Characteristics of a Treatment-seeking Population in a Private Practice Community Voice Clinic: An Epidemiologic Study.

Collectively, the demographic patterns reported in this study align with those from specialty voice clinics housed in academic medical centers and community voice clinics led by laryngologists and general otolaryngologists. Translating these findings to professional practice, the data support the notion that speech-language pathologists specializing as voice therapists who seek to establish private practice clinics should possess competencies in the knowledge and skills required to serve treatment-seeking populations with a wide variety of voice impairments.