The United Airways Clinic: roadmap of a patient-centred multidisciplinary approach to the complex airways patient: the Sydney model.

Severe asthma is a subset of difficult-to-treat asthma which requires a systematic and multidimensional approach including the need to manage multiple comorbidities that mimic asthma. Multidisciplinary care is becoming the standard for the assessment of such patients. Multidisciplinary team (MDT) clinics are virtually nonexistent in the private space.

Unpacking the black box of voice therapy: A clinical application and revision of the Motor Learning Classification Framework (MLCF).

Purpose: Voice therapy is a complex behavioural intervention. Understanding its components is integral for continued advancement of voice therapy research, translation of evidence into the clinical setting and improved client care. The Motor Learning Classification Framework (MLCF) offers an excellent opportunity for increasing such knowledge, specifically in relation to identifying variables that affect motor learning (ML), an important mechanism hypothesised to bring about voice change during voice therapy.

The behavioural treatment of muscle tension voice disorders: A systematic review.

Purpose: A systematic review of behavioural intervention for the treatment of adults with muscle tension voice disorders (MTVD).

Method: A search of 12 electronic databases and reference lists for studies published between the years 1990-2014 was conducted using the PRISMA guidelines. Inclusion and exclusion criteria included type of publication, participant characteristics, intervention, outcome measures and report of outcomes.

Voice outcomes after transoral laser microsurgery for early glottic cancer-considering signal type and smoothed cepstral peak prominence.

Objectives/hypotheses: This study proposed the use of signal typing and acoustic measures experimentally validated for aperiodic voices to investigate voice outcomes after transoral laser microsurgery (TLM) for early glottic carcinoma. It was of interest whether signal type and pitch-tracking indicators would reveal unreliable perturbation and noise measures. As an alternative, smoothed cepstral peak prominence (CPPS) was used for the first time in this population.

A multiprofessional children's feeding clinic.

A paediatric dietitian, occupational therapist and speech and language therapist describe how they jointly run a feeding clinic for infants and children with feeding difficulties. Conditions treated include cerebral palsy, autism, learned aversion following severe gastro-oesophageal reflux, and delayed oral development that affects feeding. The therapists' co-ordinated approach enables parents to receive clear guidance on feeding at one combined appointment, without the inconvenience of having to attend three separate appointments.