Voice Science™ provides speech pathology for aged care throughout Melbourne. Our team are passionate speech pathologists with a special interest in communication strategies and dysphagia solutions for residents in aged care.

We are creative and offer new and refreshing strategies to boost the communication comfort and success of your residents.

We follow the research evidence scrupulously on best practise to ensure your residents with swallowing, communication or voice conditions have access to stellar and affirming speech pathology care.

Communication participation & mealtime engagement bring aged care facilities to life. 

Our team of speech pathologists provide a full range of services for your residents.

Communication Assessment & Therapy 

• Language & speech assessments
• Communication intervention for residents affected with conditions such as stroke, dementia and cognitive decline
• Diagnostic Aphasia Assessment and management
• Social conversation groups to increase communication participation and interaction in your facility
• Clear and inspiring therapy resources and supports for your team to assist your resident in their communication progress between therapist visits
• Person centred interventions for dementia

Voice Assessment & Therapy

• Diagnostic voice assessment
• Dysathria assessments & therapy
• Chronic Cough assessment and therapy
• Voice projection training and Voice Therapy for Parkinson’s disease
• Voice Therapy for age related voice degeneration (presbyphonia)
• Clear therapy resources and supports for your team to assist your resident in their voice progress between therapist visits

Swallowing Assessment & Strategies

• Dysphagia assessment and management
• Food texture and consistency recommendations for your resident
• Mealtime swallow assessments with practical recommendations for adjustments to food and fluid consistencies
• Clear resources and strategies for your kitchen staff around appropriate textures and consistencies

Strategies for Aged Care Residents from Linguistic & Culturally Diverse Backgrounds

A defining feature of our speech pathology for aged care services is our experience in working with linguistically and culturally diverse clients. We will always advocate for your multi-lingual residents and troubleshoot strategies to reduce any language barriers that may be arising in your facility. This is an area of our work that is deeply aligned to our values at Voice Science. 

Thorough Assessment

When we visit your resident for their first assessment session we will apply a thorough and diagnostic approach. If we notice other factors that need investigating within our scope, we will inform you. Since our team are all experienced voice clinicians we will screen all residents for voice changes and concerns. Our passion for communication also makes us happily screencommunication participation and function inclusive with a call out to do a swallow assessment. Speech Pathology needs in aged care can often be multi-faceted. You can trust that we will thoroughly diagnose across our scope so that every assessment shows a solid baseline for your resident across swallowing, voice, speech, language and communication. 

Speech Pathology in Aged Care can often feel rushed, especially with mobile services. Our team are well supported and not overloaded with a massive calendar of unmanageable appointments. This allows us the luxury of delivering your resident the detailed and affirming care that they are entitled to.