No, speech therapy telehealth is currently used for many Australian’s and international families. They have traditionally been particularly used for families living in remote and rural communities hence allowing them to access much needed allied health services. For example, although 30% of Australians live in rural areas, only 4.5% of Speech Pathologists provide services in those areas.

Our Telehealth provides a solution for people in rural communities to provide access to the services that they need. 

Although it is a relatively new way of delivering services, it is well researched. It has been shown to be an effective way to deliver allied health services such as speech pathology and occupational therapy.

SpeechNet can offer all services within our clinic services over telehealth. This includes all communication, learning, literacy (spelling, reading and writing), understanding, late talking, feeding, speech clarity, stuttering and twin therapy over telehealth. Our clinicians are experienced and currently deliver all services mentioned above for clients in regional and/or rural communities. We can offer flexible and reliable services with amazing outcomes for services. We use a wide variety of methods to ensure we are providing the right services to you and your child. These include:

Here at SpeechNet we have been using telehealth services to provide delivery to some truly active regional/rural little clients. 

You’d be surprised at how good we are at keeping and getting the child’s attention over Skype! What we’ve seen is that using a computer is a novel way of learning for some individuals, so working through a computer, iPad or phone can increase their attention during the telehealth session! 

We have heaps of experience to help gain the child’s interest via the computer screen; but do you know it is still play with toys that gets the progress for the young ones. For the young and old we share games and activities between the clinician’s and child/parent’s home screen; and/or we demonstrate the activity and then the parent or carer tries it while the clinician is watching to give feedback and suggests to improve performance.

Don’t think of the child sitting at the computer

Think about it like we are sitting next to you guys as you play or interact with your child but it’s just our face and not our whole body. We can then “move” around with you if you are using a mobile device like a phone. We can even do sessions outside if you use a mobile device for young and active children.