Medically Speaking RULES

Medically Speaking RULES is an innovative, comprehensive, cutting-edge approach to accent modification designed for intermediate to advanced students in the healthcare professions. Medically Speaking RULES reinforces the underlying skills introduced in Medically Speaking: Accent Modification for the Medical Profession. The realistic and practical content of Medically Speaking RULES will help the healthcare professional become a more effective communicator and thus enhance the caregiver-patient relationship and the quality of patient care.

Lynda Katz Wilner, M.S., CCC-SLP, of Successfully Speaking in the Baltimore-Washington, DC area and Marjorie Feinstein-Whittaker, M.S., CCC-SLP, of The Whittaker Group in Boston, are corporate speech trainers and licensed Speech and Language Pathologists. Their respective companies specialize in designing communication programs for second language speakers and professionals in the business/financial, high technology, and scientific and medical professions. Their goal is to help professionals from diverse cultural backgrounds achieve excellent communication skills so that they may reach their full professional potential. Lynda Katz Wilner has authored Medically Speaking: Accent Modification for the Medical Profession and The Medically Speaking Inventory: An Assessment Tool for Accented Speech. Marjorie Feinstein-Whittaker has co-authored a number of training materials including Mastering Idioms of American English (MIAE), Volumes 1 and 2, with Lorna D. Sikorski, and Speak Freely: Aspects of Voice and Communication, with Shannon Jones. They have collaborated over fifty years of combined experience to develop RULES: Rules for Using Linguistic Elements of Speech and Medically Speaking RULES.