Adrienne HancockGeorge Washington University | GW · Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences
Adrienne Hancock
PhD, CCC-SLP
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August 2005 - present
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Publications (44)
Purpose
Gender dysphoria is commonly conceptualized as a mental disorder in gender-diverse people who do not identify with the gender assigned to them at birth. Direct support for well-being tends to be delegated to the field of mental health (MH), whereas speech-language pathology (SLP) practice is charged with modifying gender-diverse people's vo...
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Motivated by practice and feedback principles of motor learning, a hybrid clinic-home protocol for voice feminization was developed to minimize the role of SLPs to 1 of supervision and professional guidance and to maximize learning during independent practice apart from intervention sessions. The purpose was to explore the effectiveness and...
Purpose
The purposes of this study are to gather and analyze perspectives of people from racial and gender minority groups in order to identify barriers to voice and communication services for these populations.
Method
In focus groups facilitated by community members, 11 people in racial and gender minority groups discussed their gender-related go...
Traditionally, it is seen as the role of mental health professionals to directly support wellbeing in gender diverse people while voice and communication specialists focus on the development gender congruent vocal and communication skills in the assumption that these transformations will lead to a decrease of gender dysphoria and an increase in wel...
Purpose: The purpose of this conceptual study was to develop a transdisciplinary theoretical approach to clinical practice in the area of voice that is informed by contemporary clinical and social sciences theories of voice production.
Method: We used theoretical sampling to survey the clinical voice literature for different conceptualisations of f...
Purpose: The purpose of this conceptual study was to develop a transdisciplinary theoretical approach to clinical practice in the area of voice that is informed by contemporary clinical and social sciences theories of voice production.
Method: We used theoretical sampling to survey the clinical voice literature for different conceptualisations of f...
Objectives:
The purpose of this study was to explore the factors and practices that have acted as facilitators or barriers to voice function in gender diverse people assigned female at birth (GD peopleAFAB) from a participant-centered perspective and to inform the role of speech-language pathologists in supporting GD peopleAFAB with developing and...
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The purpose of this study was to prospectively examine changes in gender-related voice domain of pitch measured by fundamental frequency, function-related domains of vocal quality, range, and habitual pitch level and the self-perceptions of transmasculine people during their first year of testosterone treatment.
Method:
Seven trans men...
Inclusion of sex-atypical voices in speech perception protocols can reveal variations in listener perception and is particularly applicable in developing guidelines for transgender speech treatment. Ninety-three listeners, divided into four groups based on sex and sexual orientation, provided auditory-perceptual measures of sex and gender display f...
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Virtual reality environments (VREs) allow for immersion in speaking environments that mimic real-life interactions while maintaining researcher control. VREs have been used successfully to engender arousal in other disorders. The purpose of this study was to investigate the utility of virtual reality environments to examine physiological...
There is sparse prospective data on the effects of testosterone therapy on the voices of transgender men (also referred to as trans men or female-to-male transsexuals). Our aim was to investigate the timing and degree of voice deepening over 12 months among an ethnically diverse sample of transgender men. This was a prospective 12-month study at an...
Purpose:
The factors and correlates of voice-related quality of life (vQOL) in American transgender women (ie, male-to-female) were examined using two questionnaires and were reviewed in the context of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) model. This information will assist clinicians to be culturally and c...
Recent research presents a picture of diminishing gender differences in language. Two experiments examined whether language use can predict perceptions of gender and femininity; one included male and female speakers telling a personal narrative, the other also included male-to-female transgender speakers and analyzed an oral picture description. In...
Recent research indicates that our professions could improve in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) cultural competency. As indicated by Turner, Wilson, and Shirah's (2006) model of cultural competency, one can begin by increasing knowledge of transgender (TG) culture and improving sensitivity and attitudes foundational to serving these...
The cultures and service needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) minority groups are relevant to speech-language pathologists (SLPs). In particular, transgender individuals seeking communication services from SLPs in order to improve quality of life require culturally and clinically competent clinicians. Knowledge and attitu...
Virtual Reality Environments (VREs) are computer-generated, three-dimensional worlds that allow users to experience situations similar to those encountered in the real world. The purpose of this study was to investigate VREs for potential use in assessing and treating persons who stutter (PWS) by determining the extent to which PWS's affective, beh...
Forty participants (20 male) had 3-minute conversations with trained male and female communication partners in a repeated-measures, within-subject design. Eighty 3-minute conversations were transcribed and coded for dependent clauses, fillers, tag questions, intensive adverbs, negations, hedges, personal pronouns, self-references, justifiers, and i...
