International Conference on Occupational Voice Research

描述（由申请人提供）：德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校将举办职业声音国际会议。会议定于2007年10月12日至13日（星期五至星期六）举行。会议将以讲座、小组讨论和非正式对话的形式召集公共卫生官员、职业语音使用者及其雇主、治疗师、科学家、语言病理学家、医生和其他专家。会议记录将通过会议的网络直播和一个网站传播，该网站将提供摘要的文本版本、简报的流媒体视频、简报幻灯片、音频文件和其他相关网站的链接。所有与会者都将收到网站的CD版本。会议将由以下国际演讲者发表重要演讲：Ingo R. Titze博士；Nelson Roy博士，CCC-SLP；罗伯特·希尔曼博士；Anne-Maria Laukkanen博士；Philippe de Jonckere, m.d., Ph.D.和Maria S"dersten, Ph.D.每位主要演讲者也将主持会议的一个环节。其他18场演讲将由通过提交摘要选出的研究人员进行。征文主题包括：(1)教学语音用户；（二）表演语音使用者；(3)说服性语音用户；(4)业务语音用户；(5)紧急语音用户。除了报告正在进行的关于这些职业群体使用声音的研究外，正在征求以下方面的论文：(1)工作场所声音环境危害的影响及其缓解；(2)康复干预；(3)技术干预。会议组织者欢迎提交关于职业声音的杰出申请，这些申请可能不完全符合上述主题，但值得在国际会议上发表。许多职业都要求员工在很长一段时间内、在高振幅下、在情绪激动的情况下和/或在具有挑战性的环境中进行语音交流，这使员工面临语音障碍的潜在风险。据估计，职业性嗓音问题每年给经济造成的损失达数十亿美元。鉴于从事高危职业的人数众多，以及劳动力嗓音问题的经济成本，需要召开一次科学会议，将所有在劳动力中雇用、学习、照顾或协助嗓音专业人员的人聚集在一起。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Texas at San Antonio will host an International Conference on Occupational Voice. The meeting will be held Friday-Saturday, October 12-13, 2007. The conference will bring together public health officials, occupational voice users and their employers, therapists, scientists, speech-language pathologists, medical doctors and other specialists in a format of lectures, panel discussions and informal conversations. Conference proceedings will be disseminated through a live web cast of the conference and through a website which will feature text versions of abstracts, streaming videos of presentations, presentation slides, audio files and links to other related websites. All attendees will receive a CD version of the website. The conference will feature key addresses by the following international speakers: Ingo R. Titze, Ph.D.; Nelson Roy, Ph.D., CCC-SLP; Robert Hillman, Ph.D.; Anne-Maria Laukkanen, Ph.D.; Philippe de Jonckere, M.D., Ph.D, and Maria S"dersten, Ph.D. Each key speaker will also chair a session of the meeting. 18 other podium presentations will be given by investigators selected through a submission of abstracts. Topics advertised in the call for papers include: (1) the teaching voice user; (2) the performing voice user; (3) the persuasive voice user; (4) the service voice user; (5) the emergency voice user. In addition to reporting ongoing research on the voice use of these occupational groups, papers are being sought on: (1) the impact of vocal environmental hazards in the workplace and their mitigation; (2) habilitative interventions; (3) technological interventions. The conference organizers are open to the submission of outstanding applications on occupational voice which may not exactly fit the topics described above, but which merit presentation at an international meeting. Many occupations require employees to communicate vocally for a significant amount of time, at high amplitudes, in emotional situations and/or in challenging environmental settings, putting workers at potential risk for voice disorders. The costs of occupational voice problems to the economy have been estimated at several billion dollars annually. Given the large number of persons employed in at-risk occupations and the economic costs of workforce voice problems, a scientific meeting is needed to gather all those who employ, study, care for or assist voice professionals in the workforce.