Highline Community College

CALENDAR ITEM

FOR RELEASE:  IMMEDIATELY

DATE:                  February 6, 2009

CONTACT:         Kris Mason: (206) 878-3710, ext. 3345; kmason@highline.edu

Lisa Skari: (206) 870-3705; lskari@highline.edu

Event:               Pronunciation lab for health care professionals

Dates, times: Noon to 4 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays

9-11 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays

Kill date: March 13

Price:               Free

Location: Highline Community College’s main campus, Building 30, room 212

Highline’s main campus is located midway between Seattle and Tacoma at South 240th Street and Pacific Highway South (Highway 99); address: 2400 S. 240th St., Des Moines, WA 98198.

Description:  The drop-in lab is open to nonnative English speakers who want to improve their pronunciation of medical terms, phrases and sentences used for health care jobs. The lab features “American Speechsounds for Healthcare Professionals” software that records the speaker’s voice and compares it to the voice on the software.

Sponsored by: HCC’s Puget Sound Welcome Back Center

Website: http://flightline.highline.edu/welcomeback/

For more
information:     Call (206) 878-3710, ext. 3345, or e-mail kmason@highline.edu.

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Highline Community College was founded in 1961 as the first community college in King County. With approximately 10,000 students and 350,000 alumni, it is one of the state’s largest institutions of higher education. The college offers a wide range of academic transfer and professional-technical education programs, with day, evening and weekend classes. Alumni include former Seattle Mayor Norm Rice, entrepreneur Junki Yoshida and Washington state’s poet laureate Sam Green.