Speech Email

Full video demonstration is available NOW

2010-02-07T11:59:00.001-08:00

We'll today we have added the demonstration video and the latest brochure, and PowerPoint presentation to the website: www.speechemail.com

The program was designed for the speech language pathologist, and since has been talked about in many other areas of therapy; rehab therapists and orthopedic physical therapists are interested in our product as a remote monitoring device and as a way to stay connected to clients after they leave the clinics.

Telespeech services are helping schools, medical centers, rehabilitation hospitals, community health centers, outpatient clinics, universities, clients at home, residential care facilities, and child care centers. This technology is able to function in multi-discipline environments, helping assist therapists in a more timely and efficient manner.

Ultimately, we have designed the therapy monitoring system to accelerate clinicians performance by giving them, access and accountability to clients by monitor the therapy process more frequently, specifically outside the clinics in more natural settings, through the use of SpeechEmail's online network.

For a full demonstration of the network:

go to: www.SpeechEmail.com click the full demonstration link.

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SpeechEmail is Proud to introduce our NEW Online Version

2009-11-17T14:30:00.000-08:00

SpeechEmail is glad to announce the release of the online version of SpeechEmail. This new secure online network is designed to be used as a platform that provides multi-account access and help clinicians enhance the relationship with clients and students. Clinicians can join SpeechEmail and select between three types of memberships from 4 user accounts to 100 user accounts. As a clinician you can send your members/clients an email and offer them the use of the network to record audio or video and provide you with the evidence of their work. The network will help you improve therapy by offering the clients/students a way to be reviewed when they are away from the clinic.

Your client simply log in and then can record their sessions away in their natural setting, and as a clinician you will have the ability to log in from any computer and review your clients/student recorded sessions.

Looking forward to seeing you at the ASHA Convention in New Orleans - Booth # 1527. Also look for our information at the new product display board at the convention.

Jay Bancroft

President

www.speechemail.com

Many are getting ready for ASHA Convention

2009-10-14T14:26:00.000-07:00

ASHA New Orleans convention is coming Nov 19-21 and many are rushing to get thing in order to be there, including myself Booth 1527. We are excited about the convention we are going to showcasing a new product "SpeechEmail" - A Remote Therapy monitoring systems for clients and speech therapists.
This system helps promote acquisition and recovery of communication skills in clinical, educational and natural settings through tele-speech services. Clients can basically utilize their email program to send directly to speech therapist audio recordings of their at home exercises.

This enhances clients’ access to clinicians between sessions. Speech Language Pathologists can review clients’ recorded assignments, sent via e-mail, at your convenience. The system may reduce the need for some face-to-face contact. Speech Therapists can establish maintenance programs after therapy to monitor speech-language gains or conduct generalization probes in naturalistic settings.

Our goal is to support therapists, in helping as many clients as possible with minimal burden on current workload. Speech Email can enables rural/remote clients and those with health concerns or family/work commitments to maintain a more dynamic connection with the service provider.

Jay Bancroft
President
www.SpeechEmail.com
We offer a free 14 day trial.

Fluency Therapists really like SpeechEmail

2009-09-02T18:41:00.000-07:00

I have been contacting many BRS-FD's and they are excited about the benefits of SpeechEmail and how it can help their patients. Therapists can having them work their exercises at home and actually monitor the progress and listen to them via email. The program is allowing patients to give and get feedback remotely from the therapists. We are continuing to build on the progress and are happy to report SpeechEmail.com is planning the ASHA convention and if your a therapist and attending please be on the look out for us. Thanks.

Jay Bancroft
jay@speechemail.com

Speak up! New technology helps Parkinson's patients be heard

2009-08-25T18:25:00.000-07:00

Researchers have developed a new technology that helps Parkinson's patients overcome a tendancy to speak too quietly by playing a recording of ambient sound, which resembles the noisy chatter of a restaurant full of patrons.

"People with Parkinson's disease commonly have voice and speech problems," said Jessica Huber, an associate professor in Purdue's Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences. "At some point in their disease they will have some form of voice or speech disorder that generally occurs a little later in the disease."

Parkinson's affects 1.5 million people in the United States and is one of the most common degenerative neurological diseases. About 89 percent of those with Parkinson's have voice-related change, which is related to how loudly they speak, and about 45 percent have speech-related change, or how clearly they speak.

