We are offering Medically Speaking: Accent Modification for the Medical Profession as well as our enriched version of the Compton P-ESL or Pronouncing English as a Second Language Program. These basic level programs are described in detail below.  We  begin with a free telephone consultation followed by a formal information session and screening test held in our office locations or on corporate sites.

We also offer two additional specialized programs: Speak Standard, Too and MEEC (Mastering Effective English Communication).

• Speak Standard Too is a program for Americans who are regional speakers of English and wish to "code switch" from their dialect patterns to standard business English in corporate settings.

• The MEEC is an advanced program with three components addressing intonation, consonant and vowel variations. Enrollment in this program is by recommendation of the instructors and is for clients who have successfully completed the P-ESL program.
  
• We also offer Targeted Coaching to graduates of any of our tutorials. Clients make individual appointments as needed to work on specific presentations or other work-related speaking tasks, bring two copies of their text or notes and their digital recorder and pay on a per-session basis.

See "Steps to Success" below.

Medically Speaking: Accent Modification for the Medical Profession

by Lynda Katz Wilner, M.S. CCC-SLP of "Successfully Speaking"

 Program Description:

• The Inventory: an assessment designed to be administered by a speech-language pathologist.
• Client manual
• Four audio CDs
• Content areas: (1) Intonation, (2) Pronunciation and (3) Idiomatic Expressions and American Slang
• All content including the testing and training materials is medically oriented and appropriate for training foreign born physicians, nurses and others who work in medical settings.

The Pronouncing English as a Second Language (P-ESL) Program

By Arthur J. Compton Ph.D. CCC-SLP

Program Description:

• Based on 30 years of research and development at the Institute of Language & Phonology
• Extensive normative data on clients from 100 different language backgrounds
• Training and specialty certification offered to speech-language pathologists
• Includes practice with client's work related materials
• Stresses technical vocabulary, presentation skills and carry-over practice activities to transfer skills to actual work and social speaking situations
• Triangle Speech Services enriches the P-ESL Program with our own units on Repairing Conversational Breakdowns, practice strategies for learning difficult sounds and explicit teaching of intonation patterns.

Steps to Success

Step 1.We begin with a free telephone consultation. You tell us about yourself and your speaking challenges. We briefly describe the programs and determine  your commitment to meeting the daily practice requirements.

Step 2. An information session is held to demonstrate the materials and conduct two brief accent screening tests. The second is digitally recorded and a sound file with a brief analysis of your accent features will be emailed to you. You will receive an information folder with a course outline, fee summary, training proposal for your manager, if requested, and articles about accents. There is a $85.00 fee (separate from the tutorial fee) for this session which typically lasts about one hour.

Step 3. A comprehensive individual evaluation which assesses accent features including intonation as well as grammar, understanding of idioms and word knowledge, is digitally recorded and analyzed. This is administered again as a post test. We provide written initial and final reports and before/after digital sound fiiles. An individualized curriculum is developed from the results of this evaluation.

Step 4. The client purchases materials for the appropriate program.

Step 5. We provide an individual customized tutorial.*

• Thirteen one-hour individual tutorial sessions are conducted at our offices.  We offer a 10% discount on the evaluation and tuition fees to individuals without company sponsorship, accept installment payments from individuals and accept payment by MasterCard or VISA. We also offer a seven-session version of the P-ESL for individuals with mild accents and then follow this with the Intonation Module of the advanced MEEC or with the entire MEEC program. We usually schedule sessions every two weeks to allow additional time for daily practice of each assignment.

• *NOTE:   We are currently scheduling telephone consults followed by Information Sessions and have openings for new clients.  Ms. Vroom has  openings for new clients in the Raleigh area. We are only conducting individual sessions at this time.

Try a practice version of the Compton PESL CD-ROM