I've heard of speech therapy for kids!! But speech therapy for adults???

What is it like?

Evaluation

1) We have a CONVERSATION about:

• what is your communication problem? what is your swallowing problem?
• the impact it has on your life
• strategies you are using or have tried already
• your strengths
• your goals & priorities
• your values
• your life activities (ones you must do, ones you like to do, ones you would like to get back to doing, etc.). 

​2) I collect some MEASUREMENTS & DATA

3) We CREATE GOALS together based on what is important to you. These will be our roadmap!!!

4) We will talk about the 4 PILLARS OF ADULT SPEECH THERAPY. These are the ingredients to successful therapy, and we will have to keep track of these throughout our time together. Therapy must be:

• Doable
• Sustainable
• Useful
• Safe (Physically, Emotionally)

Therapy

1) In-session activities

• Exercise, practice with techniques and devices / equipment
• Re-creating communication scenarios
• Troubleshooting
• Emotional support
• Strategizing on how to get over inertia to help you really get on the path toward changing the behaviors you want to change

2) Out-of-session activities

• Let's please not call these homework!!! Haha
• Most of your time is out in the real world and not with me. We need to have a specific way for you to practice what we do together in-session when you are going about your daily life
• Sometimes this means setting aside time to exercise, sometimes it is integrating techniques into your daily activities

​3) Figuring out when you are ready to keep growing on your own

• One of of our goals is always to help you and those around you know how to support you as you continue to make changes once we feel you no longer need to see me on a frequent basis.