How can a speech language pathologist help me as an attorney, business executive, teacher, salesperson, or other professional?

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Patricia Welty · Accepted Answer

Our public speaking program is designed to help you enhance your delivery so you may communicate with greater confidence and with less anxiety. The exercises we target enable you to plan and organize your thoughts for a more fluent delivery. Practice also facilitates your ability to produce words with greater clarity and precision, speak with greater efficiency, and be better understood to effectively engage your audience and maximize your impact.

Language organization, voice and speech exercises, and relaxation techniques to help one manage speech-related anxiety are all targeted within programs. Organizing one’s thoughts into language to clearly reflect one’s ideas and mission for their audience may be an initial focus. Utilizing proper breath support and control, as well as improving vocal projection, pitch, quality, and resonance to help you strengthen your voice and improve speech clarity will also be targeted.

Using strategies to help you elicit the relaxation response and manage speech-related anxiety is also trained to help you control your breath when speaking and decrease muscle tension. Other techniques, such as pausing and phrasing will teach you effective ways to shift your speech rate, intonation, and stress patterns to more effectively communicate your ideas. These exercises change your delivery and improve the overall strength, coordination, and efficiency of your voice while decreasing physical tension that may be experienced when speaking. They also work to give you a greater sense of control and communicative confidence to optimize your message.

Techniques are practiced in personally-relevant exercises that relate directly to your profession or area of focus. This may include role-playing activities, preparing and rehearsing a presentation, or simulations of professional speaking demands, such as leading a meeting or workshop.

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