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MUSE 258
Dr. Ester
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Case Study
sister Jenny Miller. Jenny is 15 years old and she has Down Syndrome.
has a lot of really great potential but she also has some obvious
really great tone quality and good projection to her voice. Her voice
was not airy and was fairly full. She had little issues when it came to
phonating and she was very comfortable singing with me, which made
pitch. I believe this has to do largely with her disability but also partly
her hearing. Jennys right ear is not as good as her left ear and doctors
difficult for her to match pitch because her ears were hearing two
directly into her left ear and when I did that, she had a much easier
my falsetto, the easier it was for her to match pitch, because she never
breathing before she sang but she has never been taught the correct
way to take a low breath. This could have been affecting her
phonation, but there wasnt enough time for me to see if she could
learn how to breathe from the abdominal region rather than lifting with
the shoulders.
lays on the ground with something placed on her stomach. When she
goes to breathe I would tell her to lift the item on her stomach so that
she could learn where to take a proper breath. Another exercise that I
think could work for her is some basic level 1 tonal echoing so that she
pitch a little better. I think she could also benefit from some more aural
asked to close her eyes and identify where in the room a certain pitch
some of her struggles with sound distortion and could help instructors
lower register or chest voice where she has trouble phonating. Lastly, I
pattern is presented with the pitches smfrd and as it goes along, the
beginning consonant changes to try to help with more precise diction.
but this exercise could help her improve in her talking and singing.