Areas of Specialty

Ginger’s professional passions center on disorders occurring in the throat, and she has significant depth of continuing education and experience in the evaluation and treatment of these:

• Voice disorders/dysphonia/hoarseness/vocal fatigue in adults and children associated with vocal fold lesions, vocal fold weakness, and the aging voice. Ginger has special training and experience with LBGTQ individuals seeking a changed voice to express their gender preference. And, since the speaking voice and singing voice are from the same instrument, Ginger is happy to work with singers with voice complaints. When working with voice changes due to Parkinson’s, her preferred approach is SPEAK OUT!® followed by the group maintenance program The LOUD Crowd®.
• Swallow disorders/dysphagia in adults associated with: neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s and stroke affect the treatment of head and neck cancer, including surgery and radiation therapy.
• Chronic cough and shortness of breath associated with laryngeal hypersensitivity, vocal cord dysfunction, paradoxical vocal fold motion, and exercise-induced laryngeal obstruction. 

Thanks to her many years working in medical settings, Ginger highly values collaboration with physicians. She will seek the best possible overall understanding of your area of concern .to plan your treatment program appropriately.