If you wish to neutralize an accent, your SLP will first guide you through a series of tests to determine how you are producing each sound of Standard American English (SAE) and to establish what aspects of your native language influence your production of SAE. Your clinician will use this information to develop a personalized plan of action to help you discriminate speech differences and accurately produce sounds in a manner consistent with SAE. Your SLP may also help you to modify and control your rate, rhythm, stress pattern, and intonation when speaking to improve your overall delivery in a manner consistent with SAE.
Treatment progresses in a hierarchical fashion from accurately producing individual sounds in isolation to producing sounds at word, sentence, paragraph levels, and within conversations.
Accent Reduction Program