Provides a wide range of services to clients who are unable to use oral speech and/or writing to meet their communication needs. Includes evaluation, consultation, a loaner bank of communication devices, training, and ongoing support.

Provides specifically trained communication assistants to serve as the speech-disabled user’s voice and repeat his/her responses to the called party.

Provides a weekly support group offering socialization opportunities for adults who have survived strokes or other neurologic conditions resulting in communication problems. Speech-language pathologists and volunteers also participate.

Evaluates patients with communication disorders (those who have never spoken or who have lost their ability to speak) and devises augmentative communication systems that may include computers, accessing equipment, adaptive switches, environmental controls, and clinical software. Each system is personalized to fit the user's communication needs and physical abilities. Service includes a lending library of devices that patients may borrow to try before ordering.

Assists with telephone communications for persons with speech disabilities. Messages from a speech disabled person are repeated by a communication assistant (CA) to the receiver of the call. CAs are trained in speech patterns and language recognition. Offers a special service for those who can speak, but can not hear called CAP TEL.

Provides a weekly support group offering socialization opportunities for adults who have survived strokes or other neurologic conditions resulting in communication problems. Speech-language pathologists and volunteers also participate.