Essence Speech Language Pathology Services

About Essence Speech Language Pathology Services

Essence Speech-Language Pathology Services is a private practice in Quincy, Massachusetts that serves the Greater Boston area. The practice is led by Jessica Gibbons, MS CCC/SLP, a certified speech-language pathologist with 20 years of experience. Her academic training includes a Bachelor of Science in Communication Disorders from the University of New Hampshire and a Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology from the MGH Institute of Health Professions. The website states that she has worked across outpatient, acute rehabilitation, subacute rehabilitation, and home care settings.

The practice provides services for both children and adults with communication, cognitive, voice, and swallowing disorders. Its service pages describe speech therapy for articulation and language difficulties affecting spoken and written communication, including areas such as word finding, verbal organization, auditory comprehension, reading, and writing. Cognitive therapy is offered for attention, memory, problem-solving, and executive functioning challenges, with treatment goals tied to practical daily needs. For adults, examples include medication management, finances, scheduling, and remembering conversations. For children, therapy may target school work and communication skills used at home and in the community. The clinic also treats swallowing disorders linked to developmental delay, cancer, surgery, neurological impairment, and age-related decline, with an emphasis on safer eating and drinking. Voice services address disorders associated with vocal cord or respiratory changes such as paralysis, muscle tension, polyps, nodules, and cancer, and the website also notes treatment for diagnoses including stroke, Parkinson’s, ALS, and laryngectomy. Across the site, the practice presents its care as client-centered and individualized, with therapy built around meaningful functional goals, responsible diagnosis, quality treatment, and clear discharge planning.

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