General information about the voice and voice disorders:

www.voiceproblem.org is an extensive resource site run by the Watergate Voice Foundation which covers the spectrum of voice problems. The content represents consensus opinion of a number of physicians in the field. Full disclosure: Dr. Sulica is a contributor to this site.

www.voicedoctor.net is an informational website created by James Thomas, MD, a colleague in Portland, Oregon. The site is rich in information and images, and explains many voice problems and procedures in depth.

www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/takingcare.asp represents the informational portion of the website of the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, the agency in the National Institutes of Health that deals with voice disorders.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi is the portal to PubMed which is the search engine for the National Library of Medicine. It can be used to search the professional medical literature for journal articles and reports of research.

www.voiceacademy.org:8080/vaweb/voiceacademy.html is the website of the Voice Academy, a self-taught course in vocal health created for teachers, who are one of the largest groups of people with voice problems.

Organizations of health professionals that deal with voice:

www.entnet.org is the website of the American Academy of Otolaryngology & Head & Neck Surgery, the principal professional organization of ear, nose and throat doctors in the United States. It has a “Find a Doctor” feature as well as some patient information regarding relevant disorders.

www.asha.org/proserv/ is the website of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the principal professional group for speech pathologists as well as audiologists.

Information about specific disorders:

Spasmodic dysphonia

www.dysphonia.org/nsda is the website of the National Spasmodic Dysphonia Association.

www.dystonia-foundation.org/ is the website of the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation, which is the parent organization of the National Spasmodic Dysphonia Association. It deals with dystonia, the neurological disease of which spasmodic dysphonia is a type, in a more general way.

www.wemove.org/dys/ is the dystonia page of We Move, an informational site for movement disorders.

Larynx cancer

www.nci.nih.gov/cancerinfo/pdq/treatment/laryngeal/patient/ is the larynx cancer page of the National Cancer Institute. It reviews most aspects of diagnosis and treatment.

Papilloma

www.rrpwebsite.org/ is an extensive patient resource which contains a great deal of information about both established and investigational treatment, discussion groups and message boards.

www.rrpf.org/index.shtml is another patient resource with discussion groups and basic information.