{"id":15204,"date":"2026-09-25T11:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/?p=15204"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:14:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:14:28","slug":"verdolini-resonant-voice-therapy-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/resonance-therapy\/verdolini-resonant-voice-therapy-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Verdolini Resonant Voice Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Resonant voice therapy<\/a> (RVT) is an evidence-based treatment for vocal fold nodules and muscle tension dysphonia. It teaches patients to speak with easy phonation and a forward focus that moves the power of the voice away from the vocal folds.<\/p>\n<p>Clinicians start RVT with a basic training gesture. This typically includes repetitions of a vocal sigh at high and low pitches as well as voiced and voiceless sounds at word, phrase, and conversational levels.<\/p>\n<h2>It\u2019s affordable<\/h2>\n<p>The premise behind Lessac-Madsen <a href=\"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Resonant Voice Therapy<\/a> is that when the vocal folds are slightly adducted during phonation (neutral adduction with minimal force), inter-vocal impact during vibration is minimised and new injury to the vocal folds is avoided. Katherine Verdolini Abbott, known as \u201cKittie,\u201d has taught this specialized approach to voice clinicians since 1997 and continues to conduct research on the subject. Her Lessac-Madsen training seminars are dynamic and thought provoking. Kittie also offers private voice lessons in NYC.<\/p>\n<p> <iframe src=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rv9aJy1086g allowfullscreen=true width=541 frameBorder=0 height=302 style='margin:0px auto; display: block;'><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resonant voice therapy (RVT) is an evidence-based treatment for vocal fold nodules and muscle tension dysphonia. It teaches patients to speak with easy phonation and a forward focus that moves the power of the voice away from the vocal folds. Clinicians start RVT with a basic training gesture. This typically includes repetitions of a vocal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resonance-therapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15205,"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15204\/revisions\/15205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}