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Speech Therapy Sessions for Adults with Hearing Loss
Have you always wanted to pronounce with more clarity and build your oral communication? Or maybe you’ve just upgraded your hearing aids to the newest whizz bang model and are surprised to hear yourself speaking now after noticing that your sounds and even voice could be clearer?
Speechaus provides speech therapy for adults Australia-wide; from centre to coast.
Our team of speech pathologists focuses solely on strategic speech therapy sessions for adults. Over the years we’ve built up a lot of skill after working with many adults with hearing impairment to up level their voice quality, speech precision and even vocal pitch and volume control.
The unique thing about Speechaus is that we only work alongside adults.
We choose to focus on relevant and appropriate therapy for adults. You should feel affirmed in sessions and the first step for that is to enter an adult-focused clinic.
And to top it off, as speech pathologists we’re qualified to target multiple goals that you might have for your communication.
Our Speech Assessment for Adults with Hearing Loss is the first step.
Your assessment will occur online, we want to ensure that quality speech therapy is available to you no matter where you’re based geographically in Australia.
SPEECHAUS’ exclusive focus on adult patients allows us to offer approachable and inspiring sessions that foster a sense of well-being and self-assurance.
We are one of the few speech pathology clinics that offers speech therapy in Australia that is accessible in every region and structured for adults solely.
This makes our clinic the perfect choice if you are looking for a confidence boosting spot to work on your social communication. All of our approaches are geared to adults, and being completely online makes it easier to fit sessions into your schedule. You don’t want to visit a clinic with lots of toys, kids picture books and a paediatric focus if your goals are real life adult needs!
Our Values
Advocacy
We advocate for everyone’s right to be heard irrespective of their communication barriers, identity, diagnosis, geographic location, language background or social status.
Experience
Since our time on earth is limited, we believe that all experiences, especially clinical/ therapy experiences should balance challenges with enjoyment. We are agile and strive to create engaging experiences for your communication and speaking goals that are more likely to stimulate concrete outcomes.
Empowerment
We believe that focusing on building strengths, even in the face of communication barriers and disadvantage, is the only way to transform lives.
Speech Therapy for Hearing Loss in Adults
Our Speech Assessment for Hearing Loss is suited to adults with hearing loss managed by hearing aids or cochlear implants and is your first step to addressing your concerns.
Our speech pathologists will investigate your speech pronunciation, voice and social communication.
You’re welcome to bring an Auslan interpreter to your initial assessment session and sessions thereafter. This is optional, however, according to your preference.
This session is the chance for you to share your global communication concerns with your clinician. We’ll identify core strategies to be addressed with you in ensuing social communication therapy sessions. Following your session, the clinician will block out time to complete a comprehensive assessment report to outline findings, strategies moving forward and recommendations for any NDIS plan reviews you need.
We work with NDIS Self Managed and NDIS Plan Managed clients.
Please contact our clinic first for preparation of your service agreement prior to commencement.
Rebates may be available for these sessions.
We welcome referrals from allied health service providers and general practitioners for speech pathology treatment for adults with autism or social communication concerns. Click here to read more about referrals.
Speech Therapy Assessment For Adults With Hearing Loss
The First Step to Clarity & Impact
$250
Individually tailored clinical communication assessment is undertaken by one of our speech pathologists.
This assessment session is suited to clients with:
- Hearing Loss
Every Assessment includes:
- Case history interview to determine the history of communication concerns and impacts.
- Assessment into core communication environments impacted.
- Careful consideration of your current communication needs, workplace setting, career aspirations, areas of concern.
✪ The session fee includes written correspondence with medical practitioners, analysis of our findings and planning of your therapy sessions.
This fee does not include a report, which you may request in addition. Due to the time involved in writing a comprehensive report, an extra fee will apply. Please advise your clinician if you would like a report.
Please allow 45 minutes for this session. If you have questions about this service, please contact our helpful reception team.
What the Assessment Investigates
This consultation is the perfect fit for clients who have concerns about some or all of the following:
- How to speak clearer
- How to actually pronounce sounds that you find challenging
- How to get more accuracy in everyday speaking
- How to improve your communication in ways that are more practical than the speech therapy you received as a kid
- Strategies for building up your public speaking success so you can present independently without an interpreter
- Voice projection
Increasing your participation in work meetings - Increase and maintain relationships
- Rapport building strategies and approaches for improved conversations
- Creating small talk and conversation
- Building relationships, forming friendships & interpersonal relationships
- Uncertainty about how to behave socially &/or anxiety about how to interact with people
- Difficulties expressing or sharing your feelings or mood with the right words
- Severe difficulties entering a group setting
- Problems turn-taking when having conversations
- Voice expression strategies so you can reflect your message with the right tone of voice more effectively
- Applying self-advocacy strategies to promote your comfort and success in social and professional situations.
