Corporate Speaking & Accent Reduction
Corporate Speaking
& Accent Reduction
- Our Corporate Communication & Accent Reduction programs include research evidence from three different professional industries including: Business, Psychology and Speech Therapy.
- We target speech goals: how to project your voice, change your rate or clarity of your speech and/or have good eye contact.
- We target corporate communication: active listening skills, the timing of reactions, solutions to problems and/or non verbal communication.
How Are Services Offered
at Therapy Spot?
Step One
Complete
an Assessment
Step Two
Analysis of Results
and Development
of Treatment
Step Three
Treatment
Before we can begin treatment, we need to complete an assessment to answer the following questions:
- What are your communication needs in the context of your daily life?
- What are your communication needs that may affect your ability to be successful in your life (i.e, work, school, family interactions, community involvement)?
- What would you like to achieve in these settings (work, school, community etc)?
Assessments at The Therapy Spot:
- Interview of the individual, their family, or important communication partners
- Review of case history (pre-injury status, academic, employment status, medical & rehabilitation history, etc.)
- Comprehensive assessment of
- Communication (listening, speaking, reading, written expression, discourse, conversational interaction, social communication)
- Cognitive skills required for communication (attention, memory, organization, reasoning, problem solving, executive functions, self-regulation)
- Consideration of potential contributing factors (fatigue, sleep disturbance, visual disturbance, stress, hearing, pain, mental illness etc.)
- We do on-site hearing tests for understanding speech and language
- Selection, administration, and interpretation of standardized tests
- Functional evaluation of school, work, family, or community communications (current status and communication demands)
- Consultation with other professionals or review of their reports as indicated
- Preparation of a comprehensive report
- Collaboration with client in the preparation of Goal Attainment Scale meaningful Goals
Analysis of Results and Development of Treatment Plan
An individualized 12-week (most often) plan is developed for you. The plan takes into consideration:
- Your assessment results,
- Your current needs,
- Goals you want to achieve
- Task analysis of each goal in order to break it down into sub-steps that can be achieved over a 12 week period.
Decision on where Treatment will take place:
- Your home
- Your work-place
- Your school
- Our clinic
Treatment
- Treatment would focus on your corporate speaking or accent reduction needs.
- All Treatment would be team based and collaborative. You will never feel tested.
- Goals will be broken down into achievable steps and each therapeutic session will target one of those sub-steps to allow for continued progress.
- You will be able to see the progress each week
- Further evaluation of progress will occur at 6 week and the 12 week mark.