Frequently Asked Questions
Vocal Concepts is a Fee for Service practice. Clients are responsible for payment for evaluation and therapy services at the time of the service. The fee for evaluation is based on the total time spent in the evaluation process, testing, scoring, analyzing results, formulating recommendations and plan of care, and writing evaluation reports. The fee for therapy services includes the time spent in direct treatment and consultation with the client and family.
We accept cash, verified check, and some app-based payment platforms. Upon request, a Superbill and accompanying documentation are provided for potential insurance reimbursement to the client.
Please contact your insurance company to understand your benefits for services by a speech-language pathologist. Getting answers regarding your covered benefits in advance will help you estimate your financial responsibility in relation to your policy. Information to acquire includes number of visits allowed per year, your deductible, your copay or coinsurance, exclusions on the benefit plan, pre-authorization/medical referral requirement, and where to submit claims.
You may need to provide the insurance company with CPT and ICD-10 codes. Codes specific to your evaluation and treatment will be provided so that you may submit them to your insurance as needed.
We work with clients from school age across the lifespan. If you are experiencing voice, speech, breathing, chronic cough, singing or performing voice issues, please fill out the self-referral form for a consultaion.
If you are being referred by your medical provider, please have them download and fill out the medical provider form, and return it by efax to us.
We work with clients from school age across the lifespan. If you are experiencing voice, speech, breathing, chronic cough, singing or performing voice issues, please fill out the self-referral form for a consultaion.
If you are being referred by your medical provider, please have them download and fill out the medical provider form, and return it by efax to us.
Yes, we offer live/in-person as well as virtual/online telehealth visits.
For virtual appointments, you will need to be in a private, quiet room with good internet service, access to your computer, laptop, tablet or phone’s camera and microphone. It is helpful to have a printer, or ability to download assignments, exercises, etc.
Yes! Jean Skeffington is a Fellowship trained Voice Pathologist/Speech language Pathologist, Singing Voice Specialist. She is credentialed through the American Speech Language Hearing Association. Read more about Jean Skeffington here.
Vocal Concepts is a fee for service practice. Payment by cash, check, or some digital cash transfer platforms is acceptable at the time of the service.
Please see the Insurance question for more information.
Your voice is often your first introduction to the world and is closely tied to your identity. We use our voices for day-to-day communication, but also to work. Professional voice users are not just singers and actors, but teachers, ministers, coaches, sales professionals, personal trainers, fitness instructors, call center operators, and any other person who uses his or her voice to make a living. Voice therapy is appropriate for restoring healthy vocal function, as well as before and after laryngeal surgery to eliminate traumatic behaviors and to recover and prevent future injury. You might need voice therapy if you are experiencing any of the following:
- Voice changes or hoarseness that doesn’t return to normal within 2-3 weeks
- Fatigue with voice use
- Discomfort or pain with voice use
- Loss of voice when speaking
- Chronic cough or throat clearing
- A desire to change your voice to align with your true self and gender
- Loss of range in singing voice or other singing voice concerns
We work with clients from school age across the lifespan. If you are experiencing voice, speech, breathing, chronic cough, singing or performing voice issues, please fill out the self-referral form for a consultaion.
If you are being referred by your medical provider, please have them download and fill out the medical provider form, and return it by efax to us.
We work with clients from school age across the lifespan. If you are experiencing voice, speech, breathing, chronic cough, singing or performing voice issues, please fill out the self-referral form for a consultaion.
If you are being referred by your medical provider, please have them download and fill out the medical provider form, and return it by efax to us.
Voice therapy is behavioral intervention centered around vocal hygiene, rebalancing subsystems of voice, and rehabilitating and preventing vocal injuries. Voice therapy teaches you how to produce voice in a healthy, sustainable, optimum way.
A specialty trained speech language pathologist (Voice pathologist) will provide therapy to balance the subsystems of voice: breathing (power), sound (vibration) and quality (resonance). A voice care program, referred to as vocal hygiene, involving hydration and eliminating vocally traumatic behaviors will also be addressed. Exercises will be taught to gain awareness and skill in healthy voice production, and an individualized home exercise program will be assigned for practice in habituating and sustaining new skills in activities of daily living.
