Services

Examinations

  • Perceptual-acoustic speech-voice-language evaluation: Assessing skills and taking speech samples and state-of-the-art computer measurements

  • Perceptual-acoustic fluency evaluation: Assessing skills and taking speech samples

  • Swallow evaluation: Assessing skills during eating and drinking

Areas of specialty

  • Voice disorders, including laryngitis, vocal fold nodules, muscle tension dysphonia, and many other issues

  • Gender affirming voice and other gender-related voice and communication concerns

  • Professional voice, including acting, singing, or high vocal demand in a variety of jobs

  • Upper airway issues, such as cough, throat clearing, breathing, and snoring

  • Aging effects on voice, speech, and swallowing

  • Stuttering, including obtaining and using the SpeechEasy fluency device

  • Accent modification, including linguistic error analysis in relation to Standard American English

  • Public speaking and confident speaking

  • Neurological illnesses that affect speech, voice, language, and swallowing, such as Parkinson's

Age range

  • Teens, adults, and seniors (65+)

Speaking engagements

  • Gender affirming voice topics to community, professional, and student groups

  • Vocal health topics to community and professional groups

Individual and group sessions

  • Individual: Rehabilitative therapy, gender affirming voice training, and professional training

  • Group: Gender affirming voice workshops

Online sessions available

  • Individual sessions when appropriate

  • Regulated by telepractice licensure law with some special allowances due to the pandemic; clients located in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania are automatically eligible; some clients located elsewhere may also be eligible

  • Platforms hosted: Zoom, Doxy.me, Skype, Webex, Facetime; other platforms may be possible if hosted by the client

Time and financial commitment

  • Depending on the exam, the first consultation is 60-90 minutes and therapy/training sessions are 45 minutes.

  • Therapy/training typically occurs 1x/wk and then less often as you progress. The length of an intervention period varies widely depending on the issue and the individual case.

  • In addition to attending regular sessions, you typically will be expected to practice exercises daily and be mindful of speaking techniques when interacting with others.

  • Fees are discussed upon request.

  • All sessions are in-network with Medicare, and out-of-network with Medicare Advantage and all other private insurances. If you do not have Medicare, you would be expected to pay out-of-pocket at the time of each session, and receipts and documentation are provided to you upon request for you to submit to your insurance company for possible reimbursement. If you pay out-of-pocket, you may also request a Good Faith Estimate of the amount of the entire treatment at any time.