Speech Pathology practice focusing on Voice, Cough, Globus and Upper Airway Breathing Disorders

Based in North Brisbane, Teletherapy available
Commencing Services in April 2021

Initial Assessment: $220
Includes 1 hour 15 min Face - Face* or via telehealth.

• Comprehensive Case History You will be sent an online questionnaire to complete beforehand and key points will be clarified discussed in the face-face session e.g:
  • When did the difficulties start, are they getting better or worse, any likely exacerbating factors (e.g. a cold, dusty environment, having to talk over background noise)?
  • What are you able to do with your voice, what are you avoiding, what is impossible?
  • What symptoms are most concerning for you?
• Perceptual and Instrumental Voice Assessment
  • We will ask you to make specific sounds, read sentences and talk about every subjects. These are designed to help determine what is contributing to the voice difficulties, what might provide immediate relief and what might provide long term improvement.
  • We analyse voice recordings using spectrogram programs to get measures of pitch, roughness, breathiness, tremor, instability.
• Breathing, posture, muscular assessment
  • We also observe your body to look at the breathing patterns (upper chest vs lower chest vs abdominal), your posture and if there is excessive use of the muscles surrounding your voice box.
• Trials of Massage and Therapy Exercises
  • These will vary according to the underlying diagnosis and what emerges through the assessment.

- Report to GP and Specialists - This will be completed by the end of the SECOND session, unless required after the first session. This allows further information to be gained about response to the therapy which can be useful if there are any questions about the diagnosis.

Ongoing Therapy Sessions $140
45 mins Face-Face* or via Tele-health
- further therapy building on the successes of previous sessions
- problem solving around any difficulties encountered
- all therapy exercises provided in writing

*For children, the time may be broken up into a shorter session with the child and a follow up session with the parents via phone or tele-health. This will be negotiated during the booking or the first appointment.