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On the contrary to what many people think, speech therapy can help almost anyone in every industry. The service is more than just correcting a stutter or a lisp. Even the best-spoken professionals seek help with their communications skills through speech therapy sessions.
Small changes in your communication skills can greatly impact your academic life, career, and social life. Students can learn how to build relationships, reduce misunderstandings, and nail interviews.
Speech therapy can help you develop social skills, especially if you struggle with a social communication disorder (SCD). SCD can affect your communication skills in many ways,
An SLP can help you create an individualized plan to overcome these challenges.
International students can also utilize speech therapy by using accent modification services. Although an accent can be apart of your identity and culture, major sound differences can make it difficult for listeners to understand what you are saying. SLP's can help you be heard for what you say and not how you say it.
Healthcare professionals are tasked with the essential duty of communicating with patients to help them in any way. Communication is an essential skill in the healthcare field, whether between you and your patients or you and your staff.
Your patients could be misunderstanding essential information about their health and aftercare instructions, and you may have team members counting on your reports in meetings. If your accent is holding you back from sounding clear and confident while speaking, accent modification may help you.
With the rise of online meetings and appointments, the risk of miscommunication is more evident now due to the pandemic. In online meetings, compared to in-person meetings, sound quality can be worsened. People can also have difficulties understanding you because they cannot gauge facial expressions and body language if your webcam is off. In this case, learning how to articulate and pronounce words properly is essential.
As a tech professional, communicating specific technical instructions to employees or co-workers may be an essential part of your job.
Speech therapy can help you in several scenarios, including meetings, presentations and public speaking. If you find that your co-workers or employees are having difficulty understanding your message, speech therapy can help. Many unique services help you to work out problems like stuttering, cluttering and articulation. Or you can work on developing skills like removing filler words, finding your right pace, or even using intonation.
Speech training can help you make a good impression and make your topic memorable, rather than being remembered for being confusing.
Are you looking for ways to enhance productivity and success? Work with your team to improve communication skills, enable confidence and invest in personal development.
Improve your team's communications skills by working with an SLP to identify goals and courses of action. By improving communication skills between employees, you can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of messages. Speech therapy includes accent modification and ways to improve on aspects related to mumbling, stuttering, voice control, articulation, and more.
Enable confidence in your team member and allow them to tackle meetings, interviews, collaborative projects and client-focused tasks. Speech therapy works with your employees to improve a person's speech sounds, stress patterns, and articulation to be understood.
Investing in your team ultimately results in investing in the success of your company. Speech training can be affordable with coverage plans included in your business or school and can make impactful differences for your employees.
No matter what you are studying or what industry you work in, communication is the key to success. Learn more about how speech therapy can help you, or book a free consultation with our speech-language pathologist!
