Our Services
Pediatric Speech Therapy
Pediatric speech therapy is a service designed to help children develop and improve their communication skills. This type of therapy focuses on a range of speech and language challenges that children may face, such as difficulty with articulation (pronouncing sounds), language development, social communication, fluency (stuttering), and voice disorders.
Through fun, engaging activities tailored to each child’s unique needs, pediatric speech therapy helps children express themselves more clearly and confidently, supporting their success at home, in school, and in social settings.
Adult Speech Therapy
Adult speech therapy is designed to help individuals address speech, language, voice, and communication challenges that may arise due to various factors such as medical conditions, injuries, or aging. Whether it’s difficulty with articulation, fluency (stuttering), voice disorders, cognitive-communication, or swallowing difficulties, adult speech therapy provides personalized treatment to improve communication and quality of life.
Through targeted exercises and strategies, adult speech therapy helps clients regain confidence in their ability to speak clearly and effectively in both personal and professional settings.
Online Speech Therapy
Virtual speech therapy is a modern approach to speech and language treatment delivered through online platforms, such as Zoom. This method allows clients to access high-quality therapy services from anywhere – including the comfort of their home.
Our licensed speech therapists use secure video conferencing platforms to provide personalized therapy sessions that cater to individual needs.
Virtual speech therapy services offer numerous advantages, including:
Creative Learning: Virtual therapy sessions are highly interactive and engaging. We use a variety of digital tools, resources, and activities that keep sessions fun and motivating. From games to interactive exercises, clients enjoy a dynamic learning experience.
Time-Saving Convenience: With virtual therapy, there’s no need to commute. You can easily fit therapy into your schedule without worrying about travel time, making it more convenient for busy lifestyles.
Cost-Effective: By eliminating travel expenses, virtual therapy can save you money. You can focus your resources on the therapy itself, allowing for more frequent sessions and better progress.
Fun with Green Screens: Our virtual sessions can include the fun of using green screens! This feature allows us to create immersive backgrounds and environments tailored to your therapy goals, adding an extra layer of creativity and engagement to your sessions.
Voice
A referral for voice therapy can be initiated by your ENT (Ear, Nose, & Throat Doctor), any healthcare professional, or simply by you! An ENT Doctor will help you determine the specific cause of your voice challenges. Voice disorders may be result of a variety of diagnoses, including damage to your vocal cords from vocal misuse, reflux, or illness. Professional singers & actors may also require voice therapy to maintain the health & function of their voice. TalkInc’s founder, Samantha Berardesca, is a Singing Voice Specialist with extensive background experience as a singer and vocal coach. This professional voice experience is used during voice therapy to help you optimize the tone, pitch, or quality of your voice (e.g., eliminate/reduce harsh, hoarse, or breathy voice). Voice therapy can help you rehabilitate your speaking and/or singing voice to give you the confidence you deserve in any situation – whether it’s professionally, socially, or medically.
HELP ME WITH…
- Nodules
- Polyps
- Cysts
- Muscle Tension Dysphonia
- Voice projection
- Singing Voice Rehabilitation
- Vocal fatigue
- Vocal cord paralysis
- Spasmodic dysphonia
- Puberphonia
- Aging Voice
- Voice quality or pitch modification
- Essential Voice Tremor
- Paradoxical vocal fold motion
- Functional Aphonia
- Sounding better &feeling more confident
Resonance
When we talk, air passes through our mouth and nose. A resonance disorder occurs when there is a change in the way that air flows during the production of speech. This will affect how you sound – either hypernasal (too much air through the nose) or hyponasal (not enough air through the nose). The most common causes include cleft palate and/or neurological disorders. Speech therapy can help you learn to use your tongue, lips and speech muscles correctly to improve your overall speech intelligibility and speaking confidence.
HELP ME…
- Improve my speech clarity
- Reduce hypernasality
- Reduce hyponasality
- Communicate with confidence
English Accent Training
English Accent Training can help you communicate more effectively and efficiently in a variety of settings – both professionally and/or socially.
HELP ME…
- Be better understood by colleagues & strangers
- Speak with confidence in English
- Improve myproduction of English consonants
- Improve my production of English vowels
- Improve my English vocabulary & grammar
- Improve my English sentence phrasing
- Improve my speaking intonation, rhythm, & syllabic stress
Stuttering/ Cluttering
Stuttering refers to the smoothness of your speech. Fluency therapy can help you improve the forward flow of your speech, reduce the primary behaviours of stuttering, and reduce/eliminate unhelpful beliefs that lead you to restrict participation in your own life – such as answering the phone, ordering a meal, answering/asking questions, giving presentations, or avoiding social or professional interactions or events.
Cluttering refers to a rapid rate of speech, erratic rhythm, and poor grammar. These challenges make it difficult for you to be clearly understood.
HELP ME…
- Improve my speaking confidence
- Stop avoiding speaking situations because of my stutter
- Reduce or eliminate speech sound prolongations (e.g., “ssssssspeech”)
- Reduce or eliminate speech sound repetitions (e.g., “s s s speech”)
- Reduce or eliminate speech ‘blocks’ (e.g., “—–speech”)
- Reduce or eliminate secondary behaviours (e.g., stomping feet, eye blinking, etc.)
- Control my speech in different situations
WHY START NOW?
Participating in Speech, Language, Accent, Voice, and/or Resonance therapy can help your communication skills thrive! Therapy can help you maximize your communication potential across a variety of settings. Whether you’re communicating in a professional workplace context – such as presentations, meetings, demonstrations, classrooms, & phone calls – or socially with family & friends, together we will enhance your communication skills to express what it means to be ‘you’ in the healthiest, most individualized way possible.
Green Screen Gallery
Check out our Green Screen Gallery – a collection of green screens that were designed to meet the unique needs of each of our clients! Each green screen activity was uniquely created to target a variety of goals for a variety of different ages. From toddlers who aren’t yet talking, to school-age children who have difficulty formulating language, to children with articulation needs – each green screen is an interactive experience designed to teach speech-language concepts and achieve communication goals. This gallery is just a sampling of the many ways TalkInc individualizes the therapy experience to meet the needs of each child.
