Lynda Katz Wilner, of Successfully Speaking,
and Marjorie Feinstein-Whittaker, of The Whittaker Group, join together to form
ESL RULES, LLC for their joint workshops and training materials. Visit their individual websites at www.successfully-speaking.com and
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,
We hope 2010 is off to a great start. We wish you the very best for a healthy and prosperous year ahead. |
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Tips for Healthcare Professionals
Many of you are designing curriculums for internationally trained healthcare professionals, both in college settings and smaller training environments. We have found that in addition to teaching pronunciation for medical terminology and medically-oriented vocabulary, there is a need to address basic communication in the healthcare setting. The following are some communication repair strategies we have found to be particularly useful to include in training programs or classes.
- Remain calm
- Maintain eye contact
- Repeat it one time
- Speak loud enough
- Rephrase your sentence
- Explain it another way
- Use visual cues, e.g., gestures, pointing
- Spell the difficult word aloud
- Write the difficult word
- Emphasize the important word
Please read how these strategies impacted some of Lynda's students who took her course, Communication Skills for Allied Health Professionals, at Baltimore County Community College this fall.
Student testimonials
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All medical products are 15% off until February 28th!
- Medically Speaking: Accent Modification for the Medical Profession
- The Medically Speaking Inventory
- Medically Speaking RULES
This does not include packages or bulk orders.
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Our newly released RULES BY THE SOUND will be reviewed in an upcoming edition of the online TESOL publication, As We Speak. As soon as it is available, we will send out a tweet to let you know!
Pay only $35 + S & H (regularly priced $39) for RULES BY THE SOUND (workbook only) until February 28th.
We will also have an article published in another online ESP-IS journal in January-February. We will send out a tweet on that one too!
In March (24-27) 2010, we will again have an exhibit booth at the International TESOL convention to be held in Boston, MA. We are also presenting "English for Medical Professionals-Assessments and Activities" on Thursday and Friday from 11-11:45. Please stop by if you are in the area!
If you haven't yet registered for TESOL 2010, here is some registration information.
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With best regards,
Lynda Katz Wilner
Marjorie Feinstein-Whittaker
ESL RULES, LLC
410.356.5666 | |
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