It’s your brain that hears,
NOT your ears.
ClearSounds Aural Rehabilitation is dedicated to enhancing communication for individuals with hearing impairments by employing a speech pathology-based method for Auditory Therapy. Our services could provide the crucial component necessary to elevate your office to a Clinic of Excellence.
Goal:
Aural rehab aims to help people adjust to their hearing loss while learning how to use their residual hearing in their activities of daily life.
Focus:
Our person-centered aural rehab program follows a speech language pathology model that is comprehensive and may include the following:
An assessment of auditory comprehension
A cognitive screen
Access to proprietary SLP driven Auditory Therapy App
QuickSin test
Scan-3 test
Technology pairing/education
Because amplification alone isn't enough!
Hearing aids and cochlear implants do not provide a perfect representation of sound. Hearing aids have come a long way, but they do not replicate “normal” hearing.
A period of untreated hearing loss may have resulted in changes in the brain that make it more difficult to understand speech. When a person first gets hearing aids, their ability to hear sounds immediately improves. However, once speech is detected, the brain needs to do the difficult work of making sense of each of those sounds, and this is where aural rehabilitation is needed.
Improved outcomes and satisfaction with hearing aids
Improved patient quality of life
Increased communication confidence
Enhanced speech discrimination
How it Works & Pricing
Do you have any patients who suck the life out of you? Do you have patients who have unrealistic expectations with their hearing aids? Do you have patients who need more assistance with pairing their hearing aids than you have time? Do you spend large parts of your day with unbillable appointments? Do you have patient's who struggle with understanding with their hearing loss?
If you answered yes to any of those questions ClearSounds Aural Rehab is for you.
Any patient you refer for ClearSounds Auditory Therapy remains YOUR patient. All appointments are billed directly to the patient. The first appointment is an Auditory Therapy Evaluation followed by Auditory Therapy sessions which are focused on each Client's individual needs. Sessions are billed $90 out of pocket.
What's Required:
A room to administer the evaluation and therapy
Patients, referred by you
Next Steps:
Step 1: Contact us for an exploratory call so we can answer any immediate questions about our unique business and model
Step 2: A site visit will be set up to evaluate the office space and discuss the referral process with the staff
Step 3: With referrals from you we will begin scheduling appointments for a specified day Step 4: A Plan of Care (POC) will be created following the Auditory Therapy Evaluation and will be shared with you to ensure continuity of care
Step 5: We take those challenging patients off your hands and work with them via therapy to address the main issues they have, both identified by you and them
Step 6: You have more satisfied patients
Meet Our SLP
Kristen Maurice, M.S., CCC-SLP, CBIS, is a certified member of the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) and a state licensed speech-language pathologist in Illinois. She holds a Master of Science degree in speech-language pathology from Rush University.
During her 18-year professional career, Kristen has enjoyed working in the outpatient rehabilitation and clinic settings with teens and adults with cognitive, communication and swallowing disorders. She is particularly passionate about providing individuals living with hearing loss with the tools, support and advocacy that they need to participate in meaningful activities.
She believes in utilizing a person-centered approach and works collaboratively with clients to create individual plans based on the specific goals of the individual and their families.
Benefits to the Clinic
AR helps patients to break down the barriers of the psychology of resistance towards accepting and treating their hearing loss
Improving and enhancing the perception of care by collaborating with an SLP
Reduce in office appts for dissatisfied/unrealistic patients
Individual training for Clinicians on how to discuss AR through patient outreach
Improve/increase hearing aid outcomes/satisfaction
Building a physician relationship
Address all aspects of a patient’s journey from dispensing of a
hearing aid to lifelong tools