Book Your Appointment
Want to get your training started? The first appointment to book is Your Diagnostic Speech Assessment for Adults with Hearing Loss. Click the button below to select a time for your first appointment. This will take you to our online booking site.
What happens after the Assessment?
Choose Your Speech Pathology for Hearing Loss Program
Once your assessment session is completed you can proceed directly into your speech therapy with our team.
We’ll create practical speech therapy targets alongside you to proactively address your communication precision, speech accuracy, intonation, and vocal function and health for daily life with the aim of reducing challenges caused by your hearing loss.
Our speech pathologists can also help you with social skills and tips to help with your social life, family life or even during everyday activities in public. This may involve strategies around networking, making small talk, getting the conversation going, joining groups, self-advocacy and pragmatic gestures around persuasiveness, diplomacy and assertiveness when communicating.
We can’t wait to start working on your goals!
The exact content of therapy sessions will vary significantly depending on what your goals are. We tailor our sessions to your needs so that you get the most out of our sessions. Goals in this area can take time to implement so it is important to us that we are targeting areas that you are motivated to improve.
Case study
A number of our clients with hearing loss have expressed that, before attending sessions, the role of speech pathology for people with hearing loss often feels quite mysterious. Here is a case study of a Speechaus client to provide some insights. For privacy reasons, we’ll call this client Claire.
Claire attended an initial assessment with a Speechaus clinician following a recommendation from her audiologist. The session was conducted online, so Claire could connect her hearing aids to her computer audio and activate captions in the video call. Claire explained that she wasn’t sure what a speech pathologist could do for her, especially considering she couldn’t hear the features of her voice, which led her audiologist to make the referral.
Following a case history discussion and some assessment tasks, Claire’s speech pathologist shared information about Claire’s speech sounds and voice tone, taking the time to explain what these mean, how they are related to her hearing loss and how these contribute to the situations Claire had described people not understanding her speech. Next, the discussion shifted to the types of therapy recommended for Claire and whether these matched Claire’s personal and professional goals. Claire’s clinician took notes on the screen and drew diagrams to make the information more accessible. Claire decided she was interested in pursuing therapy, so her clinician booked weekly sessions for her.
In Claire’s first treatment, her clinician described the recommended action plan to address her goals in an order that would promote the best outcomes; in Claire’s case, starting with voice therapy and then moving on to speech-sound targets was most advisable, and her clinician explained the reasons behind this. Claire was happy with this plan, and in that same session, she began learning some vocal exercises.
Claire’s clinician gave instructions based on physical sensations that Claire could use to feel whether she was completing the exercises correctly. Claire found this extremely helpful because it allowed her to focus on the vibratory sensations to aim for.
Claire reported feeling pleased that she had followed her audiologist’s recommendations to access speech pathology services and feels her understanding and confidence increases with each session.
Thanks to her voice therapy sessions and home practice, she now notices that her voice doesn’t wear out on work days like it used to, she can project better in business meetings, and listeners don’t ask her to repeat herself as much as before.
If you, like Claire, are unsure if and how speech pathology can help you work towards your goals, an assessment session with one of our skilled clinicians is the best way to open up the conversation, gain insights into your communication challenges and discover whether this branch of healthcare is right for you.
Case Study
A number of our clients with hearing loss have expressed that, before attending sessions, the role of speech pathology for people with hearing loss often feels quite mysterious.
Here is a case study of a Speechaus client to provide some insights. For privacy reasons, we’ll call this client Claire.
Claire attended an initial assessment with a Speechaus clinician following a recommendation from her audiologist. The session was conducted online, so Claire could connect her hearing aids to her computer audio and activate captions in the video call. Claire explained that she wasn’t sure what a speech pathologist could do for her, especially considering she couldn’t hear the features of her voice, which led her audiologist to make the referral.
Following a case history discussion and some assessment tasks, Claire’s speech pathologist shared information about Claire’s speech sounds and voice tone, taking the time to explain what these mean, how they are related to her hearing loss and how these contribute to the situations Claire had described people not understanding her speech. Next, the discussion shifted to the types of therapy recommended for Claire and whether these matched Claire’s personal and professional goals. Claire’s clinician took notes on the screen and drew diagrams to make the information more accessible. Claire decided she was interested in pursuing therapy, so her clinician booked weekly sessions for her.
