After Throat Infection My Voice Was Changed. I Am Having Puberphonia

Hi, I am Dr Sonia S V. I am an ENT Surgeon & Head & Neck Specialist.First of all we have to make sure there are no structural abnormalities in your vocal cords.An ENT Surgeon can determine this by examining your vocal cords by a procedure called a laryngoscopy.This can be done with a special endoscope or with laryngeal mirrors.This is a simle painless and quick examination which can be done in the ENT Doctor's consulting room itslef.If your vocal cords are normal by structure [ that is no vocal polyp etc] then you can be treated by speech therapy which has high success rates.

All the best
Dr Sonia Suprabha Venugopal
Consultant ENT Head & Neck Surgery,Bangalore
Website:http://drsoniasv.webs.com

Hi Raj kumar

I am agree with Dr.sonia's sugestion.Apart from this the knowledge which may help you are:

During puberty in males the mass and length of the vocal fold increase and the pitch decreases. Few of the people although having the appropriate vocal fold mass and length after the puberty, but they are not able to switch to the new low pitch voice (male like).Mostly its reason can be usually long time habits from childhood, speaking into a high pitch voice. In this case only thin edges of vocal cords vibrates and also the whole length of the vocal cord does not vibrate.

Puberphonia can be very easily treated by voice therapy (vocal exercises) given by speech language pathologist/speech therapist. Duration mostly can be 1-2 week sometime more and that also needs expertise in voice therapy of the therapist. For details please click on:"www.speechtherapyindia.in".

Who are the speech language pathologist /Speech therapist?
These are the professionals trained for the assessment and treatment of all kinds of communication disorders. They should have the following qualification:
B.Sc. (Hons )Speech and Hearing/B.Sc. Speech and Hearing/Bachelor in Audiology and speech language Pathology(BASLP)
M.Sc. Speech language pathology/M.Sc. speech and hearing/ MASLP
Certified by Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) to work in India
Although in India bachelor degree holders are also eligible to work as speech language pathologist/ speech therapist, but in developed countries like US minimum requirement is master degree. DHLS is diploma course in the field of speech and hearing and these professional are trained to work as speech therapist assistant/audiologist assistant. They are not speech therapist or audiologist and they can only work under the supervision of speech language pathologist/speech therapist/audiologist.

Regards
Sanjay kumar
Speech Language pathologist
An AIIMS Delhi and AIISH Mysore Alumnus
http://speechtherapyindia.in