The CVT Voice Rehabilitation certification is only offered by CVI.

Participation is primarily online through zoom sessions. The first seminar will be in real life at the institute in Copenhagen at:

CVI Copenhagen
Kompagnistræde 32 A • 1208 Copenhagen K • Denmark • DK-1208

Mail: frontoffice@shout.dk
Phone: +45 33 32 77 24
Fax: + 45 33 32 77 25

The course fee is DKK 61.225 (€ 8205), enrolment is financially binding.

A deposit of 25 % of the full course fee is to be paid within 2 weeks after receiving the invoice. The deposit secures your place on the course. It is not refundable if you choose to withdraw from the course. You are also more than welcome to pay the whole tuition fee when receiving the invoice and then get a discount. The instalment options are only meant as a help. Please read our standard terms.

You can make an instalment plan when the deposit of 25% is paid:
There are 3 different payment options to choose between (A, B & C);

A: Pay the remaining 75% fee at latest 2 weeks before course start and receive a 2000 KR / €270 discount.

B: Pay the remaining 75% tuition fee in 3 instalments with the 1st instalment 1/9, 2nd instalment 1/1, and the 3rd instalment 1/4.

C: Pay the remaining 75% tuition fee in monthly instalments, starting 1/9. Ending ¼.

The course is for Speech and Language Therapists/Pathologists, medical professionals, or individuals who have equivalent education or professional experience from clinical contexts. Participants are expected to have prior knowledge of the following topics either from prior education, experience, or from reading leading up to the course (materials for the topics can be provided by CVI if one or more areas need refreshing):

• Phonatory anatomy and physiology (including respiratory, laryngeal, and resonator subsystems)
• Vocal pathology and typical treatments (including typical surgical interventions performed by ENT)
• Voice assessment protocols (VHI, SVHI, RSI, GRBAS, CAPE-V, MPT, VTDS)
• Clinical equipment (including endo/stroboscopy, high-speed endoscopy, kymography, flexible/rigid scopes, etc.)
• Medications and clinical conditions and their impact the voice
• Reflux; symptoms, indications, and management
• Vocal hygiene
• Semi-occluded vocal tract exercises (SOVT) science and practice
• Electroglottography (EGG) (incl. the measures, the device, the use of, and how to interpret results)
• The life cycle of the voice (including childhood, puberty, menopause, and post-menopause)

You will study with up to 12-14 international professionals in a group.

The teachers are researchers and Authorised CVT Teachers with a specialisation in CVT Voice Rehabilitation. Each teacher will teach their specialist subject. Only highly qualified and experienced teachers of the highest professional standard will teach in the course.

The certification in CVT Voice Rehabilitation counts as 20 ECTS-point pr. semester or 40 ECTS points for the full course.

Working hours per semester

Attending classes at CVI: 3 seminars x 7 hours x 3 days = 63 hour
Teaching practice = 110 hours
Homework studying = 15 hours per seminar = 360 hours
Total hours of study: 533 hours

Please note that your specific institute of education must approve these points.
ECTS coordinator: Susanne Meyer, susanne@shout.dk, +45 3332 7724

The course language is English.

This mean that you should be able to both understand and communicate in English, as well as have the ability to receive teaching in a professional language.

If not complying with the above mentioned, we recommend:

• An intensive English course before starting your education.
• The possibility to bring along an interpreter for the entire course.

The CVT Voice Rehabilitation course for Speech and Language Therapists/pathologists is a specialisation course for clinical professionals wanting to further their knowledge in the use of CVT techniques in work with patients, speech, and voice rehabilitation.

The CVT Voice Rehabilitation extends an SLT/SLPs already extensive knowledge of voice function and rehabilitation with additional tools and exercises and a nuanced conceptual framework and terminology that address not only good vocal function, but also specifically the nuances of all the sounds the human voice can make.

