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Video Visit - Speech Therapy

Your speech pathologist will work with you in a video appointment to create a personalized treatment plan. Depending on your needs, therapy may focus on one or more of the following areas: Voice Therapy – Learn how to improve or restore your speaking and singing voice. Therapy can help address hoarseness, voice loss, fatigue, and pain while talking. Breathing Retraining & Laryngeal Contro... Read More

Your speech pathologist will work with you in a video appointment to create a personalized treatment plan. Depending on your needs, therapy may focus on one or more of the following areas:

Voice Therapy – Learn how to improve or restore your speaking and singing voice. Therapy can help address hoarseness, voice loss, fatigue, and pain while talking.

Breathing Retraining & Laryngeal Control Therapy – Develop better breathing techniques for exercise, speaking, singing, or overall well-being. This can help ease respiratory challenges and enhance comfort.

Behavioral Cough Suppression Therapy – Reduce or eliminate chronic cough, throat clearing, or irritation to improve quality of life and general comfort.

Swallowing Therapy – Learn exercises and strategies to make eating and drinking safer, more efficient, and more comfortable.

Facial Retraining – Harmonize facial movements for improved expressions, eye protection, and essential functions like eating, drinking, and speaking. Therapy supports recovery from facial nerve injuries.

Office Visit - Speech Therapy

Your speech pathologist will work with you in-office to create a personalized treatment plan. Depending on your needs, therapy may focus on one or more of the following areas: Voice Therapy – Learn how to improve or restore your speaking and singing voice. Therapy can help address hoarseness, voice loss, fatigue, and pain while talking. Breathing Retraining & Laryngeal Control Therapy – D... Read More

Your speech pathologist will work with you in-office to create a personalized treatment plan. Depending on your needs, therapy may focus on one or more of the following areas:

Voice Therapy – Learn how to improve or restore your speaking and singing voice. Therapy can help address hoarseness, voice loss, fatigue, and pain while talking.

Breathing Retraining & Laryngeal Control Therapy – Develop better breathing techniques for exercise, speaking, singing, or overall well-being. This can help ease respiratory challenges and enhance comfort.

Behavioral Cough Suppression Therapy – Reduce or eliminate chronic cough, throat clearing, or irritation to improve quality of life and general comfort.

Swallowing Therapy – Learn exercises and strategies to make eating and drinking safer, more efficient, and more comfortable.

Facial Retraining – Harmonize facial movements for improved expressions, eye protection, and essential functions like eating, drinking, and speaking. Therapy supports recovery from facial nerve injuries.

Heather L Robinson MA, CCC-SLP

Welcome to Idaho Face & Voice

  • 30+ years of comprehensive, intuitive and personalized Speech Therapy care
  • Expertise in disorders of voice, breathing, and the upper airway
  • Facial Therapy Specialist
  • Idaho-licensed and ASHA-certified

Extensive experience with the following:

  • Occupational voice use (teachers, singers, sales, call center, attorneys, actors, clergy, etc.)
  • Exercise Induced Laryngeal Obstruction (EILO)
  • Inducible Laryngeal Obstruction (ILO) and Laryngospasm, formerly Vocal Cord Dysfunction
  • Chronic cough
  • Gender affirming voice and communication training
  • Globus Pharyngeus - “lump in throat” sensation
  • Irritable Larynx Syndrome (ILS)
  • Long COVID
  • Peripheral Facial Nerve Injury - Bell’s Palsy, Ramsay Hunt Syndrome, Acoustic Neuroma Resection, other
  • Pulmonary compromised (Idiopathic dyspnea, CF, COPD/emphysema, RADS/chemical inhalation injury, adult onset asthma)

Specialty Training and Certifications

VOICE

  • Behavioral and Qualitative Analysis of Voice and Resonance
  • Casper-Stone Confidential Flow Therapy
  • Conversation Training Therapy
  • Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) and Laryngopharyngeal Reflux Disease (LPRD) Management
  • Gender Affirming Voice Training - OutCare Certified
  • Laryngeal Function Studies - Acoustic and Aerodynamic Assessment of Voice
  • Lessac-Madsen Resonant Voice Therapy
  • Manual Therapy and Myofascial Release
  • Manual Circumlaryngeal Therapy (circumlaryngeal massage and manual laryngeal reposturing)
  • Phonation Resistance Training Exercise (PhoRTE)
  • Resistive Muscle Strength Training
  • Semi Occluded Vocal Tract Exercises

BREATHING

  • Assessment of Breathing Pattern Disorders
  • Buteyko Breathing Method
  • Exercise Induced Laryngeal Obstruction Biphasic Inspiratory (EILOBI) Breathing Training
  • Functional Breathing Pattern Training
  • Laryngeal Control Therapy
  • Resistive Muscle Strength Training

UPPER AIRWAY MANAGEMENT

  • Assessment of Cough and Breathing
  • Behavioral Cough Suppression Therapy
  • Esophageal Dysphagia
  • Globus Pharyngeus Behavioral Management
  • Irritable Larynx Syndrome (ILS)
  • Reflux Management

FACIAL RETRAINING

  • Assessment and management of Facial Paralysis, Paresis (weakness), and Synkinesis
  • Neuromuscular Retraining for Peripheral Nerve Dysfunction
  • Management of Post Facial Paralysis Smile Dysfunction
  • Assessment and Therapy Management of Facial Palsy in Children
  • Post Operative Considerations in Facial Retraining Therapy
  • Challenging Cases
  • Temporomandibular Disorders and Facial Palsy
  • Management of Upper Motor Neuron Facial Palsy

Heather uses evidence-based practice, patient-centered therapy, and a trauma-Informed model of care for optimal outcomes.

Memberships and Education

  • American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) member
  • Facial Therapy Specialists International (FTSI) member
  • Global Initiative for ILO (GIILO) member
  • Speech Language Pathology - University of North Texas (1992)
  • Communication Sciences and Disorders - South Dakota State University (1990)

Interests

With 25+ years in the performing arts, Heather has a special interest in helping singers attain their highest level of function and performance. She enjoys hiking in the Boise Foothills, gardening, and spending time with family.

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Located at: 4696 W Overland Rd, STE 228, Boise
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Need Help? 208-500-1728 heather@idahofacevoice.com