Adult Speech and
Language Therapy
Life as a deaf or hard of hearing person in a hearing world takes extra effort every day. But with a plan and steadfast support from CHC’s speech-language clinicians, it doesn’t have to be a struggle.
Services for Adults
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Speech and voice evaluation
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Adult audiology services coordination
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Auditory training and speech and communication therapy
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Post-cochlear implant rehabilitation therapy
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Speechreading training
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Short Course: Communicating Better with Hearing Loss
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Support groups
Speech Therapy
Adults with hearing loss who have improved their communication skills report additional benefits that include improved relationships with families and co-workers; better self-esteem; improved mental health, and greater independence and security.
Auditory Therapy
The goal of an auditory-therapy program is for a hard or hearing or deaf adult to make the best use of whatever hearing they have also known as their residual hearing. This individualized program may be recommended if:
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Your audiologist has told you that your word recognition skills are poorer than would be expected based on your audiogram
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You have essentially good listening skills in quiet settings, but experience inordinate difficulty comprehending speech from a distance or in the presence of background noise
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You are experiencing difficulty adjusting to the use of a hearing aid or cochlear implant
Speech and Language Evaluation/ Therapy
Individual speech and/or language therapy may be needed by those individuals who were born with a hearing loss or who have experienced long-standing early-onset hearing loss. The focus of this program is to improve an individual’s oral language skills and may include:
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Vocabulary development and usage
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Voice production
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Articulation improvement
Speechreading (or lipreading) Therapy
“Learning to speech read has improved my life! I truly could not exist in the environment that I live in without speechreading along with my aided hearing.” – CHC Client
People with all degrees of hearing loss can discover better communication by learning to speech read (also known as lipread). Working one-on-one as well as in a group setting, an expert from the CHC team can help you to decipher sounds and conversation cues by observing a person’s mouth, facial expressions, and gestures.
Contact us at agibbs@chchearing.org to see if speechreading could help you connect to life. Certain private and government insurance plans provide coverage for speechreading therapy.