Our Services

At the Grabscheid Voice and Swallowing Center of Mount Sinai, our highly skilled specialists offer state-of-the-art diagnostics and behavioral, medical, and surgical management options for the full range of conditions involving the voice, swallowing, and airway. Our interdisciplinary team includes speech language pathologists (and pediatric speech language pathologists), who are experts in voice, speech, singing, and swallowing therapy, as well as laryngologist who have additional training and experience in the diagnosis and medical and behavioral management of disorders of voice.  Additionally, we involve specialists in neurology, gastroenterology, pulmonology, radiology, and surgical pathology to provide comprehensive care. Working together with you, we draw on the newest therapies—employing minimally invasive procedures when necessary—to design a treatment plan that helps you achieve the best possible vocal health.

Diagnostic Testing, Speech Language Therapy, and Surgical Therapies

We offer our patients the following services:

Diagnostic Testing

  • Laryngeal endoscopy and stroboscopy
  • Auditory perceptual evaluation of voice
  • Acoustic and aerodynamic measures of voice
  • Laryngeal electromyography (EMG)
  • Transnasal esophagoscopy (TNE)
  • Clinical evaluation of swallowing
  • Static endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (SEES)
  • Flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES)
  • Modified barium swallow testing

Speech Language Therapy 

  • Resonant voice therapy
  • Transgender voice therapy
  • Straw phonation
  • Instruction on respiratory support for voice production
  • Cognitive Behavioral-like therapies for laryngeal hypersensitivity
  • Voice therapy for Parkinson’s Disease
  • Swallowing strengthening programs
  • Shaker exercises (dynamic and static)
  • Chin tuck against resistance
  • Mendelsohn maneuver
  • Masako maneuver
  • Expiratory muscle strength training (EMST)
  • Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES)

Surgical Therapies

  • Awake vocal fold injection for therapeutic and augmentation injections
  • Vocal fold microdissection
  • Laryngeal framework surgery and arytenoid adduction
  • Surgery for gender transition of voice
  • Transoral laser microsurgery for resection of laryngeal cancers
  • Laser resection of laryngeal papilloma
  • Awake KTP ablation vocal fold lesions
  • Botulinum toxin injection (Botox)
  • Endoscopic and open surgeries for laryngeal stenosis
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