Contact Vocal Concepts at 214-307-1911 to schedule an appointment, or fill out and submit the self-referral form on our contact page. You can also have your medical provider send us a referral using the Medical Provider Referral form found on the contact page, and fax it to us at 855-499-1471.
Contact Vocal Concepts at 214-307-1911 for a consultation to discuss whether an in-person evaluation is preferable.
After consultation, you will be scheduled for an appointment. If the appointment is to be by telehealth, you will receive instructions and an “invitation” to the “virtual waiting room.” The link to the virtual waiting room will be in the invitation, and will be the same for each appointment. A few minutes prior to your appointment, go to “virtual waiting room.” There is no separate software to download. We use doxy which is an encrypted platform, so there is no concern for privacy. Please have all materials, assignments, notes, tools, recording equipment, etc., ready to go! Be sure to be in a private, quiet room with good light and good internet access for the appointment.
Jean Skeffington is a voice pathologist and singing voice specialist with more that forty years of expertise in performing and teaching singing in private practice as well as in college and university settings, and is therefore well qualified to work with singers and performers. She offers singing/performing voice therapy for singers and other performers who experience voice changes related to their singing and performing voices, apart from their normal speaking voices. In a singing voice/performing voice therapy venue, Ms. Skeffington works collaboratively with you, your medical provider, voice teacher and/or vocal coach to reach your optimal performance goals.
Jean also offers singing lessons for those who wish to study and advance their skills, artistry, and performance confidence. Vocal coaching is available for the advanced, trained performer who is working on particular styles, and is preparing performance material. She offers performance and presentation training sessions for performers and corporate professionals to learn to present with authenticity and authority.
Vocal Concepts is a Fee for Service practice. Clients are responsible for payment for evaluation and therapy services at the time of the service. The fee for evaluation is based on the total time spent in the evaluation process, testing, scoring, analyzing results, formulating recommendations and plan of care, and writing evaluation reports. The fee for therapy services includes the time spent in direct treatment and consultation with the client and family.
We accept cash, verified check, and some app-based payment platforms. Upon request, a Superbill and accompanying documentation are provided for potential insurance reimbursement to the client.
Please contact your insurance company to understand your benefits for services by a speech-language pathologist. Getting answers regarding your covered benefits in advance will help you estimate your financial responsibility in relation to your policy. Information to acquire includes number of visits allowed per year, your deductible, your copay or coinsurance, exclusions on the benefit plan, pre-authorization/medical referral requirement, and where to submit claims.
You may need to provide the insurance company with CPT and ICD-10 codes. Codes specific to your evaluation and treatment will be provided so that you may submit them to your insurance as needed.
We work with clients from school age across the lifespan. If you are experiencing voice, speech, breathing, chronic cough, singing or performing voice issues, please fill out the self-referral form for a consultaion.
If you are being referred by your medical provider, please have them download and fill out the medical provider form, and return it by efax to us.
We work with clients from school age across the lifespan. If you are experiencing voice, speech, breathing, chronic cough, singing or performing voice issues, please fill out the self-referral form for a consultaion.
If you are being referred by your medical provider, please have them download and fill out the medical provider form, and return it by efax to us.
Yes, we offer live/in-person as well as virtual/online telehealth visits.
For virtual appointments, you will need to be in a private, quiet room with good internet service, access to your computer, laptop, tablet or phone’s camera and microphone. It is helpful to have a printer, or ability to download assignments, exercises, etc.
Yes! Jean Skeffington is a Fellowship trained Voice Pathologist/Speech language Pathologist, Singing Voice Specialist. She is credentialed through the American Speech Language Hearing Association.
Read more about Jean Skeffington here.
Vocal Concepts is a fee for service practice. Payment by cash, check, or some digital cash transfer platforms is acceptable at the time of the service.
Please see the Insurance question for more information.
Your voice is often your first introduction to the world and is closely tied to your identity. We use our voices for day-to-day communication, but also to work. Professional voice users are not just singers and actors, but teachers, ministers, coaches, sales professionals, personal trainers, fitness instructors, call center operators, and any other person who uses his or her voice to make a living. Voice therapy is appropriate for restoring healthy vocal function, as well as before and after laryngeal surgery to eliminate traumatic behaviors and to recover and prevent future injury. You might need voice therapy if you are experiencing any of the following:
- Voice changes or hoarseness that doesn’t return to normal within 2-3 weeks
- Fatigue with voice use
- Discomfort or pain with voice use
- Loss of voice when speaking
- Chronic cough or throat clearing
- A desire to change your voice to align with your true self and gender
- Loss of range in singing voice or other singing voice concerns
We work with clients from school age across the lifespan. If you are experiencing voice, speech, breathing, chronic cough, singing or performing voice issues, please fill out the self-referral form for a consultaion.
