You can benefit from our services if your speech and voice patterns prevent you from communicating effectively in social or professional situations.

A great many professions depend on clear speaking. Most people are surprised at how easily they can improve their skills in making presentations to groups. Our accent modification program is right for you, if you have difficulty conversing with clients, supervisors, employees, and colleagues; talking on the telephone; making presentations; or getting your point across efficiently. Age is no barrier to success in pronunciation training.

Foreign accent reduction
Regional accent modification
Voice improvement

IMPROVE your professional and personal speaking skills with our wide range of individual and group classes for pronunciation and voice.

Corporate training is for companies whose valued employees can benefit from any of our training programs.

Foreign accent reduction is for non-native speakers of English who need to improve their pronunciation of American English, so that they can communicate better, both professionally and personally.

Oral communication training is for professionals who depend on clear pronunciation, effective voice, and the ability to convey a message efficiently and with impact.

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Corporate Training

The valued people who make up your company bring a wealth of skill and knowledge about the organization's history and needs. However, difficulties with communication can interfere with productivity and profitability. Professionals with an accent may not always make themselves easily understood, and their credibility may come into question. No matter how valuable the ideas, without clear oral presentation skills, these ideas may fail to be communicated with impact. As a result, proposals may not be approved, sales may be lost, or longtime customers may be dissatisfied.

BK ONE offers solutions to these communication problems. Training programs to modify regional and foreign accents, to improve presentation skills, and to address other difficulties of oral communication are the cost-effective way to go. Communication training is far less expensive than spending months and resources recruiting new personnel.

When valued professionals in your organization need to speak more clearly, contact BK ONE for a customized program to address your company's concerns.

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Oral Communication

Oral communication skills are crucial in today's business and professional environments. They have a tremendous impact on whether you or your company succeeds. You need to be able to convey your ideas with an impact that is convincing.

You can easily improve your communication effectiveness by meeting the needs of your listeners. To understand you, your listeners need you to have clear pronunciation and voice with adequate loudness and pitch variation. They also need you to organize your message and to present new information in a way that makes sense to them.

Many people feel unsure of their oral communication skills. The good news is that at BK ONE, you can make dramatic improvement easily and quickly.

If you would like to have more impact when you make oral presentations, participate in meetings, talk with clients, or communicate with professional and business colleagues, the services offered at BK ONE are on target for you.

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Foreign accent reduction

Accent modification is a systematic method for changing speech patterns, including pronunciation, voice production, and rhythm.
If English is not your first language, you may speak English with a recognizable foreign accent. This is a problem if others can't understand you or if your accent gives the impression that you do not communicate well in English. Your accent may interfere with your success on the job and with your communication in daily life.

Our accent modification program is right for you, if you need to:

• converse more easily with clients, supervisors, employees, or colleagues
• talk more clearly on the telephone
• make more effective presentations
• communicate your ideas more efficiently

Age is no barrier to your success in this program.

Both private and group instruction are available. With either option, training is designed to meet each individual's needs. Each accent reduction program includes an individual evaluation, face-to-face instruction by a speech-language pathologist, all instructional materials, and assignments for self-directed practice. New tools, like computer analysis, easily enable you to view and compare your speech with the sounds you are learning.
When you improve your pronunciation of American English, people will focus more on what you are saying. People will understand you, and your expertise will shine through.