In Claire’s first treatment, her clinician described the recommended action plan to address her goals in an order that would promote the best outcomes; in Claire’s case, starting with voice therapy and then moving on to speech-sound targets was most advisable, and her clinician explained the reasons behind this. Claire was happy with this plan, and in that same session, she began learning some vocal exercises.
Claire’s clinician gave instructions based on physical sensations that Claire could use to feel whether she was completing the exercises correctly. Claire found this extremely helpful because it allowed her to focus on the vibratory sensations to aim for.
Claire reported feeling pleased that she had followed her audiologist’s recommendations to access speech pathology services and feels her understanding and confidence increases with each session.
Thanks to her therapy sessions and home practice, she now notices that her voice doesn’t wear out on work days like it used to, she can project better in business meetings, and listeners don’t ask her to repeat herself as much as before.
If you, like Claire, are unsure if and how speech pathology can help you work towards your goals, an assessment session with one of our skilled clinicians is the best way to open up the conversation, gain insights into your communication challenges and discover whether this branch of healthcare is right for you.
Claire attended an initial assessment with a Speechaus clinician following a recommendation from her audiologist. The session was conducted online, so Claire could connect her hearing aids to her computer audio and activate captions in the video call. Claire explained that she wasn’t sure what a speech pathologist could do for her, especially considering she couldn’t hear the features of her voice, which led her audiologist to make the referral.
Following a case history discussion and some assessment tasks, Claire’s speech pathologist shared information about Claire’s speech sounds and voice tone, taking the time to explain what these mean, how they are related to her hearing loss and how these contribute to the situations Claire had described people not understanding her speech. Next, the discussion shifted to the types of therapy recommended for Claire and whether these matched Claire’s personal and professional goals. Claire’s clinician took notes on the screen and drew diagrams to make the information more accessible. Claire decided she was interested in pursuing therapy, so her clinician booked weekly sessions for her.
In Claire’s first treatment, her clinician described the recommended action plan to address her goals in an order that would promote the best outcomes; in Claire’s case, starting with voice therapy and then moving on to speech-sound targets was most advisable, and her clinician explained the reasons behind this. Claire was happy with this plan, and in that same session, she began learning some vocal exercises.
Claire’s clinician gave instructions based on physical sensations that Claire could use to feel whether she was completing the exercises correctly. Claire found this extremely helpful because it allowed her to focus on the vibratory sensations to aim for.
Claire reported feeling pleased that she had followed her audiologist’s recommendations to access speech pathology services and feels her understanding and confidence increases with each session.
Thanks to her therapy sessions and home practice, she now notices that her voice doesn’t wear out on work days like it used to, she can project better in business meetings, and listeners don’t ask her to repeat herself as much as before.
If you, like Claire, are unsure if and how speech pathology can help you work towards your goals, an assessment session with one of our skilled clinicians is the best way to open up the conversation, gain insights into your communication challenges and discover whether this branch of healthcare is right for you.
FAQ’s About The Speech Therapy for Hearing Loss
Check below for the frequently asked questions. If you’re feeling confused, don’t worry! You can reach us via the contact page if you’ve got questions.
1. I can’t hear which of my speech sounds aren’t accurate. Is this a problem?
We’re pleased to say that it’s not! The best practice for addressing speech sounds for everyone with or without hearing loss is to focus on physical, tactile sensation cues, so this is how our clinicians will teach you.
2. I had some speech therapy as a child; will this be the same?
Not entirely. Our approach is very different to therapy for children. First of all, we discuss your challenges in relation to your social and professional life as an adult and devise strategies that can fit into a busy schedule. Explanations and practice tasks won’t be disguised as games like when you were younger; instead your clinician will deliver clear instructions in age-appropriate, empowering ways that promote your independence.
3. I already have an audiologist, do I even need a speech pathologist?
Having audiology and speech pathology clinicians on your team is often highly effective. Audiology will help you better hear incoming communication, and speech pathology assists you in better producing your outgoing communication. We promise there’s much more overlap than that, but you can use that simplified model to consider whether you would, in fact, like help in both of those domains rather than only one.
4. I find video calls difficult. Will I be able to access Telehealth sessions?
Video calls naturally present some difficulties, but if we’re honest, so can in-person communication! Many of our clients with hearing loss enjoy activating captions in sessions, following along with visual supports provided by clinicians and connecting their headphones or hearing aids to their computer audio. Most importantly, these sessions are a safe space to practise self-advocacy. Our clinicians are well-practised in adapting to meet your needs, and you’re more than welcome to express if something is or isn’t working for you.
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