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Teletherapy


What is Telepractice? Telespeech? Teletherapy?

• Telepractice offers the potential to extend clinical services to remote, rural, and under-served populations, and to culturally and linguistically diverse populations.
• Teletherapy is the application of speech-language pathology through distant learning.

Innovative Objective
With the shortage of licensed and certified speech-language pathologists (SLPs) continuing to grow, Clinical Communications, L.P. is offering:

• Speech therapy staffing solutions
• Consulting services focusing on development of an internal program

Our Experience
During the 2006-2007 school year, we experienced first-hand that teletherapy is an efficient and effective way to deliver speech therapy to children. Thanks to our generous research partners, we acquired extensive knowledge and familiarity with a variety of equipment, networks, and firewall transversals.

Click Here to read about Teletherapy in Texas Lone Star May 2007

Our Services

• Experienced state licensed and ASHA certified SLPs
• Video conferencing equipment for our SLP
• Broadband connection
• Corporate oversight
• Customized contracts to meet unique needs of our clients

• Tier 1 - Review, Develop, Plan, and Present - Recommendations as to how to integrate teletherapy onto your existing program.
• Tier 2 - Implementation - A training, communication, and troubleshooting package.
• Tier 3 - Monitoring - Assessment of the program and recommendations for corrective actions.

The Motivation
Many facilities are unable to recruit a sufficient number of SLPs to meet the demands. The shortage has affected rural areas disproportionately from their urban counterparts that have the benefit of a larger pool of SLPs from which to draw. Unfortunately, the shortage of SLPs is not temporary.

Almost 50% of licensed SLPs are expected to retire in the next 15 years. Retirements combined with a 5% annual attrition rate due to reasons other than retirement is projected to create a national shortage of more than 57,000 unfilled positions by 2010. (Wright, Cherry; ASHA 2006)

Clinical Communication Consultants
Diana Christiana, M.A.T., CCC-SLP
President / CEO

“As an active member of several state and national organizations interested in technology and video applications in education, I believe with some certainty that teletherapy is on the forefront of being the next delivery model for speech therapy services.”