If you are being referred by your medical provider, please have them download and fill out the medical provider form, and return it by efax to us.
We work with clients from school age across the lifespan. If you are experiencing voice, speech, breathing, chronic cough, singing or performing voice issues, please fill out the self-referral form for a consultaion.
If you are being referred by your medical provider, please have them download and fill out the medical provider form, and return it by efax to us.
Voice therapy is behavioral intervention centered around vocal hygiene, rebalancing subsystems of voice, and rehabilitating and preventing vocal injuries. Voice therapy teaches you how to produce voice in a healthy, sustainable, optimum way.
A specialty trained speech language pathologist (Voice pathologist) will provide therapy to balance the subsystems of voice: breathing (power), sound (vibration) and quality (resonance). A voice care program, referred to as vocal hygiene, involving hydration and eliminating vocally traumatic behaviors will also be addressed. Exercises will be taught to gain awareness and skill in healthy voice production, and an individualized home exercise program will be assigned for practice in habituating and sustaining new skills in activities of daily living.
Contact Vocal Concepts at 214-307-1911 to schedule an appointment, or fill out and submit the self-referral form on our contact page. You can also have your medical provider send us a referral using the Medical Provider Referral form found on the contact page, and fax it to us at 855-499-1471.
Contact Vocal Concepts at 214-307-1911 for a consultation to discuss whether an in-person evaluation is preferable.
After consultation, you will be scheduled for an appointment. If the appointment is to be by telehealth, you will receive instructions and an “invitation” to the “virtual waiting room.” The link to the virtual waiting room will be in the invitation, and will be the same for each appointment. A few minutes prior to your appointment, go to “virtual waiting room.” There is no separate software to download. We use doxy which is an encrypted platform, so there is no concern for privacy. Please have all materials, assignments, notes, tools, recording equipment, etc., ready to go! Be sure to be in a private, quiet room with good light and good internet access for the appointment.
Jean Skeffington is a voice pathologist and singing voice specialist with more that forty years of expertise in performing and teaching singing in private practice as well as in college and university settings, and is therefore well qualified to work with singers and performers. She offers singing/performing voice therapy for singers and other performers who experience voice changes related to their singing and performing voices, apart from their normal speaking voices. In a singing voice/performing voice therapy venue, Ms. Skeffington works collaboratively with you, your medical provider, voice teacher and/or vocal coach to reach your optimal performance goals.
Jean also offers singing lessons for those who wish to study and advance their skills, artistry, and performance confidence. Vocal coaching is available for the advanced, trained performer who is working on particular styles, and is preparing performance material. She offers performance and presentation training sessions for performers and corporate professionals to learn to present with authenticity and authority.
Vocal Concepts is a Fee for Service practice. Clients are responsible for payment for evaluation and therapy services at the time of the service. The fee for evaluation is based on the total time spent in the evaluation process, testing, scoring, analyzing results, formulating recommendations and plan of care, and writing evaluation reports. The fee for therapy services includes the time spent in direct treatment and consultation with the client and family.
We accept cash, verified check, and some app-based payment platforms. Upon request, a Superbill and accompanying documentation are provided for potential insurance reimbursement to the client.
Please contact your insurance company to understand your benefits for services by a speech-language pathologist. Getting answers regarding your covered benefits in advance will help you estimate your financial responsibility in relation to your policy. Information to acquire includes number of visits allowed per year, your deductible, your copay or coinsurance, exclusions on the benefit plan, pre-authorization/medical referral requirement, and where to submit claims.
You may need to provide the insurance company with CPT and ICD-10 codes. Codes specific to your evaluation and treatment will be provided so that you may submit them to your insurance as needed.
We work with clients from school age across the lifespan. If you are experiencing voice, speech, breathing, chronic cough, singing or performing voice issues, please fill out the self-referral form for a consultaion.
