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Smarty Ears and Linguabilities join forces to support children with speech and communication disorders

📅 August 21, 2023⏱️ 2 min read

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Smarty Ears and Linguabilities partnered to bring technology and qualified clinicians to school-age children with communication disorders.
Linguabilities provides speech-language therapy, school psychology, occupational therapy and special education services to schools.
Smarty Ears Online adds interactive activities, automatic progress tracking and collaboration between providers.

Smarty Ears and Linguabilities have partnered to make speech therapy services more reliable, effective, and engaging for school age children, while increasing compliance records for school services.

Linguabilities, under the leadership of Marissa Rocheleau, offers a full spectrum of special education services to schools, including speech and language therapy, school psychology evaluations, occupational therapy, and special education teaching.

Smarty Ears, under the leadership of Barbara Fernandes, launched a technology called Smarty Ears Online which enables clinicians to deliver speech therapy services with 80 interactive activities. This Smarty Ears solution automatically tracks student progress, broken down by different areas of communication (receptive and expressive language, social communication, vocabulary, speech, etc). The progress is displayed in a user-friendly format both for clinicians and families. In addition, it allows for collaboration between providers to make sure that children have their best chance at learning.

As a mother of children who receive speech therapy services, the lack of objective and consistent progress monitoring systems has always frustrated me. Another problem that Smarty Ears is committed to solving is making the child’s progress data easy to understand by families. We all want to make sure our children are making progress. I am glad to have elevated this field with this technology

Barbara Fernandes

Smarty Ears CEO

Together, Smarty Ears and Linguabilities will be able to support students around the country with state-of-the-art technology and qualified clinicians. Considering the current crisis in special education personnel, the combination of teletherapy services and a technology that expands the duration of practice for the students with an in-classroom or home-practice program, this partnership will have significant impact for students with communication disorders.

“As the owner of a company focused on high-quality online learning, it was important to me to make therapy not only easier for our therapists to provide, but also to provide a clearer picture of student progress and outcomes to both families and school administration. The Smarty Ears Platform lets us do this by making fun, engaging activities easily accessible to our therapists and by providing easy to read data for making decisions about student needs,” Marissa Rocheleau, Owner of Linguabilities.

You can learn more about the services offered by Linguabilities to schools on their website: https://www.linguabilities.com/schools

Smarty Ears encourages private practice owners to partner with Smarty Ears to provide better tools for their clinicians. Schools seeking to improve their student and family engagement or improve their progress monitoring accountability can contact Smarty Ears to gain access to their proprietary technology within Smarty Ears Online. For more details visit Smarty Ears Online