At-Home Speech Therapy Service

What is home speech therapy?

Home speech therapy sessions are when the speech pathologist conducts sessions for treating speech, speech and cognition problems at the patient’s home through home visits at specific pre-agreed dates. The average number of sessions ranges from (2-3) sessions per week, and one session lasts a period ranging from (45-60) minutes. Raising cognitive awareness, and modifying some wrong behaviors that the child may perform.

Speech Pathologist

He is a specialized person who combines medical science, behavioral science, and education, and his role is to treat problems of speech, pronunciation, swallowing, and cognitive delays. The role of the speech therapist can be summarized in the following points:

1. Diagnosis and assessment of the patient’s condition
2. Prepare an appropriate treatment plan that varies from person to person based on their condition
3. Implementation of treatment plan
4. Provide the patient with many useful tips
5. Assign the patient to perform many different activities and tasks that increase the effectiveness of the treatment
6. Continuous evaluation during the treatment journey to ensure its feasibility
7. Cooperating with the family by giving advice and instructions to deal with the patient so that the treatment plan goes in one direction without conflicting with the specialist and the family

Cases That Require Home Speech Therapy

The speech pathologist treats many diseases and conditions through home speech sessions, the most prominent of which are:

First: Treatment of various speech disorders

• Speech or pronunciation problems
• Audio problems such as roughness or smoothness
• Language problems
• Swallowing problems
• Perception problems such as attention, memory, etc.

Second: Treatment of people with hearing disabilities 

Speech-language pathologists help people with hearing disabilities by treating speech delays or incorrect pronunciation, as a result of not hearing well for the family and the surrounding environment.

Third: Treating a patient who is completely unable to speak

Provide an appropriate means of communication between the patient who is unable to speak and others, such as drawing a board containing some of the daily tasks and various life skills that the individual performs in order to facilitate communication with others.

Fourth: Treatment of Newborns

Speech sessions at home work to correct the way newborns breastfeed and swallow.

Fifth: Treatment of speech and language problems in children

Speech sessions at home work to treat many speech problems in childhood, the most important of which are:

• Treatment of voice disorders
• Treatment of language disorders
• Treatment of speech disorders and inability to speak properly
• Stuttering Treatment
• Treatment of autism problems
• Treatment of Down syndrome and other problems

Sixth: Treatment of speech and language problems in adults

Speech sessions at home work to treat many speech problems in old age, the most important of which are:

• Treatment of speech disorders (stuttering)
• Treatment of language disorders caused by hearing impairment
• Treatment of voice loss due to laryngectomy
• Dementia treatment
• Treatment of Parkinson’s disease and others

Features of Home Speech Therapy Service by Dr.  Moamen Nada Center

• Provide male and female professional cadres specialized in the field of speech therapy, who are highly experienced, professional and efficient
• Save a lot of money in going to specialized centers
• Work on communicating with family and families in order to create a good environment for correcting the behavior of the patient
• Developing an excellent treatment plan according to prior studies and strategies so that the treatment plan is successfully completed and the desired goal reached as soon as possible
• Dealing with each case separately, there is no single method of treatment; People with speech problems are not people with voice or language problems
• Encouraging the patient to communicate effectively with the surrounding environment even if he is unable to speak
• Working on developing many different skills, the most important of which is swallowing, and the way words come out properly
• Contribute to the modernization of the surrounding environment and make it more suitable for the patient’s condition

Price of Home Speech Sessions

There are now many home medical services companies and centers in Egypt that provide speech and language therapy services at home through Providing home visits by a specialist and speech therapist.

The average cost of home speech therapy sessions in Egypt

The prices of a home speech therapy vary according to several factors, as follows:

1. Patient’s condition
2. Number of sessions needed for the case
3. Session duration
4. Geographical location of the patient’s home
5. Service provider of your choice; there are many centers that exaggerate the cost of the service
6.  The presence of any kind of special requests in your choice of service provider