Prof. Dr. Benjamin Barsties von Latoszek

Prof. Dr. rer. med. Benjamin Barsties v. Latoszek is a speech therapist and medical scientist for the department of voice. At the SRH University of Applied Sciences for Health in Düsseldorf & Bonn, he is a professor in the Department of Speech and Language Pathology, focus on voice, since May 2019.

He studied at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences in Heerlen (NED) and graduated in 2011 with a Bachelor of Health degree in Speech Therapy. He completed his premaster studies in Clinical Language, Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of Utrecht (NED) in 2013. In 2017, he completed his PhD studies at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Antwerp (BEL) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Marc De Bodt, Prof. Dr. Youri Maryn and Prof. Dr. Ellen Gerrits.

Prof. Dr. habil. rer. med. Benjamin Barsties v. Latoszek graduated in Didactics in Higher Professional Education from the University of Utrecht, Centre for Education and Learning: Education & Training in 2013. Teaching positions in voice followed e.g. at HU University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht (NED), HAN University of Applied Sciences in Nijmegen (NED) Hochschule Fresenius in Hamburg and LMU in Munich.

His main areas of expertise are diagnostics, therapy and prevention of voice disorders. He is active on these topics with lectures and congresses, international and national publications and a network of national and international scientists. He also gives seminars, conducts clinical activities and offers scientific expertise as a consultant as well as working as a reviewer and guest editor for professional journals and is on the advisory board of the logopedic journal Sprache-Stimme-Gehör published by Thieme Verlag.

Research interests:

• Relationships of internal factors on the measurability of the voice (e.g. height, weight and fat content)
• Development of new therapy methods for the treatment of voice disorders e.g. Novafon Local Vibration Voice Therapy
• Objective measurement of the breathiness of the voice with the new measurement parameter Acoustic Breathiness Index and the objective measurement of the roughness of the voice
• Co-development of the Acoustic Voice Quality Index
• Cross-linguality of standardized questionnaires such as the Voice Handicap Index adapted to the singing voice and the Vocal Fatigue Index
• Criterion elicitation and statistical applicability for the reliability of auditory-perceptual assessment of voice quality