The CVT Voice Rehabilitation education specifically provides training for speech using supraglottic sound sources in patients who have had extensive surgery or who suffer from vocal fold damage hindering normal vocal fold function. This specialised training module teaches different techniques for distinct types of supraglottic sounds that can form the basis of speech without the need for an electrolarynx or other types of technical devices that sound more natural as they are structures situated within the larynx and thus can use the resonance properties of the rest of the vocal tract. These techniques are based on extensive research, clinical practice, and pedagogical insight and can be used to substitute the vocal fold sound source or to compensate and aid vocal fold oscillations following scarring, nerve damage or other vocal fold damages.

The course provides additional tools and techniques for rehabilitation of functional as well as organic and neurogenic pathologies. The course provides scientific and practical insights into for instance:

• Nuanced framework to describe in great detailthe different types of sounds and parameters that can be present in a voice, including e.g.
  • Techniques and theory for full and non-metallic speech sounds
  • Techniques and theory for full and reduced-density speech sounds
  • Techniques for advanced variations in timbre, including changes in degree of density (vocal weight), amount of metal, character, and colouring
• Supraglottic speech, including theory and practice for compensatory, substitutional and supplementary functions for 5 distinct phenotypes
• Techniques and theory for the specialised needs of professional voice users
• Techniques, theory, and pedagogical approaches for gender affirmative care

The programme helps the clinician to further their skills to work with professional voice users, such as singing artists, professional speakers, actors, voice-over artists, and many more – both functionally and in relation to pre- and post-operatively addressing their highly specialised needs.

Topics covered during the course:

• CVT Speech Assessment: an introduction to the technical components of sound perception, including auditory perceptual analysis and anchors.
• Support: the scientific and practical study of the anatomical and physiological reality of support as it relates to controlling airflow and air pressures in the voice.
• Twang: the scientific and practical study of epilaryngeal narrowing and its benefits for increased vocal efficiency, loudness, and vocal fold health.
• Bring your own casesto receive clinical sparing and input and explore clinical challenges and to inspire each other to better solutions and tricks.
• CVT Research and Scientific papers to understand the scientific underpinnings of CVT Voice Rehabilitation Interventions and expected outcomes in specific patient populations and to expose participants to the most recent scientific discoveries related to CVT and voice principles that may aid their understanding of CVT Voice Rehabilitation interventions.
• Supraglottic sound sources in rehabilitation: An extensive scientific and practical introduction to the theory and practice of using supraglottic sound sources for speech. This includes a taxonomy differentiating vibrational strategies, levels of control, number of vibrating sources, and supraglottic phenotypes in pathological and healthy voice.
• Motivation: Introduction to motivational theories and the practice of ensuring patient adherence and compliance
• Learning types: the use of learning type theory in teaching voice, including technical and pedagogical tools for auditory, visual, kinaesthetic, logical, and imaginative ways of presenting information.
• Scanning & decoding:A specific approach to identifying issues in a patient’s voice and communicating
• Rehabilitation of Professional voice users: thorough investigation of the specific needs of professional voice users, including touring artists, preparation for studio work, rehabilitation pre- and post-surgery for benign vocal fold lesions and other types of voice pathologies, and much more.
• Gender-affirmative care: providing a terminology and practical toolbox for working with patients seeking help prior to or through transitioning.

CVT for speech and rehabilitation

The course will provide participants with an understanding of how the CVT Vocal Modes, sound colour, and vocal effects present in healthy speech and in unhealthy speech and how to identify and solve problems in the voice. The course also expands on participants’ current knowledge by demonstrating exercises for support, twang, the vocal modes, and how to aid patients to build a healthy and dynamic vocal function. The course provides endoscopic examples of the CVT modes in speech along with the most current scientific publications on CVT speech techniques.

Practical: Speech rehabilitation under supervision

All participants will learn how to deliver voice rehabilitation using CVT tools under supervision by experienced teachers in every seminar. During practical sessions, participants will get the chance to try out the techniques and assessments from the course curriculum. Several types of practical sessions are part of the course content, focusing on different pathologies, rehabilitation techniques, assessment protocols, and/or patient symptoms.

