🌈 Sharing the Sound: Gender-Affirming Voice Outreach Across the Bay

Our Pride Month celebration is more than rainbow flags, it’s about meaningful action and community connection.

Throughout June, the Sound Speech and Hearing Clinic team visited providers across the Bay Area who support gender-diverse patients. From ENTs and primary care clinics to mental health professionals and plastic surgery practices, we’ve dropped off resource kits full of goodies, information, and a whole lot of love for our gender-affirming voice therapy program.

In addition to these deliveries, we’ve also been reaching out for real conversations, learning what local providers need, answering questions, and building stronger referral networks to ensure patients have access to affirming, evidence-based voice care.

At Sound, we believe that every voice deserves to be heard, supported, and celebrated. We’re proud to partner with our medical colleagues across the region to make sure gender-diverse individuals have access to therapy that affirms identity and empowers expression.

If you’re a provider who wants to learn more about our program or receive outreach materials, we’d love to connect!

Jody Vaynshtok
Jody is a California-licensed speech language pathologist with eight years of industry and clinical experience. She has worked with both adult and pediatric populations during her time at private practice, birth-to-three, and hospital facilities. She is experienced in the assessment and treatment of a variety of communication and cognitive disorders. In addition, Jody has a passion for working with adults looking to achieve clearer communication. Jody received her BS in Speech and Hearing Sciences and MS in Medical Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Washington. She was a part of the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford’s cleft and craniofacial clinic participating in the multidisciplinary assessment and treatment of children born with craniofacial abnormalities. She holds a staff position at UCSF and is the lead speech language pathologist for the department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery’s Hearing Loss Clinic. When she's not busy having fun with her clients Jody enjoys spending time with her husband, Anton, friends and family. And if she's not headed out somewhere fun for dinner, you might find her at Bar Method working out!
www.soundshc.com
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