Joe Comeau is the founder and president of Capital Speech Consultants, LLC located in Clayton, North Carolina. He was appointed Director of the Institute of Language and Phonology - Training Division in 2008, succeeding the 20-year leadership span of Dr. Compton, and the three-year leadership of former Director Shelly Wallace.

Joe graduated from St. John's University in Jamaica, New York, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Communication Arts, and continued his education with a Master of Science degree in Speech-Language Pathology from The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. Joe was awarded the Certificate of Clinical Competence from ASHA in 1998 and is a licensed speech pathologist in North Carolina.

Joe has been using the Compton P-ESL program in his successful accent modification practice for many years, and has delivered professional training and coaching services to corporate and individual clients around the country. Joe uses the results of his practice-building, networking, and marketing techniques as a guide in instructing other speech professionals desiring growth in their practices.

Dr. Arthur J. Compton is the founder of the Institute of Language and Phonology and the pioneer behind the Compton P-ESL method. Dr. Compton has a Bachelor degree in speech pathology and a Doctorate of Linguistics from Ohio State University. Dr. Compton's impressive background includes teaching at the University of California, Berkeley and California State University, Hayward. Dr. Compton's experience in education also includes an associate professorship at the University of Iowa, where he developed academic programs in Psycholinguistics and Child Language.

For more than two decades, Dr. Compton has developed numerous tools to test the linguistic skills of children and adults and has enjoyed having much of his work published in professional journals and books. Dr. Compton received the Editor's Award from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association for his phonological research with children. Dr. Compton's San Francisco, California practice focuses on accent modification and child phonology.