speech IRL was founded in the spring of 2013. I had spent the past few years working individually with adult clients, and realized that students and professionals have communication demands that go far beyond the usual scenarios targeted in a traditional speech therapy clinic setting. At the same time, I realized that most of the practices in Chicago were structured around a pediatric or hospital-associated...
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In a partnership beginning July 2015 between Northwestern Medical Group and Northwestern University Center for Audiology, Speech, Language, and Learning, the interdisciplinary Voice Clinic brings diagnosis and treatment together in one convenient location in north suburban Chicago. During a visit to the Voice Clinic, Dr. Duyka, Nathan Waller and their teams will complete a thorough history to gain an understanding of your concerns. They will then...
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Robert W. Bastian, M.D., established Bastian Voice Institute in 2003 following a successful twenty-year career in academic medicine first at Washington University in St. Louis and then at Loyola University in Chicago, finishing with the rank of Professor. Dr. Bastian founded BVI, inspired by his vision of a unique, primary-through-tertiary-care specialty practice dedicated to voice, swallowing, and airway disorders in the adult population. Bastian Voice...
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We offer world-class diagnosis and treatment for our patients, who present us with all the variety of the third largest city in the United States. As part of The University of Illinois Medical Center, our mission includes community outreach, education on voice care, and the scientific exploration of all aspects of voice. Unique to humans, the voice communicates, inspires, educates and entertains. It is our mission to...
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