Your Voice Matters: A look at how voice disorders can affect the people we love

It's one of our abilities we rarely think about, until it doesn’t work.

Take a second to think about all the things your voice can do. We use it to express emotion, to sing, to communicate. It is part of our identity, and a functioning voice is critical for quality of life.

Now, imagine if you lost it. Permanently.

That's what happened to Matt Selker. And no, he didn't lose it from smoking.