Speech Therapy Telepractice Connect LIVE right on your computer at home,school or where you work. You only need your computer and internet connection. We provide therapy for children and adults "on the web" for highly stimulating and effective speech therapy. Children and adults work with our therapists right online during to create motivating, authentic individualized treatment. No more boring picture cards! Using our secure telepractice connection, children and adults access their therapy activities from computers, smart phones or tablets 24/7 with parents, teachers, or caregivers for extended practice and learning. This is a new way to provide speech therapy, that in many ways is better than traditional table top therapy. You can see data about telepractice results here or click here to see a video showing the WCGH telepractice method. Our therapists have provided telepractice to people from more than 40 towns in Maine. Our therapists have provided telepractice therapy to people in Canada, Taiwan, Denmark, India and Russia. As the only Accredited Training Program for speech therapy telepractice in the United States (American Telemedicine Association), you are assured of competent services. WCGH therapists have a national reputation and train other professionals at international and national conferences. WCGH has trained many e-helpers and welcomes teacher and parent testimonials talking about how happy they are with the service and the progress their children make. The right therapist at the right time with the right therapy. Some 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 individual learning interests and diagnosis. It provides learning opportunities in multiple contexts, a key to accelerated learning. Bottom line? Individuals working with a telepractice team approach demonstrate more rapid gains in therapy: they practice skills with different teachers in different settings at different times in a day. We have been tracking our speech telepractice results with the results of our traditional therapy sessions using national standards. We have been happy to learn our telepractice results match and sometimes exceed those traditional services! We will be reporting these results in an upcoming book on telepractice (Springer, 2012). Better than traditional speech therapy. Using a national benchmarks, the results of speech telepractice at WCGH were compared to results of traditional speech therapy from around the country. The table below shows the results of speech telepractice for children ages 3-5. WCGH telepractice therapists are also skilled in coaching parents and teachers. Click here for a brochure with more information about speech telepractice.