\"Speak By Design\" provides accent reduction courses for the greater Chicago area. The course focuses on the individual student, tailoring accent reduction services to specific areas of student need. \"Speak By Design\" targets areas of student need using a tape recording of the student speaking as well as a phonological survey. This helps the school to decide what areas of intonation, inflection, pace, rhythm and pronunciation are in need of modification. The school educates students in the skills they need to notice and manage their accent including drills, conversation and a final self-assessment that allows a student to continue their accent modification on their own.
Speak By Design
2211 West Iowa St. #3F
Chicago, IL 60622
773-412-4654?
speakbydesign.com
Accent Reduction, Inc. is a school in Southfield, Michigan that provides accent reduction as its only service. Helping people with accents ranging from severe to mild, the school boasts the ability to reduce accents by 50 to 70 percent. Programs are typically between 13 and 14 weeks long, meeting once per week for about two hours. Courses are customized to individual student need and taught by certified speech and language pathologists. In addition to courses held at the school's campus, Accent Reduction, Inc. also offers private classes. Class sizes are small, frequently ranging between two and five students per instructor.
Accent Reduction, Inc.
29688 Telegraph Road, Suite 400
Southfield, MI 48034
248-354-9955
accentreductioninc.com
For those seeking to reduce their accents in South Texas, Englishworks, Inc. provides accent reduction instruction. Englishworks provides students with three different levels of accent reduction training. The first level class is designed for students with a fluent command of English who wish to work closely on their pronunciation. The second level class focuses specifically on vowel and consonant sounds that continue to trouble the student. The third tier class at Englishworks expands on skills taught in the prior two levels, as well as educating students on how to monitor and modify their accent without instructor assistance in the future.
Englishworks, Inc.
3401 Custer Road, Suite 126
Plano TX 75023
972-312-8660
englishworksinc.com
San Diego Speech Therapy, Inc. (formerly known as Advance Speech) provides a variety of speech therapy services, including accent improvement therapy. Instruction from SDST is entirely individualized, specialized for the student's needs. Courses do not take place at the company's offices, but in a convenient location for the student. The therapists analyze a student's speech patterns, including the student's accent as well as their choice of words to help craft a program to make them sound as much like a native speaker as possible.
San Diego Speech Therapy, Inc.
8677 Villa La Jolla Dr., Suite 101
La Jolla, CA 92037
619-840-7872
sandiegospeechtherapy.com