Why LDS?
LDS has been a leader in accent improvement programs and accent training materials for the last twenty years. In that time, we’ve expanded the scope of our materials to include high level language and usage issues for English that are important to our working, professional clientele. Through it all, we feel that LDS remains a leader in the field and our initial mission still holds up today:
- to produce accent and high level ESL materials that are result-driven, training solutions and
- to design instructional programs our own trainers would be motivated to attend!
Success in this mission results in one goal: LDS becomes your true partner in learning. We partner with you in problem-solving for better communication. That is, we help you find a personal plan of attack to improve oral and written skills for American English.
In 2011, we opened our LDS Online Training Center to adult learners worldwide. We’re offering a menu of live web programs: group and individual, series for improving oral English and polishing writing skills for English. We also have a comprehensive line of materials that are continually reinvented and earn high marks wherever they appear.
I’m extremely proud of our professional training record as well. The results are trainers throughout the US – and now globally – that we confidently can refer to you! We also monitor your feedback on these instructors. We know you put your trust in us to deliver content for your time and financial resources.
Contact us. We will be happy to brainstorm your needs: we want you to be successful, buying the appropriate materials and instruction programs.
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!