Adult Speech Therapy
Voice
A referral for voice therapy can be initiated by your ENT (Ear, Nose, & Throat Doctor), any healthcare professional, or simply by you! An ENT Doctor will help you determine the specific cause of your voice challenges. Voice disorders may be result of a variety of diagnoses, including damage to your vocal cords from vocal misuse, reflux, or illness. Professional singers & actors may also require voice therapy to maintain the health & function of their voice. TalkInc’s founder, Samantha Berardesca, is a Singing Voice Specialist with extensive background experience as a singer and vocal coach. This professional voice experience is used during voice therapy to help you optimize the tone, pitch, or quality of your voice (e.g., eliminate/reduce harsh, hoarse, or breathy voice). Voice therapy can help you rehabilitate your speaking and/or singing voice to give you the confidence you deserve in any situation – whether it’s professionally, socially, or medically.
HELP ME WITH…
- Nodules
- Polyps
- Cysts
- Muscle Tension Dysphonia
- Voice projection
- Singing Voice Rehabilitation
- Vocal fatigue
- Vocal cord paralysis
- Spasmodic dysphonia
- Puberphonia
- Aging Voice
- Voice quality or pitch modification
- Essential Voice Tremor
- Paradoxical vocal fold motion
- Functional Aphonia
- Sounding better &feeling more confident
Resonance
When we talk, air passes through our mouth and nose. A resonance disorder occurs when there is a change in the way that air flows during the production of speech. This will affect how you sound – either hypernasal (too much air through the nose) or hyponasal (not enough air through the nose). The most common causes include cleft palate and/or neurological disorders. Speech therapy can help you learn to use your tongue, lips and speech muscles correctly to improve your overall speech intelligibility and speaking confidence.
HELP ME…
- Improve my speech clarity
- Reduce hypernasality
- Reduce hyponasality
- Communicate with confidence
Speech
Speech is made up of individual sounds that we use to produce words, phrases, and sentences. The ability to produce every single sound we use in English will affect how well others can understand your speech. A speech-language pathologist can help you improve your speech clarity and speaking confidence with specific speech sounds, such as “r” and “s”.
HELP ME WITH…
- “R”
- “S”
- Any speech sound in English
- Communicating more confidently
English Accent Training
English Accent Training can help you communicate more effectively and efficiently in a variety of settings – both professionally and/or socially.
HELP ME…
- Be better understood by colleagues & strangers
- Speak with confidence in English
- Improve myproduction of English consonants
- Improve my production of English vowels
- Improve my English vocabulary & grammar
- Improve my English sentence phrasing
- Improve my speaking intonation, rhythm, & syllabic stress
Stuttering/ Cluttering
Stuttering refers to the smoothness of your speech. Fluency therapy can help you improve the forward flow of your speech, reduce the primary behaviours of stuttering, and reduce/eliminate unhelpful beliefs that lead you to restrict participation in your own life – such as answering the phone, ordering a meal, answering/asking questions, giving presentations, or avoiding social or professional interactions or events.
Cluttering refers to a rapid rate of speech, erratic rhythm, and poor grammar. These challenges make it difficult for you to be clearly understood.
HELP ME…
- Improve my speaking confidence
- Stop avoiding speaking situations because of my stutter
- Reduce or eliminate speech sound prolongations (e.g., “ssssssspeech”)
- Reduce or eliminate speech sound repetitions (e.g., “s s s speech”)
- Reduce or eliminate speech ‘blocks’ (e.g., “—–speech”)
- Reduce or eliminate secondary behaviours (e.g., stomping feet, eye blinking, etc.)
- Control my speech in different situations
WHY START NOW?
Participating in Speech, Language, Accent, Voice, and/or Resonance therapy can help your communication skills thrive! Therapy can help you maximize your communication potential across a variety of settings. Whether you’re communicating in a professional workplace context – such as presentations, meetings, demonstrations, classrooms, & phone calls – or socially with family & friends, together we will enhance your communication skills to express what it means to be ‘you’ in the healthiest, most individualized way possible.