Preferences of speech and language therapists for telepractice in the COVID-19 pandemic and factors affecting their acceptance of the delivery model

Cangi, Mehmet Emrah; Yaşa, İbrahim Can; Işildar, Ayşe

doi:10.18621/eurj.854706

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“… 42 , 43 Individuals who provide teletherapy require training in the use of specific platforms to offer a complete session that will consist of practice and creative programs via teletherapy, offering these individuals an additional route for rehabilitation along their learning journey. 44 …”

Section: Recent Advances In Telepractice Services In Asdmentioning

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Recent Advances of Telepractice for Autism Spectrum Disorders in Speech and Language Pathology

Christopoulou¹,

Drosos²,

Petinou³

2022

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Telepractice or teletherapy is defined as the means of service delivery via technology-based platforms that allow long-distance interventions across populations, age spans, and geographical locations. Specifically, telepractice capitalizes on communication technologies such as online modules, videoconferencing, and computerized software programs, in servicing populations with communication challenges. Notably, telepractice has emerged as a potentially effective, low-cost, and promising means of conducting and completing online assessment, diagnosis, and intervention sessions for individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Moreover, telepractice allows the inclusion of parents, caregivers, and educators as potential facilitators in supporting treatment delivery in populations with ASD. This thematic review article aims to highlight and acquaint practitioners and other stakeholders with relatively recent information regarding the advantages and disadvantages of the telepractice service delivery model in ASD. Furthermore, the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted service delivery in the field of Health Sciences including speech and language pathology (SLP). Consequently, the need to avoid face-to-face therapy sessions, recommended to SLPs as to all health practitioners, resulted in the call for adaptation and adjustment of service telepractice. This paper attempts to answer this call by suggesting supplementing traditional diagnostic and therapy resources with training modules consisting of online materials and use of animated and specially designed programs in SLP intervention with individuals with ASD. Lastly, the paper includes a discussion of research findings in the field, a conclusion, and a take-home message.

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confidence: 99%

Recent Advances of Telepractice for Autism Spectrum Disorders in Speech and Language Pathology

Christopoulou¹,

Drosos²,

Petinou³

2022

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“…In European nations such as Turkey, allied health professional bodies including the Turkish Association of Speech Language Therapists advised the temporary decommissioning of in-person services due to risk of viral transmission. 2 South East Asian countries were particularly focused on transition to telepractice during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic due to improving access to smart phones, lower than recommended doctor to patient ratios and high risk aging populations. 3 …”

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Telepractice implementation experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, a qualitative exploration of Australian disability allied health providers: A diamond in the rough

Benz,

Dantas,

Welsh

et al. 2023

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Telepractice has existed for decades, but as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, it gained value and increased desirability across the disability service and health sectors, as a mitigation strategy for the viral transmission risk. The increased desirability of telepractice encouraged organisations to invest and correspondingly enhance access to services delivered remotely via digital technology including allied health therapy interventions. The investment and uptake of telepractice provided greater learning opportunities and ability to investigate telepractice implementation in specific contexts such as disability services, enabling service providers the ability to tailor to specific population needs. Methods This study investigated the experience of telepractice implementation during the COVID-19 pandemic from 13 allied health clinicians and managers of disability organisations across Australia between November 2021 and February 2022. A contextualist and critical realist theory was applied through the study, with reflective thematic analysis used as the data analysis method and findings described using a metaphor method centring on diamond formation. The method selection aimed to produce findings grounded in qualitative methodology and methods while remaining accessible to the disability community. Results An exploration and analysis of the data by the authors identified six themes addressing the experiences of participants and used the metaphor of diamond formation to describe changes in allied health clinicians and disability organisations during the COVID-19 influenced telepractice implementation. Conclusion The allied health clinicians and managers who participated in this study demonstrated an overall sense of hope that telepractice would be a viable and sustainable delivery pathway for services in the future. This article endorses the integration of a planned telepractice delivery pathway that capitalises on the momentum created by the COVID-19 pandemic in a purposeful and accessible way that looks to enhance rather than replace current practices.

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Is Articulation Assessment via Synchronous Telepractice as Reliable as In-Person Assessment?

Bartamay

Cangi

Baba

et al. 2023

Am J Speech Lang Pathol

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Purpose: This study aimed to determine whether articulation assessment via telepractice is as reliable as in-person assessment. Method: Thirty-four children aged 4–11 years with speech sound disorder (SSD) participated in the study. The Articulation Subtest (SET) of the Turkish Articulation and Phonology Test (SST) was used to assess the children's articulation skills. The study's procedures comprised two stages. First, in the Baseline Pilot Stage, five speech-language pathologists (SLPs; four graduate SLPs and one SLP with a PhD degree) conducted in-person assessments on seven children, and their agreement was examined (α for five SLPs = .950; p < .0001). In the Main Assessment Stage, four SLPs assessed 27 children synchronously on four separate days through either online (two SLPs) or in-person (the other two SLPs) clinician roles, which changed daily. Online evaluators did not use microphones and headphones to avoid any advantage. The agreement among the four raters was examined by calculating the intraclass correlation coefficient. Results: The results revealed an excellent level of agreement regarding overall assessment between online and in-person clinicians ( p < .0001). All articulation manners were acceptable, good, or excellent. However, some sounds' (α < .7 for /d/, /ɣ/, /b/; α < .8 for /p/, /ʃ/, /t/, /l/, /v/) reliability levels were relatively low compared with others. Conclusions: There may be certain restrictiveness regarding discriminating visual or auditory clues related to certain phonemes in a telepractice environment. This restrictiveness may be related with sonority and with differentiation between minimal pairs where visual clues are limited.

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Preferences of speech and language therapists for telepractice in the COVID-19 pandemic and factors affecting their acceptance of the delivery model

Cited by 4 publications

References 50 publications

Recent Advances of Telepractice for Autism Spectrum Disorders in Speech and Language Pathology

Recent Advances of Telepractice for Autism Spectrum Disorders in Speech and Language Pathology

Telepractice implementation experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, a qualitative exploration of Australian disability allied health providers: A diamond in the rough

Is Articulation Assessment via Synchronous Telepractice as Reliable as In-Person Assessment?

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