Welcome to LDS & Associates!
For Learners
LDS delivers quality training that tangibly improves oral American English skills. Our Learner Center offers robust, online learning options for individuals and corporate client worldwide. See our network of LDS Preferred Trainers to fit your unique needs.
For Professionals
Learner training solutions are only as good as the instructors who implement them. Trainers can chose beginning to advanced professional education programs for all issues related to high level ESL and oral skills.
With an online store product line that is customized for both!
Whether you are a Learner or a Trainer, LDS augments our training solutions with a comprehensive catalog of materials authored by company founder, Lorna Sikorski. We distribute quality materials that complement our in-house LDS product line – materials authored by dynamic, qualified trainers in the fields of accent improvement and high-level English language issues.
Includes spiral-bound workbook.
Innovative, comprehensive, “cutting-edge” approach to accent modification. Take communication training to the next level. Find it in the LDS Web Store!
Contains workbook and one audio cd
An innovative, comprehensive, cutting-edge approach to accent modification designed for intermediate to advanced students in the healthcare professions. Find it in the LDS Web Store!
Assess medical professionals’ pronunciation and intonation patterns before and after training. This assessment tool is a companion piece to Medically Speaking: Accent Modification for the Medical Profession. Find it in the LDS Web Store!
If the medical community is your focus, this is a welcome tool! Everything about this program tailors to these professionals: themes, vocabulary, idiomatic speech – even the length of the program!
Nancy Hiser, M.A., CCC-SP, is the founder of English Talk Shop (formerly, American SpeechSounds.) We have distributed the interactive Personal and Professional editions of American Speechsounds since 1995. Since then, we added American Speechsounds for Healthcare and her software vowel pronunciation game for adults: Is ERnie an attORney? Continually improving with our fast-moving tech world, English Talk Shop’s products are now downloadable in 2012!