There are many reasons one may want to reduce their accent: business, school, scholarly presentations, or the general impression they give others. Quite simply, you may know the language, but until your pronunciation is understood by others, it may negatively affect your ability to communicate. Businesses often pay for their employees to go through this training program. Ask your manager to reach out about individual and group rates.

After a stroke or with neurological diseases like Parkinson’s disease, the muscles of the throat may not work as well as they used to. You may find yourself coughing whenever you drink fast, or not being able to swallow things you used to enjoy. There are ways to fix this.

After a stroke, you may find that writing is more difficult than before whether or not you have residual hand problems. You may mix up letters or numbers, or forget how to spell simple words. The good news is that it is possible to regain these skills with the right therapy and strategies.

If you have had a trauma to the head, such as a car accident or sports injury, it can subtly change your brain so that others don’t notice, but you do. This is also common and frustrating for those with long-COVID, Lyme disease, or treated for cancer. The symptoms may be slower thinking, difficulty concentrating, and being unable to handle daily tasks like you did before. Yes, this can be helped with therapy.

Strokes and other neurological diseases like Parkinson’s can either suddenly or gradually affect how people understand you because of your speech. If you get a lot of ‘What?s’ It might not just be your spouse’s hearing. And there are scientific techniques to improve it.

Memory loss may come with age, but if it is progressing at a concerning rate, or if you are diagnosed with Parkinson’s, it can be slowed with therapy. If it happened after a stroke or traumatic brain injury, it can also be improved with targeted therapy.

After a stroke, you may find that you can’t understand people as well, or it takes a more effort to understand them, even after passing hearing tests, or with your hearing aids in. This is common with left-sided strokes (that affect the right side of your body), but can be improved with skilled therapy.

After a stroke, you may find that reading is more difficult than before, no matter if your vision has or hasn’t been damaged. The good news is that it is possible to regain these skills with the right therapy and strategies.

 If you know what you want to say, but you ‘can’t get the words out right,’ after a stroke, you may need therapy to reroute the signals in your brain to make all those words accessible again. Everybody has something important to say.

While singing lessons are generally not covered by insurance, being coached by a speech-language pathologist with a professional singing and musical background can give you the best of both worlds. You will receive singing lessons by a musician who is also medically licensed in achieving your healthiest voice without sacrificing your style or artistic expression.