If you are being referred by your medical provider, please have them download and fill out the medical provider form, and return it by efax to us.
Yes, we offer live/in-person as well as virtual/online telehealth visits.
For virtual appointments, you will need to be in a private, quiet room with good internet service, access to your computer, laptop, tablet or phone’s camera and microphone. It is helpful to have a printer, or ability to download assignments, exercises, etc.
Read more about Jean Skeffington here.
Vocal Concepts is a fee for service practice. Payment by cash, check, or some digital cash transfer platforms is acceptable at the time of the service.
Please see the Insurance question for more information.
Your voice is often your first introduction to the world and is closely tied to your identity. We use our voices for day-to-day communication, but also to work. Professional voice users are not just singers and actors, but teachers, ministers, coaches, sales professionals, personal trainers, fitness instructors, call center operators, and any other person who uses his or her voice to make a living. Voice therapy is appropriate for restoring healthy vocal function, as well as before and after laryngeal surgery to eliminate traumatic behaviors and to recover and prevent future injury. You might need voice therapy if you are experiencing any of the following:
- Voice changes or hoarseness that doesn’t return to normal within 2-3 weeks
- Fatigue with voice use
- Discomfort or pain with voice use
- Loss of voice when speaking
- Chronic cough or throat clearing
- A desire to change your voice to align with your true self and gender
- Loss of range in singing voice or other singing voice concerns
Your voice is often your first introduction to the world and is closely tied to your identity. We use our voices for day-to-day communication, but also to work. Professional voice users are not just singers and actors, but teachers, ministers, coaches, sales professionals, personal trainers, fitness instructors, call center operators, and any other person who uses his or her voice to make a living. You might need voice therapy if you are experiencing any of the following:
- Voice changes or hoarseness that doesn’t return to normal within 2-3 weeks
- Fatigue with voice use
- Discomfort or pain with voice use
- Loss of voice when speaking
- Chronic cough or throat clearing
- A desire to change your voice to align with your true self and gender
- Loss of range in singing voice or other singing voice concerns
Voice therapy is behavioral intervention centered around vocal hygiene, rebalancing subsystems of voice, and rehabilitating and preventing vocal injuries. Voice therapy teaches you how to produce voice in a healthy, sustainable, optimum way.
A specialty trained speech language pathologist (Voice pathologist) will provide therapy to balance the subsystems of voice: breathing (power), sound (vibration) and quality (resonance). A voice care program, referred to as vocal hygiene, involving hydration and eliminating vocally traumatic behaviors will also be addressed. Exercises will be taught to gain awareness and skill in healthy voice production, and an individualized home exercise program will be assigned for practice in habituating and sustaining new skills in activities of daily living.
Contact Vocal Concepts at 214-307-1911 to schedule an appointment, or fill out and submit the self-referral form on our contact page. You can also have your medical provider send us a referral using the Medical Provider Referral form found on the contact page, and fax it to us at 855-499-1471.
Contact Vocal Concepts at 214-307-1911 for a consultation to discuss whether an in-person evaluation is preferable.
After consultation, you will be scheduled for an appointment. If the appointment is to be by telehealth, you will receive instructions and an “invitation” to the “virtual waiting room.” The link to the virtual waiting room will be in the invitation, and will be the same for each appointment. A few minutes prior to your appointment, go to “virtual waiting room.” There is no separate software to download. We use doxy which is an encrypted platform, so there is no concern for privacy. Please have all materials, assignments, notes, tools, recording equipment, etc., ready to go! Be sure to be in a private, quiet room with good light and good internet access for the appointment.
Jean Skeffington is a voice pathologist and singing voice specialist with more that forty years of expertise in performing and teaching singing in private practice as well as in college and university settings, and is therefore well qualified to work with singers and performers. She offers singing/performing voice therapy for singers and other performers who experience voice changes related to their singing and performing voices, apart from their normal speaking voices. In a singing voice/performing voice therapy venue, Ms. Skeffington works collaboratively with you, your medical provider, voice teacher and/or vocal coach to reach your optimal performance goals.
Jean also offers singing lessons for those who wish to study and advance their skills, artistry, and performance confidence. Vocal coaching is available for the advanced, trained performer who is working on particular styles, and is preparing performance material. She offers performance and presentation training sessions for performers and corporate professionals to learn to present with authenticity and authority.