We provide speech therapy online for children, adolescents and adults with traumatic brain injury.
We are a registered NDIS provider and use an inclusive approach to therapy, where the person can be in the comfort and familiarity of their own home.
How can speech therapy benefit people with traumatic brain injury?
Speech therapy can provide numerous benefits for individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) by addressing various communication and cognitive challenges they may face. Here are some key ways speech therapy can help:
1. **Improving Communication Skills**: Many individuals with TBI experience difficulties with language, including word-finding problems, slurred speech, or difficulty forming sentences. Speech therapy can help improve these communication skills through targeted exercises and strategies.
2. **Rebuilding Cognitive-Communication Abilities**: TBI can impact cognitive processes such as memory, attention, and problem-solving. Speech therapists use techniques to enhance cognitive-communication skills, helping individuals better understand and produce language, follow conversations, and process information.
3. **Enhancing Social Skills**: Individuals with TBI often struggle with social interactions and may have trouble understanding social cues or maintaining conversations. Speech therapy can focus on social communication skills, helping them navigate interactions more effectively and confidently.
4. **Addressing Swallowing Difficulties**: Some individuals with TBI may experience dysphagia (difficulty swallowing). Speech-language pathologists are trained to assess and treat swallowing disorders, providing strategies to ensure safe eating and drinking.
5. **Rehabilitation of Speech and Language**: For those with aphasia or other speech and language disorders resulting from TBI, speech therapy can offer specific rehabilitation techniques to recover lost skills and improve overall communication.
6. **Providing Family Support and Education**: Speech therapists often work with family members to educate them about the individual’s communication challenges and how to facilitate better communication at home, which can support the recovery process.
7. **Tailored Therapy Plans**: Each TBI case is unique; therefore, speech therapists create individualized therapy plans that cater to the specific needs, goals, and progress of each person, ensuring a personalized approach to rehabilitation.
Overall, speech therapy plays a crucial role in supporting individuals with TBI to regain their communication abilities, improve their quality of life, and facilitate social interactions.
Services for children, adolescents and adults
We have speech therapists who work with children, adolescents and adults, and we have therapists who have experience with traumatic brain injury. Read more about our therapists here.
NDIS registered provider
We are a registered NDIS provider and work with self-managed, plan-managed and agency-managed clients.
If your are an NDIS provider or support coordinator we can provide reliable speech therapy for clients with traumatic brain injury in any location. Refer a client and we’ll connect you to the right clinician.
Is online speech therapy effective?
Yes! A growing body of evidence shows that online delivery of therapy can be as effective as face to face. Online therapy has many other benefits too, including being convenient and accessible for people in regional and rural areas.
How does online speech therapy work?
At Umbo online therapy is not just zoom plus business-as-usual. It’s much more diverse than simply videoconferencing. Umbo therapists provide an individualised approach to each person, using the latest evidence, and a variety of technologies and engagement techniques.
Umbo champions person-centred therapy. It means the person and their family/support people leads the conversation. We believe that the most effective therapy occurs when support is given in the environment where the person lives, learns, works or plays. Therefore we work with the family, and teach skills to you or to other supporters. This means you’re achieving real-life goals, rather than just achieving goals in a clinic.
We are a certified social enterprise helping Australian families access allied health services.