Sarah Geiger Speech Pathology
School in Port Phillip

ABOUT THE CLINIC. She will give you strategies for minimising vocal trauma and increase the acoustic efficiency of your voice with strategies tailored to your needs as a teacher. If you are struggling to rely on your voice to do your job, contact Sarah Geiger Speech Pathology for a comprehensive voice assessment. Most of you speak up to 7 hours a day alone at school, let alone the demands of preserving your voice for social pursuits. So much of your work is contingent upon voice projection: teaching a lesson in large classrooms, coordinating action on the sports field, projecting your voice over the playground. Are you a teacher who loses their voice? By the end of term are you struggling to speak above the classroom din, have you difficulty singing clearly, do you sound hoarse often with a voice like a cabaret star? Teachers comprise one of the largest groups of professional voice users. THE TEACHING VOICE. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN MODIFYING OR REDUCING YOUR ACCENT, PLEASE CONTACT SARAH GEIGER SPEECH PATHOLOGY. Scores will be measured and plotted to determine acquisition of the therapy targets. The clinician will meet with the client and measure progress using probes to determine accuracy ratings. It is critical that home practice is undertaken to achieve improvement. Upon identification of therapy targets, the clinician will place the client on a home practice regimen and with consultation schedule that suits both parties. Assessment will examine individual sound production of the consonants and vowels required for Australian speech as well as consideration of prosody/ intonation (the “music” of speech), naturalness and intelligibility. Assessment will occur at the syllable, word, sentence and spontaneous speech level. Assessment of the client’s language usage, in particular their command of the Speech Sounds for the English language will be undertaken. The clinician respect patient confidentiality at all times according to the Code of Ethics for Professional practice issued by Speech Pathology Australia. This information will be stored in confidential files. The clinician will take a case history/ medical history for the client to determine any information relevant to the therapy process. WHAT IS INVOLVED IN ACCENT REDUCTION THERAPY?. Additionally clients may hold concerns about the impact of their speech production on their ability to access gainful employment. It is common for clients to report difficulties in “day-to-day communication” as a consequence of their native accent. Intelligibility enhancement is identified as an appropriate therapy goal if the client’s Australian English productions are difficult to understand. According to Speech Pathology Australia, the official registration organisation for Speech Pathologists in Australia, Speech Pathologists are often engaged by non-native speakers to assist in the areas of speech intelligibility. HOW DO SPEECH PATHOLOGISTS WORK WITH MULTI-CULTURALLY DIVERSE CLIENTS TO REDUCE/MODIFY ACCENT?. Speech Pathology Services: Accent Reduction/ Modification, Therapy for Stuttering, Voice Therapy & Rehabilitation, Voice Therapy for Performers, Language & Literacy. She offers accent reduction for a broad spectrum of non-native English speakers with considerable experience for speakers of Korean and Chinese, Slavic based languages (Russian, Croatian etc) as well as Spanish, Italian, Greek etc. An experienced operatic soprano, she is equipped to address the demands of a performing career on vocal output and can successfully rehabilitate and maximise vocal technique. Sarah Lobegeiger is a fully qualified Speech Pathologist (MA Speech Pathology - La Trobe University) who specialises in vocal therapy and rehabilitation as well as accent modification and reduction. (more).