This area along with “Determining Your Need” will help you accurately determine whether or not you can benefit from any of the courses available on Talk Business-Online.com™. This area specifically focuses on general and then more detailed information on who should not take this course.

Who should not sign up for these courses

1) These courses should not be attempted if you do not have a self-disciplined personality and the ability to follow step-by-step instructions to learn new speech, language, voice or telephone skills via independent study on the Internet.

2) If you require a “physical being” to be motivated and follow-through with recommended techniques, then you need to find a certified and licensed speech-language pathologist where you live. This can be done from the American Academy of Private Practice in Speech Pathology and Audiology website, in the Consumer Section: http://www.aappspa.org.

3) Do not attempt to take these courses if you do not have broad-band access. Because interactivity is required to do the training, the courses were developed with Flash and therefore require Flash to view them. Flash is downloadable for free frome the Macromedia website. However, high speed Internet access is required for the successful usage of Macromedia Flash.

Due to the requirements for the Certificate of Clinical Competence and in accordance with the Code of Ethics of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and due to State Licensing laws, La Rita Mason cannot do individual diagnosing. However, some self-assessment documents are located on this website to help you self-analyze. The following are available on this website:

Diadochokenetic Rate Self-Assessment (the repetitive speech exercise activity)
American English Consonants Pronunciation (Articulation) Self-Assessment
Individual Country Consonant and Vowel Self-Assessments