Voice Treatment for the Male-to-Female Transgendered Client

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 201-208

  Geifer, Marylou Pausewang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Rehabilitation; Sex reassignment; Transgendered voice; Transsexual voice; Voice treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033462008     PISSN: 10580360     EISSN: 15589110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1058-0360.0803.201     Document Type: Article

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