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Kayla Orndorff\u2019s life has been filled with medicine and music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growing up with a physician father and a nurse mother, Orndorff was used to dinner table conversations about medicine and patient care \u2013 they fascinated her, she said. But everyone in her family also played an instrument \u2013 Kayla herself plays the piano and sings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSpeech therapy is a great combination of both of those disciplines,\u201d she said. \u201cI can use my knowledge of anatomy and physiology, as well as my knowledge of music, to help people with their voices.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Orndorff is a new speech-language pathologist at the Munroe-Meyer Institute whose area of expertise is voice therapy services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jessica Gormley, PhD, the interim director of the MMI Department of Speech-Language Pathology, said Orndorff is MMI\u2019s only current voice therapist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cKayla works more with people on producing sound and phonation at the level of the vocal folds,\u201d Dr. Gormley said. \u201cThere is a lot that can go wrong with that sound production, and Kayla has had specialized training to assist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Orndorff works with people who have voices disorders such as nodules, head and neck cancer after radiation or neurological conditions that affect the way the vocal muscles function. She often gets referrals from other providers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf patients are experiencing changes in their vocal quality or volume that are interfering with how they complete their activities of daily living, physicians can send then to me, and I can coach them through to build up that ability again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll usually start with vocal hygiene \u2013 staying hydrated, not coughing or clearing your throat too much, not yelling or shouting if you don\u2019t need to,\u201d Orndorff said. \u201cI also work on diaphragmatic breathing with people, which is a really common technique that takes the work of breathing away from the neck and shoulders and moves it down to the abdomen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But her \u201cbread-and-butter\u201d treatment, she said, is resonant voice therapy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cResonant voice therapy is all about how sound vibrates and resonates in the vocal tract,\u201d she said. \u201cThe goal is to reconfigure the tract so that it\u2019s as efficient as possible \u2013 kind of like the bell of a trumpet, where sound is being projected outward, as opposed to getting trapped somewhere in the vocal tract, getting absorbed into the tissue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from her professionally acquired skills, Orndorff also will draw from things she learned in her own vocal journey, as a music lover and lifelong\u00a0church performer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBecause I didn\u2019t have anyone guiding me vocally, I figured a lot out on my own,\u201d she said. \u201cThat experience made it easier for me to work with patients \u2013 I know what they feel like, because I struggled with many of these same things. And anytime I learned something new about the voice, I would take that and experiment with it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Gormley likens Orndorff\u2019s work with singers, performers and others \u2013 such as teachers or salespeople \u2013 who use their voice for a living to an athletic trainer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you are training your muscles, say weightlifting, sometimes those muscles need rest or therapy,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s the same with the muscles that you use to speak.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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