Center for Distance and Professional Education

Professional Education


Noncredit Distance Education Course

This computer-based, noncredit, distance education course is designed for non-native speakers of English who wish to modify their accents when speaking English.
The course is also appropriate for native speakers of English who wish to modify regional accents.
Professionals, scientists, men and women in business, and anyone whose major responsibility is to communicate with other people, will find this course especially helpful in improving oral fluency and speech intelligibility.

Sponsored by:
Washington State University Speech and Hearing Sciences and Conferences and Professional Programs

Program Flyer in PDF format

Online Course Registration

WSU Speech & Hearing Sciences site
Cancellation Policy
  • If student has registered, purchased Speech Works, and not submitted a speech sample disk for feedback there will be a $50.00 processing fee with no refund on software.
  • If student has registered, accessed the Learning Center copy of the software, and not submitted a speech sample disk there will be a $50.00 processing fee.
  • If student has registered and submitted a speech sample disk for evaluation and feedback there will be no refund of tuition fees.
Important Note to Students

Students are encouraged to take full advantage of the evaluation and feedback process in order to receive the maximum amount of benefit from the course. A minimum of one hour a day of practice is recommended to accomplish the greatest results.


WSU Conferences and Professional Programs posts its conference brochures to the World Wide Web in PDF format, which is viewable with Adobe Acrobat software (available for free on the Adobe Web site). If you have any difficulties accessing the information in this format, please do not hesitate to contact us by phone at 800-942-4978 or 509-335-3530 or by e-mail wsuconf@wsu.edu for a printed copy of the conference information.
Center for Distance and Professional Education , PO Box 645220, Washington State University, Pullman WA 99164-5220, 509-335-3557, Contact Us