Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: Today we honour a man who, more than anyhodv else, has ad vanced logopedics and phoniatrics as a medical speech and voice pathologist.\s early as 1932 in Vienna, as pupil of Froeschels, I lie old m aster of speech and voice science, Weiss, due to his significant critical report on larvngo-strohoscopy, stood out.Already at that lime, he recognized that immobility of a vocal cord constitutes an optical illusion, because of the fact that this vocal cord swings only in a different frequency.Weiss defended his findings in many dis cussions and writings.Vt ith regard to the unreliability of mechanical stroboscopes, he pointed out earlv the significant development of the lirsl electro-stroboscopes (Polak-Hudin, 1932 and Kallen.1936).The
Source: Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica
DOI: 10.1159/000263401
Language: German
Topic: Voice and Speech Disorders
Subfield: Speech and Hearing
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2593087396