Our Accent and Speech Services
At Beach House Therapy Services, we believe in establishing trust and keeping connections with clients in the beginning and throughout the therapy process. While deficits play a role in evaluations and are the reasons for starting therapy, Kara aims to find client strengths and build on them.
Accent and Dialect
Accent/dialect coaching and skill training is for advanced English language learners who are seeking to improve their confidence and naturalness when using higher level speech skills such as pronunciation, intonation, stress patterns, and domain-specific vocabulary for general American English.
Literacy
Literacy includes reading (“decoding” or the ability to sound out words), comprehension (understanding meaning of what we read), and the ability to convey our thoughts in written form.
Language
Language therapy is “what” we communicate. This involves areas such as vocabulary, answering questions, using correct grammar including past tense verbs in sentences, etc.
Speech
Speech therapy is what most people think about when they hear the phrase “speech therapy.” This can be for pronunciation goals such as improving the /r/ sound in “rabbit,” the /s/ sound in “sun, etc.” Speech is “how” we communicate.
