Sydney speech pathologists helping adults and children speak for themselves. To book an appointment today, call us on (02) 8757-3838 or email hello@banterspeech.com.au.
Working on your accent? Helping a non-native English speaker to be better understood? We’re pleased to introduce our free fact sheets about common accent issues and training targets, now UPDATED to include common issues for even more languages,… Read More
Speaking is pointless if you’re not understood. But opinions diverge on how best to improve intelligibility – or even how to measure it. Having worked with adults and children with a range of communication challenges – from speech… Read More
In addition to traditional speech pathology services for people with communication impairments, we work with professionals, business owners and others who need to improve their professional communication skills to achieve their work and life goals. We’re passionate about helping… Read More
To help professionals, business owners and others who: speak English as a second (or later) language well or fluently; but have some English pronunciation issues, we are compiling some fact sheets about common pronunciation challenges (and therapy targets)… Read More
We’ve talked about the importance of intelligibility before. Intelligibility is an objective measure of whether your speech is understood. We all want to be intelligible and it is often a key goal for our clients. But what about… Read More
Telstra Chief Executive Officer David Thodey has been in the press lately talking about customer complaints involving “unintellligible” call-centre operators. Call-centre operators – particularly from India and the Philippines – are regularly criticised in the Australian press. But what… Read More
We use the term “accent” in at least a couple of ways: the sounds and pronunciation used by a “native” to speak their first language, e.g. when we say that someone from Sydney is speaking English with a… Read More
Three men and a lady meet in a bar Some (ahem) 20 years ago, when I was a youngster backpacking through Ireland, I bumped into a young Texan couple at a bar. They were in the midst of… Read More
