Clear+Speech+Tutorial

What did you say about Clear Speech?



As teaching professionals, we pay such close attention to the behaviors and skills of our students. But what about our behaviors? One such behavior, speaking clearly to our students, is important for modeling the appropriate communication. Having an increased awareness of your speaking style can promote improvements of your speech clarity, or speech intelligibility. A variety of student listeners can benefit from more intelligible speech. Students, both with and without communication difficulties, can understand you better in noisy or stressful situations. Those students who are non-native listeners and who have hearing impairments can better understand as well. It has been found that "clear speech is 17% more intelligible than conversational speech for listeners with mild to moderate hearing loss or simulated loss." With an increased benefit for all listeners, it is important that teahcers understand how to control and use clear speech. The following video tutorials below can help you in the process of using clear speech!

Reference:

Shaw, B., & Jean, K. C. (2006). //Clear speech at normal rates: Intelligibility for older hearing-impaired adults//. Retrieved June 24, 2012, from http://www.asha.org/Events/convention/handouts/2006/1928_Krause_Jean/

Clear Speech Video Tutorial: media type="youtube" key="pChtPHuF25Q" height="266" width="351" align="center"


 * //Teachers: If you would like more information about how else you can promote clear speech and effective communication, please follow the link to the "Classroom Modifications" page. There you can view information about classroom acoustics and further techniques to use while communicating!//**