Services

Clinical Services

• Speech/Language Therapy
  • Provide evaluation and treatment of articulation disorders – How a child pronounces sounds and words
  • Provide evaluation and treatment of language disorders – How a child understands spoken or sign language, as well as expresses ideas
  • Collaborate with audiologists in the assessment and treatment of central auditory processing disorder (CAPD) – “how the central nervous system uses auditory information” (ASHA)
  • Establish augmentative/alternative communication systems – American Sign Language (ASL), Signing Exact English (SEE), or other systems/devices
• Occupational Therapy
  • Develop skills our patients’ need to live life at home, at school, at play and in the community
  • Improve our patients’ physical ability, their fine motor, visual perception, gross motor, motor planning or teach compensatory techniques
  • Include our patients’ families in developing the plan of care and goals, to ensure respect of the family’s cultures and beliefs, and to ensure positive carryover at home
  • Enhance our patients’ engagement in life, through occupation-based therapeutic activities and therapeutic exercises, while addressing their emotional needs 
• Aural (Re)habilitation
  • Development of listening skills through auditory technology
  • Parent training for teaching “listening” in the home environment
  • Development of “early to listen” sounds
  • Use of auditory verbal techniques
• Auditory Equipment Support
  • Monitor the function of the patient’s auditory equipment (sound processor and/or hearing aid)
  • Maintain trouble shooting kits in the clinic (batteries, sound check equipment, etc)
  • Inform parents and make recommendations on non functioning equipment
  • Assist with follow up to audiologist and/or manufacturer on non functioning auditory equipment
• Family Support Group
  • Provide opportunities for families to interact and share experiences
  • Connect families to resources in the community related to hearing loss
  • Educate families on hearing loss by providing guest speakers (audiologists, physicians, teachers, counselors)
  • Arrange family centered events for our patients, their siblings and families to “share life” together (picnics, day in the park, holiday party, etc.)
• Pre/Post Cochlear Implant Counseling
  • Discuss candidacy for CI
  • Review appropriate expectations
  • Overview of pre/post surgery for CI
  • Assist with setting up and keeping necessary pre/post appointments
  • Serve as a liaison between CI Center and family when needed
• Social Services
  • Assist parents with setting up appointments to Audiologists, Pediatric Otolaryngologist, Cochlear Implant Centers
  • Provide hands on guidance with the SSI application process
  • Direct families to appropriate community resources (interpreters, DARS, RDSD, etc.)
  • Provide additional psycho-social support
• Sign Language Classes
  • Signing Exact English (chosen curriculum at the Regional Day School for the Deaf)
  • Taught weekly at Hope by a Teacher of Deaf, provided by RDSD
  • Free and open to the public

Licensed to Practice in the State of Texas

All of our professional staff holds the required credentials authorizing them to practice in the State of Texas.

• Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP)
• Speech-Language Pathology, Assistant (SLP-A)
• Occupational Therapist, Registered (OTRs)
• Certified Occupational Therapy, Assistant (COTA)

“My commitment to the Hope Family is strengthened every time I see our patients sign or utter their first word.”  ━Michelle Treviño, Owner