Speech Path Consulting LLC
As a dedicated Speech-Language Pathologist, I specialize in helping both children and adults achieve their communication goals. With a focus on teletherapy, I provide personalized and accessible care tailored to each client’s unique needs. Whether it’s enhancing speech clarity, addressing language difficulties, or working on specialized areas such as fluency and social communication, my approach centers on thorough assessments and strategies that deliver meaningful results. My mission is to empower clients to communicate with confidence and ease in every aspect of their lives.
Beyond my work as a speech therapist, I have a strong background in computer programming, with expertise in Node.js, Firebase, Google Cloud, ReactJS, HTML/CSS, and more. This technical knowledge enables me to integrate innovative tools into my teletherapy practice, ensuring a seamless and interactive experience for clients. Whether you’re seeking speech therapy for yourself or a loved one, or you’re exploring professional development in communication, I am here to provide expert guidance and support tailored to your needs.
In addition to traditional speech therapy, I offer services to support professional and personal growth, including accent reduction, ESL coaching, and preparation for interviews and presentations. These sessions are designed to help clients refine their communication skills and achieve their goals in workplace and social settings.
English Fluency and Job Growth
A recent study on 38 countries by Cambridge English stated that employees in countries like China and Brazil who are fluent in English have better salary packages and promotions than non English speakers.
Important Targets of Learning a New Language
Fluency is a lot of times, when learning a second language, used to describe how fluent someone is in the language being learned. Being fluent, is when someone is able to express, read and comprehend natural speech at a specific appropriate level.
However, when working on speech specifically, fluency is the smoothness of all the sounds, syllables and phrases that work together in conversation. To put it into perspective, a dysfluency or example of a fluency disorder would be stuttering or some type of interruption in the smoothness of the speech.
ESL learners can have many dysfluencies from adding sounds ( vowels – epenthesis ) or just sometimes speaking too fast or prolonging sounds and syllables when not needed.
Structure is simply the word order of a sentence. This is almost always a difficult area to learn for language learners in Asia vs the West and vice versa.
For example, when looking at comparing English to most languages in Asia, the adjectives will come before the noun in English and there are many different or additional word traits such as articles and prepositions that are not in native languages of Asia. This can be confusing when trying to figure out where to place the words in the sentence.
Lets look at some sentences in Thai vs English.
“Where is the bathroom?”
“ห้องน้ำอยู่ที่ไหน” = “Hongnam yu tinai ” = “Bathroom stay where?
As you can see, the sentence is more simple ( missing article “the” ) and words are in a different order which can be confusing.
Let’s look at another example with adjectives.
“I want a cold beer”
ฉันต้องการเบียร์เย็น = chan tongkan bier yen = I want beer cold
As you can see, there is not an article “a” and the adjective is placed after the noun.
Understanding the differences in word structure is a very important step in getting a good foundation to build learning.
