Many times, patients are discharged from professional care based on physical abilities with no regard to cognitive and language skills. Insurance companies' focus is often on the physical status of the patient, and the patient is forced to return home unable to communicate his or her basic wants or needs.
In some instances with outpatient or home health therapy, individuals with aphasia are discharged from speech therapy because their insurance benefits have ended. The insurance company refuses to pay any longer even though the client is in great need for therapy. Unfortunately, many people in this situation cannot afford private speech therapy services.
Although our therapy programs were not created to replace therapy with a licensed speech-language pathologist, they can be valuable tools if they are the only means of therapy due to insurance limitations.
