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Voice Training for Clinicians

Professional Development for Speech Pathologists Training Their Own Voice​

Your voice is one of your most powerful therapeutic tools. It shapes rapport, scaffolds communication, and models healthy vocal behaviours for every client who walks into your room. Voice Training for Clinicians is a specialised professional development pathway designed to help speech pathologists strengthen, refine and embody their own speaking voice, so they can communicate with clarity, confidence and clinical intention.

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Please note: This is not a course on how to treat voice. This is training to optimise YOUR voice, YOUR presence, and YOUR therapeutic impact.

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Why your voice matters in clinical practice

The most powerful reason for clinicians to train their own voice is the direct impact it has on auditory–perceptual accuracy and precise therapeutic modelling, the two core skills underpinning effective voice assessment and intervention. When you can intentionally produce, adjust and feel changes in resonance, pitch, airflow, onset types, vibratory patterns or constriction, your auditory system becomes far more sensitive to those same qualities in your clients.


This elevates your ability to:

  • Make accurate auditory-perceptual judgements

  • Identify functional patterns behind the sound

  • Cue targets with confidence and specificity

  • Demonstrate exercises with technical accuracy

  • Provide feedback that clients can immediately understand and reproduce

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Simply put: the more control you have over your own voice, the better clinician you become.​

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Your voice also shapes the entire therapeutic interaction

While perceptual accuracy and modelling are the primary clinical outcomes, your voice also influences:

  • Regulation: helping clients feel safe, calm and grounded

  • Authority & rapport: balancing warmth and confident leadership

  • Clarity of instruction: essential across paediatric, acute and complex caseloads

  • Stamina & wellbeing: sustaining voice use across full clinical days without fatigue
     

Developing a grounded, flexible and intentional clinical voice not only sharpens your assessment and treatment skills, it enhances the therapeutic relationship and protects your own vocal health.​

What you will learn

1. Build a clear, efficient, sustainable clinical voice

Develop a voice that is reliable, expressive and effortless across full clinical days.


You will learn to:

  • Use breath management for longer utterances and clearer cues

  • Shape resonance and tone for warmth, authority and clarity

  • Reduce effort, strain and end of day vocal fatigue

  • Maintain technical coordination in high-load clinical environments

3. Use your voice intentionally for therapy

Shape your voice to enhance engagement, regulation and therapeutic outcomes, while modelling healthy, ethical voice use.


You will explore how to:

  • Use vocal prosody to support participation and therapeutic flow

  • Apply rhythm, melody and tone to scaffold language and interaction

  • Adjust vocal quality for different ages, goals and communication profiles

  • Model voice therapy techniques with precision and technical accuracy

  • Maintain your own vocal health to ensure you model safe, vocally healthy patterns for clients

  • Match your voice to modality (AAC, early language, fluency, voice, adult rehab, etc.)

5.  Your voice as a reflective clinical tool

Use your own voice to deepen insight into your clinical practice.


You will:

  • Identify your vocal habits, patterns and compensations

  • Explore how personality, experience and identity shape voice use

  • Develop a clinical voice that feels authentic, expressive and sustainable​

2. Strengthen auditory-perceptual skills

Training your own voice sharpens clinical listening, a core skill in voice assessment.


You will learn to:

  • Produce and contrast key vocal qualities used in CAPE-V, GRBAS, and other perceptual frameworks

  • Identify subtle differences in strain, breathiness, roughness, pitch, loudness and resonance

  • Map internal sensations to external sound to improve scoring accuracy and clinical judgement

  • Listen more objectively and reliably during assessment

  • Provide clear, technically accurate models that clients can immediately reproduce

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Research show that when clinicians can intentionally create the features they are listening for, their perceptual accuracy increases.

4. Embodied presence and grounded communication

Develop the attuned, regulated presence essential for guiding therapeutic work.


You will learn to:

  • Use nervous system awareness to support attunement

  • Apply breath, pacing and tone for co-regulation

  • Communicate with confidence and grounded clarity with parents, teams and stakeholders

  • Manage performance pressure in assessments, consults and presentations

Who is this for?

  • Early-career SLPs wanting to build confidence in auditory-perceptual skills and modelling

  • Experienced clinicians seeking more presence, clarity and stamina

  • Practice owners wanting to improve team communication

  • SLPs who feel tired, strained or depleted by daily voice load

  • Clinicians using their voice as a key modelling tool

  • Anyone wanting to feel more expressive, confident and regulated in sessions​

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Outcomes

By the end of the training, you will:

  • Feel more confident and in control of your own voice across all clinical contexts

  • Communicate with greater clarity, intention and therapeutic precision

  • Demonstrate voice techniques accurately and ethically, modelling healthy vocal behaviours

  • Make more reliable auditory–perceptual judgements using tools like CAPE-V and GRBAS

  • Regulate your own nervous system and better support client engagement and co-regulation

  • Experience reduced effort, tension and end of day vocal fatigue

  • Feel more grounded, expressive and connected to your authentic clinical voice

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Choose your professional development pathway

 

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Every clinician’s voice needs something different. You can engage in Voice Mastery for Clinicians through a pathway that best suits your goals, learning style and workload.

1:1 Clinical Voice Coaching

Individualised voice training for clinicians who want to work with greater clarity, ease and authority in their professional voice.

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This personalised format explores your vocal patterns in depth and translate insight directly into sustainable, real-world voice use.

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Best for: clinicians seeking tailored feedback, nuanced exploration and direct application to their clinical context.

Small Group PD Series

A reflective, skills-based voice training experience delivered in an intimate group setting.

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Participants learn through guided voice exploration, shared clinical discussion and practical application, deepening awareness of how your own voice functions in therapy and professional communication.

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Best for: clinicians who value collaborative learning and structured professional reflection. Small SP teams.

In Service Workshops 

Practical, evidence-informed voice training designed for teams and organisations.

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These workshops build awareness of vocal load, efficiency and communication patterns while offering clear strategies to support healthy, effective voice use in clinical settings.

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Best for: workplaces seeking accessible, high-impact professional development for their staff.

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