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How To Ace Your Next Interview

In a job interview, you only have a short period of time to show the person on the other side of the table that you are the right candidate for the position. If you struggle with answering behavioural questions, don’t worry, you’re not alone! Read about how to use the STAR Framework when structuring your responses.

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Tips For Dating And Making Contact

On Sunday, October 4th, Well Said hosted an event called Dating on the Spectrum, which gathered individuals on the spectrum between ages 20-35 to allow them an opportunity to meet. Here are some tips that were shared with the participants, most of which are useful reminders for any person who are interested in speaking with a specific person.

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SLP vs OT vs PT: What’s The Difference?

Speech-Language Pathology (SLP), Occupational therapy (OT), and Physical therapy (PT) are all types of rehabilitation therapy. Rehabilitation therapy provides assessment and treatment for people to help regain their function whether it be there speech/language, physical, or everyday life skills. Here we will discuss each individual therapy and the similarities and differences between all three professions.

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Principles Of Persuasive Communication

Whether you’re convincing your child to eat their vegetables or selling a product to a potential client, persuasive communication is an essential skill for influencing those around you. To become an effective persuasive communicator, the following 6 principles of persuasion can guide you on your next sales call or dinner debate with the kids.

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Stuttering Explained

Often people mistake stuttering for typical dysfluencies. We all have dysfluencies at one point or another and this should not be confused with stuttering. A stutter is diagnosed by an SLP assessment looking at the types of dysfluencies the person is presenting, how often these dysfluencies occur, at what moments does the person stutter most (conversation, reading, single words), and how does the person react to their stuttering.

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Whole Messages

The main purpose of communication is to understand, and to be understood. The understanding component can be done through active listening, which involves paraphrasing and clarifying. The second part— expressing yourself the way you intend—can be a trickier task. How are you to send a clear message when your needs, wants, feelings, and opinions are convoluted?

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What Is Uptalk?

You may not be aware of what uptalk is but it refers to the rising intonation in the end of sentences. When uptalk is used continuously in someone’s speech, it may seem as they are constantly asking questions when they may be wanting to make statements. But why is up talk even important to mention?

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Transgender Communication Training – Finding Your Congruent Voice

Many transgender individuals experience incongruence between their gender identity and the sex they were assigned at birth. This incongruence can lead to gender dysphoria which can be psychologically distressing for those who experience it. At Well Said, we are dedicated to helping our transgender and gender non-conforming clients find their authentic, congruent voice.

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Online Courses Coming Soon!

We have been hard at work writing four online courses that will appear on our website within the next coming weeks! The four courses will cover the topics of assertive communication, women’s communication, leadership communication, and communication wellness.

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The Power Of Pausing

Silence is an uncomfortable experience for many speakers in today’s fast paced world. We often feel pressure to fill these moments with meaningless words such as “um” and “uh” instead of recognizing the important and impactful role that silence can play in our daily interactions. So, how can you learn to slow down and harness the quiet power of pausing?

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Office Expansion Complete

For those of you who have been coming into the downtown main location in the last few months, you may have noticed some big changes going around in the clinic. We have recently been going through an office expansion for the last few months. Renovations are now complete and we are finally pleased to offer three new office spaces for our wonderful clients to enjoy. 

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A Bit About Stuttering

Stuttering, refers to speech characterized by an abnormally high frequency of stoppages. Such stoppages in the flow of speech — or disfluencies—may come in the form of involuntary repetitions of sounds, syllables (beats), words, sound elongations, blocks or pauses. How is it caused? Why does it happen?

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Weekly Home Practice

You come in for speech therapy sessions every week and your speech language pathologist assigns you exercises/homework to practice until the next session. It may seem like extra work that you may not always have time for but it is very IMPORTANT!

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Ways to Practice your New Skills

Now that you’ve spent time and money addressing your speech, language, or voice goals, you may be looking for ways in which you can practice your goals. Practicing can happen in a variety of ways – the more diverse you make your practice, the better. Feel free to use these strategies as you generalize your goals.

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Pronouncing a Sound You Can’t Hear

We often work with people who know that they have trouble with certain sounds, but who say they don’t hear the difference between their version and the “correct” version. How can they learn to say what they can’t even hear? We often work with people who know that they have trouble with certain sounds, but who say they don’t hear the difference between their version and the “correct” version. How can they learn to say what they can’t even hear?

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Remembering the Essential Partnership

Myofascial Release is a form of manual therapy that helps issues of pain and movement dysfunction. Valuing clients as partners in recovery is crucial as they are the experts of their body, their pain and their concerns. The greatest therapy efficacy is observed through consistent communication between the therapist and client, where the client reports what they feel and the location in which they feel it.

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Make a Great First Impression

Whether you are being introduced to the person of your dreams for the very first time, or you’re sitting in the lobby area nervously waiting to be interviewed for the job you so desperately want to get, we have all been in situations where we know that we need to make an amazing first impression. Here at some tips on getting through those important few seconds.

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Fallacies You Didn’t Know Your Mind Was Committing

Cognitive fallacies are unfounded and inaccurate thoughts that taint and twist our understanding of reality. These beliefs take root in our minds through our subjective experiences and reinforce negative thoughts and emotions, which add greater negativity to our self-perception. Here are the four cognitive fallacies that you didn’t realize your mind might be committing.

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Prosody: The Music of Language

Prosody describes the pitch, loudness, and rhythm of speech. It is understood in two components: stress and intonation, and has multiple layers that subtly yet dynamically impact our message’s meanings. To learn more about Prosody, one of our Speech Language Pathologists explains further.

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Diaphragmatic Breathing

Diaphragmatic breathing is a deeper, more relaxed breathing, which results in a more powerful voice, verses clavicular breathing which leads to vocal cord tension;and causes your voice to be quieter, and harder to hear. One of our Speech Language Pathologists explains the differences, and how diaphragmatic breathing helps you to speak more loudly and sound more powerful.

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The Power of Positive Words

Working in a customer service role may not be easy, but many of us find that we need to interact with customers, clients, guests, or visitors, to our business on a daily basis. So how do we ensure that we make the best impression possible and that each interaction results in an excellent customer service experience? Here are some words that those of us in customer service roles can use to portray a positive attitude to our clients.

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The Many Faces of T

T is often a difficult sound to grasp for non-native speakers of English, and it isn’t because the sound is hard to pronounce. Instead, it is because what we think of as the “T sound” is actually composed of several different sounds, and pronouncing the T correctly requires an understanding of the rules surrounding which version to use in a given word.

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Refining the Art of Small Talk

Small talk is used to fill the uncomfortable and even unbearable silence we feel amidst others. We may not delight in it but most of us tolerate engaging in small talk as a part of socializing, mostly with strangers or acquaintances. One of our Speech Language Pathologists gives advice on how to become better at small talk.

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