User:Wicklund

I am Karen Wicklund, DM, MHS CCC-SLP, SVS, a Chicago voice teacher, speech-language pathologist, singing voice specialist (SVS), professor and author specializing in voice training and the rehabilitation of the injured singing and speaking voice at the Chicago Center for Professional Voice. My textbook Singing Voice Rehabilitation: A Guide for the Voice Teacher and Speech-Language Pathologist was published in 2009 by DelMar Cengage Press. I have sung roles with the San Francisco, Santa Fe, Lake George, Omaha and other America companies, and have been soloist in Chicago and Minneapolis Orchestra Halls under conductors David Willcocks, Semyon Bychkov, John DeMain and others. I have also sung in St. Petersburg, Russia, and have made presentations on vocal wellness and voice team care in New Zealand and many other locations for NATS, ASHA, and Voice Foundation organizations. I am currently an adjunct faculty member of the communication disorders faculty of Governors State University and have been a full-time voice faculty professor at Western Michigan University since 1997, but retiring in December of 2011 to devote more time to my private practice in Chicago. I have also served as full-time voice faculty of University of Nebraska at Omaha, Washington State University, and as a lecturer at Northwestern University, and adjunct at Roosevelt University. My doctorate is from Northwestern University in Voice Performance; Masters in Voice Performance from University of Michigan; BA in Music Education (Voice and French Horn) from St. Olaf College; second masters in Communication Disorders from Governors State University. I am also a regular presenter of my Healthy Belting for Musical Theater Singers techniques at the VanderCook College of Music and other universities. In addition, I offer a certificate program for singing voice specialist training for highly qualified voice teachers who wish to learn to work singers with voice disorders. My certificate program is the first of its kind and includes both coursework and a practicum sequence, enabling the singing teacher to receive observations and hands-on, supervised experience working with singers with vocal injuries.