Office will be closed from September 10-October 10
Office will be closed from September 10-October 10
An accent is a wonderful attribute to your speech! It reflects who you are in the most meaningful way: the place that you spent your developing years. An accent always draws us to you- we want to know more about you!
Sometimes, though, an accent may make your speech difficult for others to understand you. Do you ever think, That’s what I said, why didn’t they understand? It is so frustrating to be misunderstood! You may not fully understand what the problem is in your speech, you just know you want to be more successful at communicating effectively. Here at TalkKing, the aim is to keep the beauty of accented English, yet make it so those around you can easily understand you. They will better appreciate the lovely hills and valley of your speech if they can fully understand your words.
We begin with an individual evaluation to determine the specific speech and language issues that are affecting your communicative success. This in-depth process includes formal and informal testing measures, analysis, documentation and communication of results and recommendations. Specific attention is paid to finding patterns of errors with:
· Pronunciation of vowels and consonants
· Syllable stress and intonation patterns
· Rate of speech
· Ability to hear subtle differences in the sounds of American English
· Grammatical errors
· Vocabulary use
· Fixed expressions used commonly in English
We would also like to hear from you, what are your specific goals to enhancing your communication skills? What is your understanding of your communication difficulties?
After the evaluation, we can begin training sessions that are individually tailored to you. Your needs, your speech, your personality. We can help you present your best self.includes what they do, how long they’ve been at it, and what got them to where they are.
We need to know your lingustic background; what languages do you speak? Have you been trying to improve your pronunciation of English and it just hasn't worked? We want to know about your experiences using English in a variey of settings, and when you are feeling the most confident. We can help identify your personal struggles to clear speech and help make a plan to get your speech easily understood by others.
We recommend that you begin by scheduling six one-hour private sessions in an eight week period. It is best to begin with frequent practice with consistent professional feedback about your improvement.
The rate for six sessions is $400, or you can choose to pay for an individual session at $75/hour if you don't want to commit to an eight week time frame.
Many of our busy professionals prefer to meet on-line, or have a mix of in-person and on-line sessions. What works best for you? Please contact us with any questions about our accent modification program.
TalkKing Speech Therapy Services
7330 W Greenfield Ave. Ste 206, West Allis, WI 53214
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Speech Therapy based in the Milwaukee area