical consequences of having a hearing loss at work and at home, including isolation, withdrawal, problems with concentration, embarrassment, shame, guilt, anger, depression and anxiety. I’d like to offer you some tips to preserve your hearing and tips for communicating!
At Christmas each year, our family spends a lot of time around the dining room table playing board games and cards. One of my children in particular has a hobby of collecting games, learning them and teaching them to us. I’ll call him my Game Player Extraordinaire. His name is Sam and to give you an example, he has 50+ games. I thought he might be a good person to ask for some game recommendations that promote language skills for my game review this year. These make wonderful gifts and promote communication skills as well. Here’s what he suggested:
We were rolling through the woods on our bikes when a large obstacle on the trail appeared around the bend. I had been experimenting with and practicing a new skill that I had learned (bunny hopping over logs) so when I came around that bend, I told my friends that I was going to jump it. A bunny hop is launching your bike into the air as if jumping off a ramp. The pedals on the bicycle “stick” to your feet as the bike becomes airborne. You can bunny hop over some pretty large obstacles by doing this correctly.
If your job requires the use of your voice (and really whose job doesn’t?), you may not be able to perform at your peak ability with a hoarse voice. Nearly all of us use our voice in our daily routine: executives, teachers, speakers, sales men and women, shop foremen, nurses, lawyers, doctors. Taking care of your voice on and off the job and is very important so that your voice will be available to you at all times. 
