LET’S BUILD A RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR VOICE
1:1 Online and In-Home Speech and Voice Sessions/Therapy
If you need guidance in exploring your voice holistically for talking every day or singing (professional or personal fulfillment), learn more about my approach and practices here. Reach out here, on my SimplePractice site, or via phone if you want to move forward in your voice journey with me.
Peer and Colleague Consultation
Most of us as practitioners do not automatically receive training and education on care that is:
culturally responsive
trauma-informed
gender-inclusive
neurodiversity-affirming
intersectionally-driven
I offer consultation and collaboration opportunities to address the functional needs of your practice, because I am passionate about building a community of holistic practitioners in voice and communication. If you are interested in conferencing with me, reach out here.
Presentations
Stay updated on current and upcoming live presentations and webinars about gender-affirming care, neurodiversity-affirming practices in voice and communication, intersectionality and social justice in communication sciences and disorders (CSD), and more. Previous and/or future hosts of presentations, interviews, podcasts, and panels are shared below (non-exhaustive).
Gender Voice Training: a Workshop Led by Gender-Diverse Speech-Language Pathologists
Hosted by CU ANSCHUTZ and TRANS VOICE INITIATIVE
Open to all speech-language pathologists (SLPs), SLP students, and SLP Clinical Fellows (CFs) - all trans, gender non-conforming, gender diverse, and otherwise non-cisgender SLP colleagues and students can attend for free with a code
Registration here through December 31st, 2024!
1.15 ASHA CEUs (intermediate level, professional area)/11.5 PDHs
Saturday and Sunday, January 25th-26th, 2025 · LIVE/IN-PERSON
KEYS TO A SUCCESSFUL SLP PRIVATE PRACTICE by ASHA:
Private Practice and the Neurodivergent SLP (PD102780)
Presenter(s): Ruchi Kapila, MS, CCC-SLP; Bobbi Adams Brown, MA, CCC-SLP; Rachel Dorsey, MS, CCC-SLP
“Developing a Culturally Responsive Practice in Gender-Affirming Voice Services (PD102781)”
Credit(s): PDHs: 1.0, ASHA CEUs*: 0.1
SELF PACED - ON DEMAND with ASHA LEARNING PASS
“Vocal training allows us to be heard as we really are in that wider community. Each of us has an imperfect body to work with, just like everyone else.
Being able to set our own goals about how we want to be heard and learn how to achieve that also helps with coming to terms with the parts of ourselves that are more resistant to change.”
Das Janssen (he/him), PhD, Foreword in The Singing Teacher’s Guide to Transgender Voices by Liz Jackson Hearns (she/her;they/them) and Brian Kremer (he/him)
MEET RUCHI (any/all pronouns)
(Name pronounced: /'ɹutʃi kə'pɪlə/ or ROO-chee kuh-PIH-luh)
Ruchi Kapila, M.S., CCC-SLP Speech-Language Pathologist, Vocologist and Voice Teacher
I’m a speech-language pathologist (SLP), vocologist (read: voice science person), voice teacher/coach, singer, educator/presenter and full-time cat parent who really wants to get to know you.
I trained as a classical vocalist for over 25 years and have training in Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM) singing after growing up on alternative, punk, indie, and other forms of rock and pop.