Background
Known influences of sex hormones on the voice would suggest pregnancy hormones could have an effect, yet studies using acoustic measures have not indicated changes. Additionally, no examination of the voice before the third trimester has been reported. Effect of pregnancy on the voice is relatively unexplored yet could be quite relevant...
Intonation is commonly addressed in voice and communication feminization therapy, yet empirical evidence of gender differences for intonation is scarce and rarely do studies examine how it relates to gender perception of transgender speakers. This study examined intonation of 12 males, 12 females, six female-to-male, and 14 male-to-female transgend...
Background:
People transitioning from male to female (MTF) gender seek speech-language pathology services when they feel their voice is betraying their genuine self or perhaps is the last obstacle to representing their authentic gender. Speaking fundamental frequency (pitch) and resonance are most often targets in treatment because the combination...
Measures of language production (e.g., informativeness, cohesion) could further our understanding of the cognitive-linguistic abilities of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and guide treatment focused on improving the overall communication ability. The current study measured correct information units (CIUs), total words, cohesion markers, cont...
Voice therapy, especially during male-to-female transition, typically targets acoustic measures of voice. Self-perception of femininity may be a valuable measure to incorporate into clinical protocols and empirical investigations of treatment efficacy. Speech samples of 20 male-to-female transgender and 10 cisgender speakers were rated by speakers...
Background: Social validity is an important yet under-examined aspect of treatment efficacy that determines how the effects of treatment are perceived by people other than the clinician/researcher. This is particularly true of treatments to improve the speech of adults with acquired neurogenic disorders.Aims: The purposes of this investigation were...
Acoustic and aerodynamic data are needed to describe how the vocal mechanism of a transgender person operates to achieve desired gender perception. Early evidence?based practice for transgender voice therapy was limited to changing vocal pitch?at first aiming for the normative values of the desired gender and more recently aiming for more feasible...
Outcomes of script training for individuals with apraxia of speech (AOS) and mild anomic aphasia were investigated. Script training is a functional treatment that has been successful for individuals with aphasia but has not been applied to individuals with AOS. Principles of motor learning were incorporated into training to promote long-term retent...
The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specific "fair use" conditions is that the photocopy o...
Despite the plethora of research documenting that the voice and quality of life (QoL) are related, the exact nature of this relationship is vague. Studies have not addressed people who consider their voice to influence their life and identity, but would not be considered to have a voice "disorder" (e.g., transgender individuals). Individuals seekin...
Purpose: This study investigated the construct , criterion, and social validity of the Proficiency in Oral English Communication Screening (POEC-S; Sikorski, 2005b), which is an assessment that is used with ac-cented English speakers. Validity of this assessment has not previously been established despite its frequent use in clinical practice. Meth...
Professional competencies independent of discipline-specific knowledge and skills are addressed by most allied health professions. This paper presents the process of developing and testing a Graduate Student Development Profile (GSDP) in rubric format. In addition to documenting behaviors, a rubric system provides formative feedback helpful to stud...
Background: This study examined the effectiveness of a modified version of the Motor Learning Guided (MLG) approach, a treatment protocol to establish functional speech that incorporates principles of motor learning: blocked and random practice schedules, delayed and summary knowledge of response (KR) feedback, and specificity of training. Methods:...
In light of infamous levels of fear associated with public speaking, businesses are training staff in communication effectiveness and universities are requiring courses in public speaking. A variety of approaches to individual training are available, but few studies have assessed effectiveness of group instruction, as in academic curricula. The spe...
ABSTRACT: Purpose: Computerized measures of working memory offer advantages of precision, efficiency, and examiner control and are therefore reported more frequently. However, the influence of computer stimulus parameters is still unclear, primarily because they are not uniformly used or reported in published research.
Method: Twenty-four individ...
The purpose of the two studies described in this paper was to assess whether adults with dementia could assume an advice-giving role (Study 1) and a teacher role (Study 2) despite their cognitive impairments. So far, no research on adults with dementia has compared language production in a social conversation condition with that in an advice-giving...
Models for understanding effects of distraction on linguistic processing are few. We measured semantically related and unrelated visual and auditory ambient distraction on picture identification in non-neurologically damaged younger and older adults. Comparisons were made across conditions of quiet, white noise, visual, and auditory distraction for...
Projects
Projects (2)
We are working on a self-evaluation questionnaire and an approach to assessment for voice and communication professionals working with gender diverse people assigned female at birth (GD people AFAB). In the future there is the potential to expand the questionnaire and assessment approach for use with all people who are seeking support for their voice and communication function, the communication of their sense of sociocultural belonging and their communication-related wellbeing.
Beginning with focus groups and then a widely-distributed survey, we would like to explore how voice/communication services are viewed by trans minorities (race, class). After identifying and defining barriers properly, interventions will be designed to improve access to services for these individuals.
