Teletherapy Overview
Teletherapy uses your computer and a video connection, to provide speech therapy in your home. This connects our services to your home and eliminates barriers created by distance, travel costs, weather and scheduling. Click here for a brochure with more information about telepractice for speech therapy for children or telepractice for voice therapy for adults.
Therapists are skilled in coaching parents and teachers and also providing direct therapy using online video connections in your home or school.
The Speech Therapy Department at Waldo County General Hospital is approved to provide teletherapy through the Maine Department of Human Services’ MaineCare program and by many insurance companies. Our therapists meet the professional requirements of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association for the knowledge and skills needed to provide clinical services by teletherapy. Utilizing research-based approaches and state-of-the-art technology, our therapists are among the leaders in the United States providing these services. Making a teletherapy connection from your home computer is easy with an inexpensive web camara (standard on many computers) and our high security hosted web site. We'll show you how! Connections are available at no cost. Contact us for more information. |