ARI is known for helping organizations increase their bottom line, building strong teams, enhancing career paths, and strengthening ties to clients and customers. Our faculty, IT specialists, and program managers help organizations excel and increase their competitive edge. What makes ARI different from other accent reduction companies?
- Exceptional Faculty: ARI's faculty of accent reduction specialists are certified speech language pathologists, linguists, and/or voice instructors.
- On their own, these three academic disciplines do not prepare accent reduction teachers to address all the needs of non-native English speakers.
- In addition to these important starting points, each faculty member is certified in the Ravin Method® of rapid language acquisition.
- This curriculum and methodology gives our clients the strategic advantage of mastering all aspects of English pronunciation.
- Cultural Competence: Our faculty understand the nature of doing business in a global economy. They are also bilingual and know, first-hand, the difficulties of learning to use new pronunciation patterns. ARI faculty know how to create supportive environments where differences are not only accepted, but valued.
- Proprietary Accent Reduction Courseware: that's been vetted by the best. ARI's courseware is made available to every NATO personnel around the globe. Other clients using our curricula and methodology are the University of Michigan, Cornell University, and Fortune 100 companies. View our accent reduction training client list.
- Distance Learning Options: American accent programs are available as distance learning courses using ARI's virtual classrooms. Participants see, hear, and share documents all over the world...in real-time. ARI global classrooms accommodate private and/or group instruction; in-house IT specialists provide support to all distance-learning participants. ARI has the ability to scale its programs to meet an organization's training needs.
- Scalability: ARI has the ability to scale its American accent training programs to meet an organization's size and training needs.
- Recognition as the Industry Leader: Many companies claim to be the industry leader in accent reduction, but only ARI has the track record to prove it. ARI's leadership has been featured in The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, AOL Daily Finance, and on CBS Radio National News, Voice of America, and in a special report by Brian Williams for NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. See the full list of news coverage and interviews.
- Continuing Education Credits: Because our American accent programs produce clear and effective communication in the corporate workforce, ARI has been approved to offer CPE credits to qualifying business professionals.
- Tackling the Sensitivity Issue: Some people hesitate when discussing accent reduction training with their employees. At ARI, we give our clients specific techniques and step-by-step processes to talk about the objective of our accent reduction programs: eliminate language barriers while maintaining our unique cultural identity.
- Building Bridges-Tuning Your Ear to Accents: Seamless communication is our objective. At ARI that means providing accent comprehension side by side with accent reduction. We use our patent-pending program, Decoding Foreign Accents®, to teach all members of our workforce ways to understand unfamiliar accents and create bridges of communication.