Telepractice: Online Speech Therapy Services Speech telepractice uses a computer with a video connection to provide online speech therapy in your home, at a daycare, or at your child's school. We work with preschoolers, school-aged children, adolescents, and adults. WCGH is recognized nationally as a leader for web-based speech telepractice services. We have developed competencies for therapists and our e-helpers. We provide training at state and national levels. WCGH is linked and collaborates with other national pioneers in providing speech telepractice services. Our therapists meet the professional requirements of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association for the knowledge and skills needed to provide clinical services by telepractice. We have trained many e-helpers and have teacher and parent testimonials discussing the quality of our services. We are committed to providing speech telepractice with a unique approach: many of our clients receive therapy with more than one therapist! This team approach allows us to offer talents and skills from different therapists to match with your child's unique learning interests and profile. It gives children learning opportunities in multiple contexts, a key to accelerated learning. Bottom line? Children working with a team approach demonstrate more rapid gains in therapy because they practice skills with different teachers. This gives them a big advantage when entering school. They already have developed many of the academic skills needed to be "reading ready". We have been tracking our speech telepractice results with the results of our face-to-face therapy sessions using ASHA NOMS. We are pleased to report that our speech telepractice results match and sometimes exceed those face-to-face services! We will be reporting these results along with lists of competencies in an upcoming book on telepractice. WCGH telepractice therapists are skilled in coaching parents and teachers. The Speech Therapy Department at Waldo County General Hospital is approved to provide online speech therapy through the Maine Department of Human Services' MaineCare program and by many insurance companies. Click here for a brochure with more information about speech telepractice.