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 Speech telehealth technology helps improve patients' speech
The Visiting Nurse Service of New York has introduced one of the country's first speech pathology telehealth services. This innovative technology allows our speech therapy clinicians to deliver -- from within our VNSNY's offices -- speech-related services to patients in their homes.
Speech pathology telehealth uses state-of-the-art technology to deliver speech related clinical services. The technology includes a small video screen, camera and speakerphone, which is provided by VNSNY and placed in the patient's home at no cost to the patient. The connection is made when the VNSNY speech clinical specialist places a phone call to the patient, and within 60 seconds after pressing a button, the clinician and patient see and hear each other through the video screen and speakerphone. The therapy session, which lasts 30 minutes and are provided in addition to home visits by the speech pathologist, may include oral motor exercises to improve the range of motion and strengthen the lips, tongue and jaw; articulation drills to improve speech clarity, exercises for voice improvement including rate, loudness and pitch exercises; language stimulation activities; pre-feeding swallowing exercises; and/or review of home exercise plan with the patient and/or caregiver. Each therapy session is designed to meet the specific needs of the patient's speech-language or swallowing disorder.
VNSNY speech language therapists in Manhattan, Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn as well as Westchester and Nassau Counties are using the speech telehealth technology to deliver speech related clinical services from their offices to patients in their homes.
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