Programme Content
Initial Assessment
Considers your:
Motivation and potential for change
Learning style
Any medical barriers to success e.g reflux problems
Digital Voice recording (this can be delayed depending on comfort/confidence levels)
Therapist and self evaluation of vocal performance
Brief introduction to the voice – how it works and why male/females voices sound different
How vocal habits can be broken and changed
Introduction to basic pitch technique
Session 2
More on pitch and resonance
Continued practice
Good pitch and variation on phrases
Vocal health and how you can damage your voice with the wrong usage
Feedback and planning home practice
Session 3
Consideration of recent progress
More on intonation and vocal changes
Conversational speech –use of tag questions and descriptive words
Feedback and planning home practice
Session 4
Self evaluation/review of progress
Review of digital recordings
Vocal projection on pitch or
How to be loud in a crowd
Feedback and planning home practice
Session 5
Pitch should now be easy to achieve – is it?
More volume practice
Female vocabulary and phrasing – establishing your own style
Different styles for different social roles
Feedback and planning home practice
Session 6
Conversational styles continued
Phone practice and feedback
Continued volume work
Feedback and planning home practice
Session 7
(Can be moved to earlier session)
Non Verbal behaviour
Small gestures that accompany speech
Sitting/Standing
Eye contact /head nods
Physical space – who takes up more?
Feedback and planning home practice
Session 8
Putting in all together with feedback
Focus on pitch, intonation, vocabulary and phrasing
Requesting/giving information
Short conversations
Phone calls
Monologues
Feedback and planning home practice
Session 9
More integrated practice with feedback
An outing if you wish
Session 10
Final evaluation
Digital recording
Things to work on after discharge!
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