"A major therapy is to get people to speak louder, which also may cause them to articulate more clearly," Huber said.

The most common therapy, the Lee Silverman voice treatment program, trains patients to speak louder in one-hour sessions four days a week for a month.

"Some Parkinson's patients do great with this approach, but others do not," Huber said. "They forget to keep speaking louder the minute they have left the therapy room. Lee Silverman tends to work less for people with later stages of disease or those who have some cognitive decline. So I wanted to know whether there was an easier way to cue people during therapy, rather than telling them, 'Try to be twice as loud,' or 'Try to focus on this sound meter and achieve this loudness.'"

Huber used a new approach: The patients were asked to speak louder while a recording of background "multitalker babble noise" was played. The noise is essentially the sound of a restaurant full of patrons, but without the clattering silverware and clinking glasses.

"They had an easier time getting louder when I had the noise in the room," she said. "Ordinarily, when I asked them to be twice as loud they would say they couldn't. They couldn't speak 10 decibels louder, but when I turned on the babble noise, they spoke over 10 decibels louder."

The background sound elicits a well-known phenomenon called the Lombard effect, a reflex in which people automatically speak louder in the presence of background sound.

"You go into a loud room at a party and you talk louder without even realizing it," Huber said. "We've all had the experience where the room suddenly gets quiet and you're still shouting but you didn't know you were."

Jessica Huber, at left, an associate professor in Purdue's Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, and graduate student Meghan Moran demonstrate a new technology developed in Huber's lab that helps Parkinson's patients overcome the tendency to speak too quietly. The system works by playing a recording of ambient sound, which resembles the noisy chatter of a restaurant full of patrons. A sensor placed on the neck detects that the person has begun to speak and tells the device to play the babble through an earpiece worn by the patient. Patients also wear a mask and sensors in elastic bands placed around the rib cage to precisely record respiratory, laryngeal and articulatory data.

(Photo Credit: Purdue University photo/Andrew Hancock)

Huber created a new electronic technology using this principle. The voice-activated device automatically plays the background babble when the person begins to speak. A sensor placed on the neck detects that the person has begun to speak and tells the device to play the babble through an earpiece worn by the patient.

"I got the idea that if we train them with a natural cue in their everyday environment, we will probably get better results," she said. "We ask them to wear the system for about four hours a day as they go about their daily routine."

A critical part of the research is to integrate the voice-detection sensor, called an accelerometer, developed in work led by biomedical engineering doctoral students Matias Zanartu and Julio C. Ho and biomedical engineering professor George Wodicka, head of Purdue's Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering.

"This sensor is crucial because it is essential that the background babble noise only turn on when the subject talks," Huber said.

The device prototype was built by engineering resources manager Jim Jones and senior research engineer Kirk Foster, both in the Weldon School. An earlier prototype had been built by Scott Kepner, manager of technical services, and Derek Tully, assistant manager of technical services, both in the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences.

Six patients wore the portable system for eight weeks. Data collected showed the system effectively prompts Parkinson's patients to speak louder and more clearly.

"Their speech changes significantly," said Huber, who is working with Meghan Darling, a doctoral student in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences. "There have been times where I have called patients and they've had the device on and I didn't really recognize them. And these are patients I've known for a long time. This is beneficial also because it trains them in their everyday environment - in their homes, with their spouses, in their churches, in their social groups."

Huber determined the system works by measuring how much louder patients talked while on the device and without the device after eight weeks of training.

The researchers also are interested in examining the physiological changes elicited by the device. Patients wear a mask and sensors in elastic bands placed around the rib cage to precisely recording respiratory, laryngeal and articulatory data.

"We know the lung volume, and we know the pressure and the airflow they generate during speech, which tells us not only whether they are talking louder but how they are talking louder," Huber said. "For example, maybe they are using solely the respiratory system to get louder, or maybe it's all about the larynx."

The researchers also will test how well the system works by having people who are not speech pathologists listen to the patients pronouncing words that could be easily confused with other words.

Researchers will work in the future with patients at the Rehabilitation Institute of Indianapolis. Further research is needed to determine whether patients continue speaking louder when they are not wearing the device. The system could be further developed to use rechargeable batteries, Huber said.

