Speech Therapy

Speech Therapy(Medical) by Taalismn

The skill of diagnosing and treating speech impediments and retraining those with vocal cord damage, including that which has required surgical reconstruction. The skill also teaches recognition of the auditory signs of psychological and physiological problems that may affect a person’s speech, as well as a familiarity with specific accents and manners of speech. It is also useful in training others in the imitation of different styles and modes of speech.
The first roll is diagnostic, to determine, from auditory cues alone, if the nature of a speech impediment can be psychological or physiological(such as a stroke or the influence of drugs), though this is only a most general diagnosis(cannot specifically tell the listener that, for example, slurred speech may be the result of a brain tumor). Second roll is to formulate a treatment and training regimen, if possible, to restore functional speech. Speech therapy will also cover training people to use artificial sound makers(in event of total removal of the vocal cords), or, in settings with cybernetic technology, the use of voicebox implants.
The skill also gives the trained ear some ability to recognize specific speech patterns such as regional accents.

Base Skill: 60/50 % + 5% per level of experience, +10% if Psychology is also taken.

Other Bonuses:

+5% to Imitate Voices and Sounds.

30% + 5% per level of experience to recognize accents and regional speech influences.