A speech-language pathologist and vocal coach shows you what actually injures voices, how to spot the warning signs early, and the two-minute reset you can teach on Monday.

Radina Veliova teaches from both sides of the door — vocal coach and speech-language pathologist — and this IVTOM conference session gives you the science plus the studio application. You'll learn vocal economy as a cost-benefit ratio, why phonation threshold pressure rises as folds stiffen, and what really causes most injuries (overuse without recovery, singing through illness, speaking-voice misuse — not bad technique). She runs a live straw-phonation experiment so you feel the change yourself, walks a green-yellow-red traffic-light model for triage, decodes jitter and shimmer, myth-busts vocal rest and warmups, and demonstrates a two-minute vocal reset. Plus: laryngeal massage, MTD, and exactly when to send a singer to a laryngologist.