Source: Purdue University

Speech Therapy Techniques and Methods By Chriss Tyrrell

2009-08-25T12:34:00.000-07:00

Just as with so many other conditions that afflict children, it is the Internet that has been instrumental in the development of new and more effective therapies for speech impediments like stuttering. Experts in the field are now able to more quickly and effectively share their discoveries and can even collaborate in a real time basis from all corners of the planet during actual treatment sessions and research projects.

Stuttering - A Mysterious Speech Impediment

The net result is that the past decade has seen a drastic increase of the success rate in treating even severe cases of childhood and adult stuttering - a mysterious speech impediment that for so long has baffled experts. For instance why is it that a child with a serious stuttering condition who struggles with simple sentences can sing or often recite poetry flawlessly?

Far More Effective Treatments For Stutterers

So while the Internet has allowed speech therapy experts who in years past would have worked alone in their offices to work in collusion. It has at the same time enabled the parents of children who stutter to become more aware of their discoveries. Discoveries that have led to far more effective treatments for children and adults who stutter.

Far More Tools and Methods For Todays Speech Therapist

So now todays speech therapist has far more tools and information at their disposal that can be implemented individually or in groups, depending on each individuals needs and success rate. This means that speech therapists who in the past may have relied on as little as one known treatment method can now combine several together to tailor fit each stutterer with a far more effective treatment regimen.

Newer Effective Treatment Therapy Methods

One very effective course of treatment for stuttering involves the removal of problem words from a child's vocabulary. As these problem words that are causing the stuttering are being removed, alternative words will be taught to the child. At the same time a treatment method known a colorful semantics is often implemented that basically teaches a child new colorful and descriptive words to use in problem areas of their speech.

Addressing The Physical and Psychological Causes of Stuttering

In some children the positive effect is two-fold. That is that while the stuttering problem is being addressed and eliminated a new confidence in their broadening vocabulary is being instilled in the child. Treatment combinations like these address not only the physical issues that contribute to stuttering but the psychological and speech confidence issues as well.

Slow Motion Speech Therapy Techniques

Of course speech therapy treatment for stuttering children is not new. In fact there are long used and well proven effective therapy techniques that work well on some children. One of the most common involves simply working with a child to speak in slow motion during therapy sessions. In this way, problem areas can be worked through and a child can be allowed a chance to slowly and methodically work on speech articulation.

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Speech Language Reviews Updated Software

2009-08-19T07:34:00.000-07:00

Well I happy to report that the new website is completed. I have been getting feedback from the speech Language Therapists that are trialing the program and it has been all good. BUT we are still looking for more reviews to be done of the product, so if your a Speech Therapist and have interest in the Tele-Speech opportunity to trial a program that allows the patients to be followed up with Via Email.. you can send them home with exercises and they will be able to speak those exercises into their email and you will receive a audio MP3 file to listen too.
We are excited, the Fluency and Articulation have just been a few type of therapy that are beginning to see the benefits, we feel the (Aphasia) stroke victims can also benefits during there treatment to help.

Please write me if your interested in conducting the review, it is No Obligation and basically takes about 15 mins and you'll be able to give us feedback..

Jay.Bancroft@speechemail.com
617-901-1154 direct

www.speechemail.com

Clinicians and Patients lets talk Email.. HELP SLP's

2009-08-05T15:01:00.000-07:00

I looking for clinicians, SLP, ASHA members and communication disorder specialists to help us with the review of the http://www.speechemail.com/ Product. if you feel you might be interested in a product to help with treatment and provide the remove progress, the type you can just send patients home with exercises and they can work on them and then simply record with speechemail and send them via email back to you for review ? If so, please just input your name and primary email and we will send you out the information.

SpeechEmail bring you a New Site !

2009-08-02T07:58:00.001-07:00

We are working to create the new www.SpeechEmail.com site which will be available next week.
Our business is helping Speech Language Pathologists to work with more patients in less time, if we can help them to work with one or two more patients in a week we feel we've succeeded. The program allows for tele-speech services via email. Patients can be sent home with exercises to practice and then record improvements with SpeechEmail and send them through email clinicians receive mp3 files in there emails of the improvements for review. We currently are being reviewed by many ASHA clinicians throughout the country and are continuing to look for more SLP's to review this, if you are interested in reviewing SpeechEmail, or would like more information for use with your patients please. Just click on the link and fill out your name, email and note.

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