Effective Accent Reduction Training in Toronto and Throughout Ontario
Learn to manage your accent and improve your professional and social speaking skills with one-to-one training, small group courses and online telepractice classes.
PLEASE NOTE: All Classes Are Online. Please call to enquire about small-group classes and prices.
Managing Your Accent Comes With Many Benefits
Increase Your Confidence
Learn to recognize and know your speech patterns, how to change them and speak English with greater confidence.
Improve Speech Clarity
Learn how to change your pronunciation and make it easier for others to hear what you are saying in all situations.
Communicate Better
Learn how to reduce miscommunications with others and learn English rhythm and how to speak more efficiently.
Get The Results You Deserve
Sylvia Whiteside is a licensed Speech Language Pathologist and has been offering her accent reduction services in Toronto, the Greater Toronto Area and throughout Ontario since 2005.Accent Clear offers accent modification training to individuals, small groups and corporations. Services are available online only.
Please contact Sylvia to arrange a free telephone consultation – email or text with your availability for the coming week.
The ACCENT CLEAR Philosophy
Treatment focuses on improving speech clarity, not simply reducing or modifying an accent, and patterns that have little or no impact on clarity do not need to be worked on.
Accents are a part of a person’s history and personality and do not need to be eliminated in order to effectively communicate in English.
Sylvia Whiteside is a registered Speech Language Pathologist who has been working exclusively in the area of Accent Reduction Training in Toronto since 2005. Please note, you must be a resident of Ontario to receive my services.
Sylvia teaches her clients to effectively manage their accents by targeting those features, including stress and intonation, that impact most on clear speech.
Accent Reduction Training Can Be Of Benefit To:
- Foreign-born Professionals needing to improve their pronunciation so they can work successfully in Canada or advance in their careers.
- Competent English speakers who have difficulty communicating their ideas on the phone or out in the community due to their accent.
- ESL speakers who lack the confidence to speak socially or at work because they fear being misunderstood.
- Employers looking to improve the efficiency, accuracy and effectiveness of their ESL employees’ communication with co-workers and clients.
- Anyone who is frustrated by communication breakdowns that occur as a result of accented speech.
- ESL speakers with a personal goal of improving their spoken English, even if they speak clearly.
Accent Reduction Training Is Available to:
- Individuals who are looking for direct Accent Reduction Training in Toronto in a friendly one-on-one setting.
- Small groups of ESL speakers in Toronto looking for Accent Reduction at a reduced rate at their location.
- Foreign-born Professionals outside of Toronto who would like to access Accent Reduction services online. Classes are available to people across Ontario and in some foreign countries.
Accent Management Services
Individual Classes
Effective assessment, training and practice materials for Accent Management Training Courses from 3 to 20 hours. All programs are individualized based on assessment results.
Corporate Classes
Online, small group classes target skills specific to your business needs.
Online Classes/Telepractice
Individual and small-group online training provides the same services as in-person classes. I no longer offer in person classes.