Treatment supervision: Providing treatment under supervision with various practical perspectives to other course participants and patients presenting with a variety of different pathologies such as:

• Fast troubleshooting
• Assessment protocols
• Specific diagnosis protocols (Neuro rehabilitation, Muscle Tension Dysphonia, emergency aid etc.)
• Bring your own cases to receive clinical sparing and input and explore clinical challenges and to inspire each other to better solutions and tricks.
• And much more.

Pedagogical: Structuring patient treatment

The course provides sound pedagogical reflections on how to structure a single voice rehabilitation session, how to structure a sequence of patient sessions, and how to best organise voice rehabilitation using CVT tools and pedagogics. Reflexive sessions, sparring on own cases and concrete sessions during the seminars, and an extensive troubleshooting manual are all part of ensuring that certification in CVT voice Rehabilitation helps provide the best voice care.

• Troubleshooting manual for specific voice pathologies
• Motivational theory and practice
• Learning types
• Scanning and Decoding
• How to structure a CVT voice rehabilitation session
• How to structure CVT Rehabilitation treatment plan and progression
• And much more

Practising and preparation between seminars

Practising between seminars

It is expected that the participants will practise speech therapy between seminars.

Preparations for seminars

It is expected that the participants will read scientific articles as well as other written materials to prepare for seminars.

Examinations

Exams:

The course involves 2 exams:

Written status 1 on CVT Interventions
Oral status 2 on the scientific background of specific CVT intervention methods.

Practical information

Study groups

All participants are encouraged to form groups for the duration of the course. Working in study groups will help all participants in practising and developing.

Methods

Each participant will, from the beginning of the course, work both as a treater and as a supervisor in order to become confident in both roles while working in the group. Instruction during the course will be a combination of theory and training treatment skills under supervision. There will be individual as well as group exercises. The work with the group will be both process and result related, and theory will relate to the techniques and exercises undergone with the group.

Lectures, talks, and debates

The working methods will include study and lectures on theory, as well as practical testing of theory. Moreover, there will be talks and debates to investigate and debate terminology that are frequently encountered. The course will be a common platform to exchange and discuss treatment difficulties, critique of techniques, including joint questions and answer sessions.

Tests

The organisation of the course will include various types of tests, including written and oral exams, self-assessments, and practical skill tests to highlight the participant’s awareness of his or her treatment skills.

Supervision of treatment

Participants will treat test patients “guinea pigs” in the presence of the group and receive supervision during class. The participants will teach each other, in the presence of the group.

Auditory analysis

The course structure includes auditory analysis of live and recorded examples. The auditory assessments will be examined under supervision of both live and recorded together with group.

Certification in CVT Voice Rehabilitation

Upon successfully completing the CVT Voice Rehabilitation exams, the participants will receive a certification in CVT Voice Rehabilitation as an additional specialisation.

Course Dates

The course consists of 6 3-day seminars spread out over 12 months. The teaching takes place Friday to Sunday from 10.00 – 17.00 with a lunch break between 13.00 – 14.00

The course is primarily online with the first seminar happening at the institute in Copenhagen.

February 28^th to March 2^nd 2025 (in real life in Copenhagen)
April 4^th to 6^th 2025 (online)
May 23^rd to 25^th 2025 (online)
August 22^nd to 24^th 2025 (online)
October 3^rd to 5^th 2025 (online)
November 14^th to 16^th 2025 (optional in real life or online)

Sign up and more info

To sign up for the course, please fill in the sign-up form at the top of the page.
For more information about the course, please contact Michelle Sanders at info@shout.dk

Info about the sign up procedure

If you wish to sign up, we will ask you to complete an online application form. The form will ask you to enter information about your education, professional history, etc.

Our admission team will soon contact you to let you know if you are accepted into the course. You can also contact us at info@shout.dk for any questions regarding the course.

Sign-up on the website is not financially binding. Your enrolment is only confirmed via email by our enrolment office. The admission board will initially send you an acceptance letter where you will finally confirm your acceptance of enrolment.

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