Services
ICAN™ Talk Clinic is a full-service speech and language pathology outpatient center with a specialty in providing professional services to individuals with severe communication disorders, particularly those who rely on Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) systems or benefit from other assistive technology to support treatment.
Our clinicians provide innovative, comprehensive, family and community-based, multilingual speech and language services to meet the complex communications needs of individuals across the life span.
Diagnostics:
Treatment:
Support services:
ICAN Talk Clinic is part of the AAC Institute, a worldwide educational, advocacy and research resource for individuals with severe communications disorders who rely on AAC.
Our clinicians provide innovative, comprehensive, family and community-based, multilingual speech and language services to meet the complex communications needs of individuals across the life span.
Diagnostics:
- Speech-language evaluations
- Cognitive communication evaluations
- Comprehensive augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) assessments with a full range of low-and high-tech voice-output devices
- Comprehensive assessments for computer-based assistive technology to support computer access, control of the environment and language-learning software
- Performance and outcome measurements
- Swallowing screening and monitoring for clients with medical needs associated with severe or degenerative communication disorders
- School and community-based consultations
Treatment:
- Individual and group treatment
- Home visits
- School and community-based services
- Telerehabilitation services locally, nationwide and internationally
Support services:
- Advocacy
- Trainings, workshops, podcasts and webinars
- Family and caregiver training support
- Speech Generating Device (SGD) Funding Reports and appeals (USA only)
- International AAC evaluations, consultations and professional development
ICAN Talk Clinic is part of the AAC Institute, a worldwide educational, advocacy and research resource for individuals with severe communications disorders who rely on AAC.
Our clients
We serve individuals with a range of disabilities including, but not limited to:
Children & Adolescents:
Adults:
Children & Adolescents:
- Attention Deficit & Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Angelman’s syndrome
- Apraxia of speech (AOS)
- Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD
- Cerebral Palsy
- Developmental disabilities
- Down syndrome
- Fragile X syndrome
- Pervasive developmental disorders
- Rett syndrome
- Specific Language Impairment (SLI)
- Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
Adults:
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Amyotrophic lateral schlerosis (ALS)/Motor Neuron Disease
- Aphasia (stroke patients)
- Dementia
- Disabilities from childhood/adolescence transitioning to adulthood
- Huntington’s disease
- Parkinson’s disease
- Traumatic brain injury