Services offered:
In-home consultations
Parent/school conferences
Professional workshops
Developmental speech and language milestones
Bolstering your child’s speech and language skills
Cultivating pragmatic (social) language skills
Communicating effectively with a person with Aphasia
Safe swallowing and feeding techniques for adults (Dysphagia)
Healthcare: reducing risks/complications of aspiration
Optimizing healthy vocal use for the professional
Assessment and treatment for:
Pediatric Speech:
– Articulation delay
– Apraxia
– Phonological disorders
Pediatric Language:
– Receptive and/or expressive language delay
– Pragmatics/ social language
Adult Speech:
– Dysarthria
– Vocal dysfunction (requires ENT consult prior to treatment)
– Stuttering/dysfluency
– Speaking valve use
Adult Language:
– Aphasia (following stroke, TBI, cancer)
– Basic alternative augmentative communication
– Cognitive-communicative deficits
Adult Swallowing:
– Oropharyngeal dysphagia (requires instrumental evaluation via VFSS or FEES prior to treatment)
Common reasons for choosing a private pay clinician:
- Adjunct services to school-based therapy
- “Filling in the gaps” over school vacations
- Less severe deficits which do not qualify for school-based services
- Services not covered by insurance carrier
- Exhaustion of insurance benefits
- High deductable for insurance plans
- Convenience of in-home or location-based services
Resources
Helpful Links:
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
American Stroke Association
Parkinson’s Foundation
Video Links:
2016 Stroke Camp for Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital Stroke Support Group
2017 Stroke Camp for Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital Stroke Support Group