Communication In Academia

We are regularly contacted by professors and soon-to-be professors about communication within academia. Whether you are preparing your oral defense, interviewing for a tenure-track position, lecturing or doing media interviews, we can support you to shine in your best light from a communication perspective. 

Possible goals include: 

At Well Said: Toronto Speech Therapy, our therapeutic approach assesses the communication requirements of your position and your current communication effectiveness to determine functional goals to use in real life. Together, we will discuss these goals and formulate a plan to systematically work towards your communication goals.

 

Past Client Stories

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Professional Communication For A Young Adult

We helped Tamir through education, training and practice of assertiveness, body language, appropriate use of volume, I-statements, professional language, open-ended questions, small talk and conversation skills. Each session, Tamir was given homework assignments to practice over the week. We also worked on reducing communication anxiety through desensitization using social experiments, role-playing and dialogue practice.

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An Educator With A Frontal Lisp

We helped Kevin to prioritize his goals: first, the frontal lisp and second, the rate of speech. Next, we systematically worked through changing his pronunciation of the S and Z sounds. This took 10 weeks from start to finish. During the 10 weeks, Kevin attended weekly appointments with our speech-language pathologist, Melissa James, and completed 10 minutes of practice each day.

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