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LMT was conducted before and after the questionnaire, in order to note its effects. Next, a vocal assessment of each patient elongating the /a/ vowel was conducted, which analyzed each patient’s vocal quality. The next test of the study was an auditory-perceptual analysis of each patient’s voice by three speech language pathologists. Specifically, they analyzed each patient’s vocal quality, roughness, breathiness, tension, and instability. Finally, LMT was conducted for twenty minutes after the various speech tests. After the LMT session, all of the speech tests were reconnected to compare the