Adult Services – speech tactics

Effective communication is multi-faceted and is typically developed when people are confident their ability to convey their thoughts clearly without communication barriers. However, there are many factors that can impact a person’s ability to communicate effectively with peers, family members, or coworkers. Barriers to effective communication can be due to language differences, dialectical differences/variations, and more severe speech/language impairments due to neurological accidents/injuries. The aforementioned areas are the focus of our ADULT THERAPY PROGRAM.

Accent Modification Training

An accent is a unique way that speech is pronounced by a group of people speaking the same language. A person’s accent depends on many factors; however, accents are usually characterized by regional and foreign speech pattern distinctions. Participants come from a variety culturally and professionally diverse backgrounds. College professors, engineers, physicians, accountants, nail technicians, college students, computer programmers, attorneys, IT employees, and many more have all benefited from pronunciation training with a Compton PESL Specialist.

It is important to note that accent modification/ pronunciation training is not promoted in an attempt to diminish one’s cultural identity. At SpeechTactics we encourage our participants to preserve the uniqueness of their native language/dialect, and improve their proficiency in “Accent Switching”. Just as one might learn to speak two or three different languages, the same goes for accents or dialects. Actors do it all the time!

The Accent Modification Training Program at Speech Tactics focuses on help individuals improve enunciation of standard American English sounds in words, phrases, and at the conversational levels. Our clients leave our AMT program feeling assured in their ability to speak with clarity and confidence as the move forward with achieved their personal, educational, and career goals! Ask us how we can help you!

Aphasia Therapy

Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) play a central role in the screening, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of persons with Aphasia. The professional roles and activities in speech-language pathology include clinical/educational services (diagnosis, assessment, planning, and treatment); prevention and advocacy; and education, administration, and research. Aphasia is an acquired neurogenic language disorder resulting from an injury to the brain—most typically, the left hemisphere. Aphasia involves varying degrees of impairment in four primary areas:

Spoken language expression
Spoken language comprehension
Written expression
Reading comprehension

Aphasia therapy at Speech Tactics focuses on helping clients regain functional communication skills through evidence-based therapy interventions implemented during post-stroke rehabilitation. Assessments we use include the Western Aphasia Battery-Revised and the Cognitive Linguistic Quick Test-Revised. If you or someone you know is struggling to communicate after suffering a brain injury/stroke, please give us a call and ask how we can help!

Cognitive Rehabilitation

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a form of nondegenerative acquired brain injury, resulting from an external physical force to the head (e.g., fall) or other mechanisms of displacement of the brain within the the skull. Signs and symptoms of TBI vary, depending on the site and extent of injury to the brain, premorbid abilities, and functional domains affected (e.g., physical, cognitive, language, sensory). TBI is associated with one or more of the following characteristics:

Changes in levels of consciousness
Memory disturbances
Confusion/ Thought processing difficulty
New-onset or worsening of seizure disorder
Visual field deficits
Hemiparesis
Difficulty with speaking

If you or someone you know has been impacted by a TBI, please give us a call to learn more about the TBI Program at Speech Tactics.