The first EVER video blog post from Jordan Scholl, SLP for Toronto Adult Speech Clinic. Learn how to project your voice safely, avoid shouting, and maximize your impact. Great information for fitness professionals, teachers, actors, and anyone else wanting to take command of their voice and their audience.

When deciding whether to use steam or a nebulizer for your voice care needs, here are some important considerations based on the differences between these two methods of external hydration. Remember: knowledge is power when you are trying to make the best choice for your voice.

In this final post of our voice health series for fitness instructors, our speech-language pathologist and voice therapist, Jordan Scholl, offers a useful toolkit of healthy voice tips designed specifically for the intense work of a fitness instructor. Taking into consideration the fact fitness instructors rely on their voice for their livelihood, vocal fitness is an important part of whole-body health.

By popular demand, this blog post introduces a new series of posts to support those who work in the fitness industry on caring for their voice. In this series, we discuss potentially harmful factors unique to working in fitness class settings, tips for caring for your voice, and also how a speech-language pathologist and voice therapist may be able to help rehabilitate or train you to get the most out of your voice.

As occupational voice users, teachers must protect their instrument from the abuse and misuse that often occurs due to the high demand on their voices while at work. While all teachers are at risk for having issues with their voice, female teachers are particularly susceptible. In this post, we walk you through some of the facts about vocal health and some great tips to protect your voice so it doesn’t get schooled.

At TASC, we are passionate about your vocal health. Protect your voice from the unpredictable weather this winter, and the bacteria and viruses that thrive in it. Learn about ways you can keep your voice healthy before, during, and after an infection to ensure your voice survives the winter. 

With an adult approach to speech therapy, adults are able to make changes to their communication. Whether you have a disorder or want to work on communication skills for your own professional or personal development- our registered speech-language pathologist will collaborate with you to develop a program that fits your unique and individual needs.

Communication is the way that we share our identity with others. When our communication does not reflect who we know ourselves to be, speech therapy, voice therapy, or communication training can help. "My goal as a speech-language pathologist is to help more people become proud communicators who feel they can communicate their true Self every day!"- Jordan Scholl, SLP

May is the month of the year where we promote every person's right to communicate, and educate people on the role of a speech-language pathologist in facilitating this right. Throughout the month of May, we will be discussing the various roles of a speech-language pathologist and answering some of the most common questions we get about the services we provide for adults here at Toronto Adult Speech Clinic.

You may think you know the limits of what a speech therapist can do. But speech therapy is not reserved solely for children or disordered populations like stroke or accident survivors. Here are a list of just 10 (of the many) ways that a speech therapist can help non-disordered adults become stronger communicators.