Accent Reduction Therapy

An accent is the way a group of people speak. This may be a regional dialect such as a person from Boston will sound different than a person from Texas. This may also be foreign such as someone from Mexico or Germany speaking English will sound different than a native speaker of English.

Many seek accent reduction therapy to reduce or eliminate their accent for a variety of reasons. These reasons may include:

1) Others have difficulty understanding their speech
2) They may avoid social interactions in order to avoid being misunderstood
3) They feel frustrated at having to repeat themselves over and over in order for the other person to fully understand their message.
4) People focus on their accent rather than on their message

A speech-language pathologist is able to help a person learn to change their speech pronunciation thus reducing their accent. There are many strategies that you can learn to address your sound production, rate, rhythm and intonation to reduce you accent.

If you would like to learn more about accent reduction therapy please contact one of our licensed, certified speech-language pathologists by phone at 1-877-480-7913 or by e-mail at info@independenetspeech.com

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