Nimra Khan, B.A(H), M.Sc. (S-LP), Reg. CASLPO

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The Power Of Professional Phrases In The Workplace

In today’s fast-paced office environment, effective communication is crucial for success. Whether you’re crafting an email, giving a presentation, or participating in a meeting, the words you choose can significantly impact how your message is received. Professional phrases—those carefully constructed expressions that convey clarity, respect, and professionalism play a vital role in workplace communication.

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Making Conversation In The Workplace

In a setting where collaboration, innovation, and problem-solving are vital, mastering conversation skills can significantly enhance your career prospects and workplace environment. In this article, we’ll explore the nuances of conversation skills, their impact on the workplace, and practical tips to refine your ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, supervisors, and clients.

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Navigating Corporate Climates: Empowering Women Through Speech Therapy

In today’s rapidly evolving world, women have made significant strides towards gender equality, breaking through barriers in various fields. Despite these advancements, corporate environments continue to pose unique challenges for women. In my experience with clients working in these tough environments, there is a lot of benefit to finding a communication style that fits their company while also feeling that they are being heard.

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My Approach To Speech Therapy

After working with adults full-time with Well Said, I’ve had the opportunity to help with many speech and language concerns, as well as learn from my clients the issues and obstacles they face in their professional and daily lives. This has allowed me to shape my approach to speech therapy and build my own ‘speech therapist superpower’; the key to my personal style of working with clients.

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How Speech Therapy Can Help Your Career

At WELL SAID, we converse with many clients who are seeking communication improvements for a variety of professional communication concerns. Often, clients do not expect to be able to target these concerns in a speech therapy appointment as it does not appear to be traditionally thought of as something a speech-language pathologist (SLP) can work on. However, SLPs can be some of the best individuals to target these areas as we are so focused on communication in a holistic sense, with training on the physiology of the subsystems of speech.

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Supporting Adult Hearing And Cognitive Difficulties

May is Speech and Hearing Month, which aims to bring more attention to communication, speech and language difficulties as well as the work that speech-language pathologists and audiologists do to support others in these areas. Speech therapists often need to work with clients who are not able to communicate well with them due to hearing difficulties or cognitive difficulties.

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How The Voice Works

I’ve always found it helpful and interesting to discuss how different parts of speech actually work in the body. This can be helpful for clients to picture in their minds what an SLP is seeing, and for clients to be on the same page about why it may be important to work on areas such as breath support or enunciation. I wanted to take some time today to provide some summaries about the physiology of speech.

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Social Communication Therapy For Adults With ASD

I’ve have had a lot of experience in working with children and adults on the Autism spectrum over the past few years, which has allowed me to see a variety of services available in the GTA. An unfortunate gap in services that I have noticed is concerning the adult population with ASD, as most of the adults I’ve worked with in this context have wanted support for social communication.

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Job Locations For Speech Pathologists

Are you an individual who is interested in working as an SLP? Aside from the education portion of becoming an SLP, it can be good to consider where you would like to practice as an SLP. This can be dependent not just on a physical location, but the types of clients you would meet and their main concerns. Here is a non-exhaustive list of job types as an SLP based on location, and the pros and cons usually associated with each.

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The Words Of Digital Therapy

As the popularity of online therapy services has increased since the start of COVID, many terms have become commonly used to describe aspects of this service which might previously not have been so important. It can be confusing to maneuver, especially if you do have not received therapy services in the past. Let’s have a review of terms which are helpful to know about.

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Benefits of Therapy vs Telehealth

Presenting to others is something that we must often do, whether that is in-person or virtual. Many people consider a presentation to involve a large audience and a PowerPoint, but this does not always have to be the case. Even a meeting to 5 people about a recent project’s progress can cause similar levels of nervousness.

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English Prosody And Word Stress

Many clients who would prefer to modify their accent often consider speech sounds such as a different production of the sound ‘r’. However, another way to modify an accent is to consider the rhythm of the language. Every language has its own prosody which helps speakers sound more similar to native speakers. This can be an important area to consider when modifying an accent.

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