Speech-language pathologists have a difficult time providing therapy remotely, which has led TEA partners to provide them with the AmplioSpeech platform. | Pexels
A partnership between the Texas Education Association (TEA) and a company that provides speech pathology technology will serve 10,000 students with special education needs.
The closure of schools across the state made the job of speech-language pathologists difficult, KXXV reported. But a platform from AmplioSpeech enables licensed speech pathologists to remotely offer speech therapy and more than 250,000 Texas students are eligible for the therapy.
The school system that signed up the first 10,000 students with the service received the tool for free through a partnership with TEA and AmplioSpeech. More than 100 additional school systems enrolled students with 24 hours as well, KXXV reported.
To help school systems that need assistance, AmplioSpeech has its own licensed speech-language pathologists ready to step in, according to KXXV.
School systems can also scale up the AmplioSpeech system without outside help to support all students who require remote speech therapy.
“TEA immediately identified the need for a solid solution to help vulnerable students during this unprecedented crisis,” Dr. Yair Shapira, founder and CEO of AmplioSpeech, told KXXV. “As a father to a child who stutters, I was moved by TEA’s clear focus on students’ vital everyday needs.”
Students who have speech-language issues can suffer from poor academic performance, KXVV reported. AmplioSpeech’s platform helps speech-language pathologists to work with students online so they don’t see their academic progress decline. The platform automates progress, compliance and billing documentation to help the professionals have more time for students.
“TEA is committed to ensuring strong support is provided to students in special education. As schools grapple with providing high quality remote instruction to all students, this tool helps solve a critical problem to improve education for hundreds of thousands of Texas kids,” Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath told KXVV.
Other resources TEA and its Special Education Taskforce use to support special education students can be found online.
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