Speech and Language Pathology Services

Care for Speech, Language, Hearing, Balance, Feeding, and Swallowing Disorders

Treatments

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  Auditory perceptual evaluation
• Auditory-verbal therapy
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  Flow phonation
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  Lee Silverman Voice Therapy (LSVT)
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  Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT®)
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  Pronouncing English as a Second Language (PESL)
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  Respiratory retraining
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  School Age Speech and Language Clinic
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  Vocal hygiene
  
  

Locations

Providers

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  Courtney M. Andrews, SLP
• Teresa D. Boggs, SLP
• Kristy S. Eisenzopf, SLP
• Lindsay P. Greer, SLP
• Marie A. Johnson, SLP
• Jennifer L. Quillen, SLP

Services

• The Positive Eating Program

  The Positive Eating Program is designed for children with behavioral and sensory based feeding challenges including children with and without specific medical diagnosis. The goals of the program are to increase food awareness, decrease anxiety to new food textures and types, provide consistent and appropriate mealtime behaviors and for comprehensive parent training and collaboration to facilitate generalization of new feeding behaviors across context. Additionally, participation in cultivating a vegetable garden exposes children to different sensory experiences and foods. The program is appropriate for infants to elementary school.
• Adult Speech & Language Clinic

  This clinic focuses on the evaluation and treatment of the young adult, adult and geriatric populations with speech, language and/or cognitive disorders. Clinicians use standardized and non-standardized assessments and a variety of evidence based techniques to help their clients maximize functional communication and daily living independence. Select clinicians are also certified in Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT).
• School-Age Speech & Language Clinic

  The ETSU School-Age Speech and Language Clinic provides specialized evaluation and treatment for preschool-school-aged children with communication disorders. The premise of the School-Age Speech and Language clinic is to provide direct services using naturalistic interactions and evidence-based interventions to best support client and family needs.  Furthermore, the clinic highly values family support and training to facilitate generalization of skills. The School-Age Speech and Language Clinic addresses the needs of children in the following areas, including but not limited to: speech sound disorders, language based disorders, literacy based language disorders, social communication challenges, and use of augmentative-alternative communication.
• Gary Shealy Memorial ALS Clinic

  The Gary Shealy Memorial ALS Clinic is an interprofessional clinic that aims to address the complex needs of adults with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). This once-monthly clinic serves as a place where people with ALS can see a variety of medical and rehabilitation professionals.  Recommendations and referrals are made regarding strategies to help patients maintain safety and independence as well as for necessary equipment and/or procedures. 

  Please visit the ALS Clinic webpage for more information.

• Neonatal High-Risk Follow-up Clinic

  The NICU High-Risk Follow-up Clinic is an interprofessional clinic focused on holistic assessment of infants and toddlers discharged from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Niswonger Children’s Hospital. The purpose of the clinic is early identification of developmental and health concerns and appropriate referral to medical specialists and intervention services in families’ local communities.

  
  The interprofessional assessment team includes: SLP, Audiology, PT, Nutrition, Nursing, and Neonatology.
  The team conducts a holistic evaluation through medical chart review, interview, observation, and use of standardized assessment tools. For example, the speech-language pathologist examines the domains of receptive and expressive communication, cognition, social-emotional, and adaptive behavior skills using the Developmental Assessment of Young Children-2.

  
  This clinic addresses infants and toddlers, aged 0-24 months, with a wide-range of developmental profiles and health challenges, including:

  • Typical development, with catch-up growth associated with prematurity
  • Swallowing and feeding disorders
  • Developmental delays and disorders
  • Genetic syndromes
  • Musculoskeletal disorders
  • Neonatal abstinence syndrome

  
  The clinic is held at ETSU Pediatrics.

• Social Group Clinic

  ETSU’s Speech and Language Clinic provides evaluation and treatment for children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder to enhance social pragmatic skills. Treatment for social communication capitalizes strengths of each individual while addressing weaknesses related to social interaction. Treatment strategies in a social group clinic focus on increasing active engagement amongst peers, building independence in natural communication environments, and generalization of these skills outside of a therapy setting. Social group clinic recognizes the importance of involving the individual and the family to enhance functional outcomes. Social group clinics at ETSU typically consist of 2-4 individuals of a similar age with social communication deficits. ETSU’s Speech and Language Clinic provides social group clinics for children between the ages of 3 and 16. Some of our treatment methods include social stories, social scripts, and video modeling.

• Telehealth Clinic

  The Telehealth Clinic within the ETSU Speech Language and Hearing Clinic focuses on the evaluation and treatment speech, language and/or cognitive disorders in the adult population. This clinic was design to serve those who do not have access to a qualified Speech-Language Pathologist due to geographic, physical or social reasons. Clinicians are housed within the ETSU Speech Language and Hearing Clinic while clients are at a remote site (e.g., their homes, rural health office). Clinical services are provided in real time via a secure video chat platform.

• Auditory-Verbal Therapy Clinic

  Aural rehabilitation services are provided for individuals across the lifespan who are deaf or hard of hearing. These services are appropriate for individuals seeking intervention to “relearn” listening and language skills, following a hearing loss that occurred after development of language skills, with the assistance of hearing technology. A variety of modalities and evidence-based strategies may be used to improve communication skills through these intervention services.

Why ETSU Health?

The SLP program serves as a center for excellence in providing direct clinical services and community education and outreach programs. Through these activities, the program strives to improve the quality of life for individuals affected by speech, language, hearing and balance challenges across the life span.

Billing & Financial Assistance

Insurance Patients: The clinic accepts private insurance including Medicare and Medicaid. The patient is responsible for checking with their insurance plan if their plan covers evaluations and treatment at our clinic, including getting prior authorization if the need be. Medicare and Medicaid patients must have a physician referral in order for the clinic to bill your insurance. If you do not have a physician referral, you will be responsible for the billed charges if they are denied by your insurance company. Insurance patients will receive a statement after the insurance has processed the claim

Cash Pay Patients: Patients without insurance selecting the cash pay program may also be eligible for a sliding fee scale based upon their annual income. In order to be eligible, patients must apply for a sliding fee scale by completing a Fee Assistance Form. Please contact Janine Weeks by emailing weeksj@etsu.edu or calling (423) 439-4355.

The Clinic shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operation. Clients have the right to file a complaint against the Clinic or the Department of Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology through the Council of Academic Accreditation of the American Speech Language Hearing Association. Learn more about the complaint process.