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Accent Reduction 101

Expand Your Career in Corporate Communication by Offering Accent Reduction Services and Learn How to Start a Small Business!

Nationwide there is tremendous opportunity for speech and language professionals to grow their career and income by offering accent reduction services and becoming a corporate communication specialist. Accent Reduction 101 fully outlines how to identify accented patterns and provides a full step-by-step guide on how to offer accent reduction programs. Our program motto is, “By Monday, you will be ready for your first client.”

Learning Outcomes

As a result of this course, participants will demonstrate the ability to:

  • List and contrast accented habits across cultures.
  • Describe how to eliminate foreign speaking traits.
  • Explain how to teach consonant and vowel sounds.
  • Assess and profile accented speech samples.

By the end of this course, you will have the program materials, teaching techniques and assessment skills needed to successfully analyze and reduce your client's accent. The Accent Reduction 101 Instructor's Manual is included!

You will be trained on how to launch a small business.

  • Demonstrate techniques for presenting fees with confidence.
  • List insider tips for approaching corporations.
  • Summarize marketing and advertising strategies that work.
  • Formulate a business plan and develop three 12 week programs.

Presentation Agenda Highlights

  • Accented behaviors across cultures
  • How clients can use their skills in the real world
  • Intonation: The foundation for accent reduction
    • Slowing down fast speech
    • Eliminating facial and laryngeal tension
    • Oral resonation application
    • Eliminating foreign speech traits
  • Assessing and profiling regional and foreign speech
    • Analyzing auditory and videotaped accented speech samples
  • Pronunciation of consonant and vowel sounds
  • The expanded /R/ and /L/ program
  • Vowel Sounds
  • Turn your new skills into cash! How to start a small business
    • Techniques on how to present fees with confidence
    • Marketing and advertising
    • Free local and national business resources
    • Building clientele and practice management

      What colleagues are saying…

      “I have taken all of the ‘big name' accent reduction workshops and this course was the best! I learned everything I needed to know from intonation, oral resonation and business start up. Elizabeth Peterson is a complete expert.”

      “I feel very confident that I can begin my business immediately and be great with accent reduction.”

      “Being an accent reduction specialist is an easy shift. What an amazing program and so GENEROUS with information. Thank You!”