I teach for a living but have a lot of linguistic baggage that I'd like to get rid of. Specifically, I have some weird pronunciation/accent issues and would like to speak "General American" or newscaster English. Is this something I can do on my own? What resources should I use? [more inside]
posted by mecran01 on Feb 27, 2013 - 7 answers

I am looking for movie / book ressources that broach topics related to Speech therapy as well as speech /writing difficulties, that would be available to anyone (i.e not necessarily professional ressources, though they could be useful). Thanks so much [more inside]
posted by Jireel on Dec 26, 2010 - 16 answers

Did you have speech therapy as a kid? Did you have experiences from your speech therapy sessions that traumatized or empowered you? [more inside]
posted by shortyJBot on Sep 10, 2010 - 45 answers

How do I talk to doctors in a professional manner? [more inside]
posted by bananaskin on Oct 7, 2009 - 11 answers

How do I fix my "accent"? [more inside]
posted by champthom on Jul 17, 2008 - 23 answers

I am a master's student in speech-language pathology looking for a clinical fellow position starting this summer. I'm doing all the regular sending out resumes to hospitals and whatnot, but I'd like to know if anybody here has any experience with the big US based therapy agencies... [more inside]
posted by absquatulate on Feb 15, 2007 - 10 answers

Should I get speech therapy for my 4 year old son? [more inside]
posted by forensicphd on Jan 6, 2007 - 36 answers

I am a school-based speech pathologist with a long list of kids to schedule. They are best grouped by a) grade and 2) type of impairment. Each kid needs one or two half-hour appointment(s) per week. They are scattered across separate classes with various schedules, each with preferred, acceptable, and unacceptable blocks of time in which I can see them. Free or low-cost scheduling app? [more inside]
posted by kmel on Aug 18, 2006 - 5 answers