Easy Peasy: Essentials for Teletherapy

“Goodbye, I love you!” were the words I heard through my headset as I looked at a beaming face on my computer screen at the end of a productive speech therapy session. Immediately I knew we needed to work on proper greetings! But through that realization, I could also see the joy on this student’s face as he completed another successful speech therapy session.

There are countless studies that prove speech, occupational and physical therapy provided through teletherapy are just as effective as a face to face model. Research even proves students who participate in speech teletherapy “outperform control groups and national benchmarks” (according to Towey, 2013 and Gorgan-Johnson, 2011) in the areas of expressive and receptive language, social pragmatics, and articulation skills.

It doesn’t take much, as far as equipment is concerned, to complete a meaningful teletherapy session. Here are the essentials:

• Internet

• Computer, laptop, or tablet

• Web camera

• Headset with a microphone

Before your first teletherapy session we can do a test run to make sure your equipment is ready and to answer any question you might have. We know you’ll be just as happy with your session at it’s conclusion as our student who exclaimed, “Good bye, I love you!”

Trilogy Therapy is committed to providing related services to rural and hard to access areas where therapists can be difficult to find. We believe no matter where you are, access to therapy should have no boundaries and we are committed to fulfilling this need throughout Wyoming and across our nation.

Click on schedule a demo with Trilogy Therapy today so you can experience how great teletherapy really is!