Journal for Educators, Teachers and Trainers

Abstract

The human voice is a means through which we can channel and express our ideas, feelings and opinions. However, many people present diverse problems when it comes time to emit and control it. In light of this problem, the experts of the voice have the duty to provide the most adjusted professional answer to each case. One of the most immediate supports is definitely the speech therapy, through which, with dedication, obstinacy and with the most sophisticated resources that have been developed, it is possible to make progress notably, as it has been demonstrated and as it is still demonstrated in numerous practical cases of the day-to-day. With the intention to discover what the introduction to the singing voice training and vocal technique involves in a group of adults with moderate intellectual disabilities, an experience of singing voice training carried out in 2012 in Down Compostela Foundation is presented in this work. The procedure (from the first sessions in the centre until the conclusion of the work); the design (from the theoretical contents to the detailed programming for the practice); the implementation (from the own practice to the changes arisen on the fly); and the evaluation and proposals of improvement of the most technical exercises of voice warming-up or warm-up exercises are explained