Outstanding Post-Therapy Support
As an HCRI stuttering therapy program graduate, you become a part of the Hollins alumni family and benefit from a comprehensive package of post-therapy services and tools that are unmatched in the industry.
Once you return home from your stuttering treatment, HCRI’s clinicians are available by phone and e-mail to offer guidance to help you maintain your newly acquired fluency skills. In addition, the following support offerings are provided to maximize your success for the long term.
- An on-line tracking scale enables you to keep a record of daily speech performance.
- Fluency Net, HCRI's internet-based home practice system, is available as a means of validating the quality of target use and practicing of targets. This system makes the same type of physical measurements of targets as does the therapy system at HCRI's clinical facility.
- Newsletters are published on a regular basis to keep you informed about HCRI news and to provide helpful tips and advice for sustained fluency.
- HCRI offers short-term ”referesher” training courses on a scheduled basis.
- An alumni forum on the HCRI website (www.stuttering.org ) provides the opportunity to exchange information, tips and advice with other program graduates.
- E-mails are sent to update you about new findings in the field of stuttering, practice activities and referesher training schedules.
- There are a number of HCRI practice groups around the country that meet regularly and welcome participation by new graduates.
- HCRI holds an Annual Reunion and Fluency Skills Conference during the second weekend of each July.
For more information about HCRI’s therapy program and support services, call 540-265-5650 or click here to send an email. |