Speech Therapy | Voice and Swallowing Center | Waldo County General Hospital



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Coaching Videos

1. Response to Coaching (RtC): An Innovative RtI Model. Nathan and Jenn discuss aspects of the RtC coaching model.

2. What is RtC? How does it work? What are the results? Nathan and Jenn give details of how RtC works and the value provided within the coaching process.

3. Coaching and Teamwork. Jessica Wilbur and Erica Ricker discuss their coaching expereinces in this video. They relate the benefits of working as a team in an approach unique to services provided by speech pathologists at WCGH.

4. WCGH's Team Approach to Speech Therapy: Mike discusses the team approach used by WCGH's speech pathologists allowing for authentic treatment with high quality teacher and parent involvement.

5. Family Systems Approach in working with families. Nancy talks about her core beliefs and how we provide therapy at WCGH.

Teletherapy Videos

1. A five-minute introduction to teletherapy services showing examples of two pre school children receiving speech telepractice, from expert speech telepractice therapists. Also, you will hear the reactions from parents about how their children have progressed in telepractice. This video answers the question: How do they do that on a home computer?

2. Our Approach to Telepractice Services: Mike Towey discusses how WCGH approaches telepractice services to assure you receive the highest quality therapy program.

3. How Telepractice Voice Treatment Works Right From Your Home. 
Some people wonder how speech therapy can work, right on their home computer. This video shows our certified therapist demonstrating therapy techniques with a man with Parkinson's disease, right in his home.

4. Teletherapy Session with a Voice Client. This video highlights the effectiveness and benefits of telepractice services.

Literacy Videos

1. Phonological Awareness. Jenn demonstrates several phonological awareness activities in this video.

2. Print Awareness. Jenn targets several print awareness activities within a book share.

3. Language Literacy Activities. Jessie completes a song routine and an alphabet recognition task within an individual therapy session.

4. Explicit Embedded Book Sharing. See one of our therapists working with a preschool child building his early reading and speech skills. This approach assures children with speech problems start school with good talking skills and the reading readiness skills necessary to assure life success. When a child is seen for speech therapy, our therapists make sure your child learns better speech skills and the reading readiness skills that are essential to help parents assure their child's school success.

5. Using Book Sharing As A Therapy Approach. This video shows how books are used as a therapy treatment with preschool children to help them acquire better speech and language skills. This highly specialized treatment approach is routinely used when we work with children in speech therapy. Our skilled therapists have developed easy and simple ways to help parents and teachers learn how to utilize books as a speech treatment approach at home and in the classroom settings.

6. Reading Tips Jenn Whitcomb offers parents some helpful tips and activities for students to maintain and build language literacy skills during vacation.

Voice and Swallowing Videos

1. Erica Ricker discusses Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) research with Parkinson's clients.

2. Irritable Larynx Syndrome & Chronic Cough
. Many people have a cough that just won't seem to go away and continues for months and sometimes years. They've tried everything but nothing seems to help. This video describes chronic cough and successful treatment in a few short visits at the Voice & Swallowing Center of Maine. Treatment is available right at your home computer through the Voice & Swallowing Center's on-line video-telemedicine hook up.

3. Inside the Voice. Utilizing state of the art fiberoptic imaging you see actual vocal folds in motion as a talented vocal performer sings the national anthem. An amazing look inside the voice!

4. Normal Vocal Fold Movement. Using the most advanced fiberoptic video imaging, see how the vocal folds actually move during voice, when coughing, and singing a familiar song. 

Leadership

 
1. Did You Know? In this compelling video we see how global changes in education are challenging students in America to compete for jobs in the future. This video adds a special urgency to the importance of high quality services to children with speech and language needs.




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