Triangle Speech Services is the private, professional practice of Judith L. Bergman, a licensed speech-language pathologist (SLP) who specializes in foreign accent and regional dialect modification and related communication skills. I offer customized, individual tutorials to corporate-sponsored and self-enrolled individuals who speak English fluently but with moderate to severe accents that create challenges and frustrations in the workplace.  
   I spent the first two weeks of January mostly immobilized by the flu, even though I had had the "senior strength" flu shot last October. I spent most of the time in my reclining chair in my living room, sleeping or reading and listening to classical music on WCPE radio on my ancient stereo which has a very "temperamental" remote. I discovered that the remote seldom worked when I got up very close (with brand new batteries) but usually did work "from a distance," from my recliner!

  Twenty years ago in 1998, Bette Midler wrote and recorded a very inspirational song by the same name and I started hearing the melody in my musical brain!