Code
01N02719
Duration
01 January 2019 → 31 December 2024
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- Discourse studies
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Medical and health sciences
- Laryngology
- Laryngology
- Speech and language therapy
- Voice
- Laryngology
Keywords
Effectiveness
Voice therapy
Articulation therapy
Communication feminization therapy
Male-to-female transgender
transwomen
Project description
The purpose of this project is to investigate the short-term and longer-term impact of speech therapy for voice and resonance on (a) acoustic voice characteristics, (b) listener perceptions of femininity and gender identification and (c) self-perception and psychosocial functioning in male-to-female transgender persons (transwomen) using a randomized controlled study and cross-over design.