Managing a classroom takes a lot, including a strong voice that can lift over the chatter of 30-some students. Enter WCUofPA professor lizurban_grillo whose research centers on helping teachers adjust their voices to avoid the common problem of strain.
last year, means the school has “high research activity.” To qualify, a school must have awarded at least 20 doctorates during an academic year and have accrued at least $5 million in research expenditures. West Chester, which recorded $6.4 million in research in 2020, is one of only two universities in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education to be classified as R2. West Chesterand, like other universities in the state system, is best known for its emphasis on teaching.
“We take research seriously here, but teaching is still our mission,” he said. “That’s the message we don’t want to get lost as part of this celebration.” She got her first NIH grant in 2015 and used it in part to develop a comprehensive voice-evaluation smartphone app, VoiceEvalU8, that allows teachers to record their voices across multiple days at different times. Speech pathologists then can listen to the recordings, which pick up “acoustic, perceptual, and aerodynamic” data, and diagnose problems.
Kate La Spina, 23, who teaches seventh and eighth grades, can attest to that. Sometimes her voice is so tired and strained at the end of the day that she can’t talk to anyone. And she’s in year one of her teaching career. Having to wear masks because of the pandemic also made voice projection more challenging, she said. That’s been on Grillo’s radar, too. The best voice to use through masks is “oral twang,” Grillo said. Simply put, there are different levels of voice, and oral twang requires the narrowing of parts in an upper level to preserve the so-called basement where the vocal folds vibrate.
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