Services are customized and tailored so that we can successfully meet your speech objectives.
Accent reduction
First clients, will be recorded and evaluated to determine intonation patterns, variations in pitch, sound production differences, oral resonance and voice that create a foreign sounding accent. Next, students will learn how to resolve the target areas which cause the accent. Students will be given exercises and audio support to use on a daily basis. The course will include a manual covering lessons in American intonation, voice, resonance, breathing, optimal sounding pitch gauged to your personal vocal anatomy, American consonant and vowel sounds. The specialist will identify primary habits contributing to accented speech during lessons. Students will learn to modify speech patterns specific to their behavior patterns.
It is important to note: students will be given simple daily strategies to help to dedicate themselves to changing their speech behaviors in order to form the new behavior of standard American speech. Special training and tips include a personal speech notebook, using daily speech reminders, drills, self evaluation in worksheets, and weekly tracking goals.
Fluency
This service is for people who stutter and offers a holistic approach to modify disfluent speech patterns into more fluent speech, which focuses on use of breath, pauses and fluency shaping techniques. The method is found to be successful by many when applied as an everyday strategy. Eventually, with practice, the speaker adapts the new way of speaking through an automatic mental filter in which he or she speaks.