Service Delivery and the Use of Telepractice During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iceland

Crowe, Kathryn; Másdóttir, Thora; Einarsdóttir, Jóhanna

doi:10.1044/2021_persp-21-00096

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“…A possible explanation could be that during the pandemic the children (between 6 and 12 years) in Iceland attended schools most of the time. Only if they came into contact with someone diagnosed with COVID-19 were they required to quarantine at home for 14 days [18].…”

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Personal Narratives of 10-Year-Old Children in Iceland: Verbal Productivity, Word Diversity, and Topics

Einarsdóttir,

Þráinsdóttir

2023

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Introduction: The feasibility of using a standard protocol, labelled as the Global TALES, to elicit personal stories was tested across 10 different countries between 2019 and 2021. Personal narratives have not been investigated in Iceland in a similar way. The aim was to explore personal narratives of monolingual children in Iceland by using the Global TALES (2018) protocol to investigate verbal productivity, word diversity, and narrative topics. Methods: Twenty-seven children (ages 9;8 – 10;9) with typical language development produced personal stories in response to six emotion-based prompts contained in the protocol. The children were interviewed by using the Zoom platform because of Covid restrictions. Children’s spoken language was analysed for total number of utterances (TNU), total number of words (TNW), number of different words (NDW), mean length of utterances (MLUw) and proportion of words with grammatical errors. The narrative topics were coded and documented. Results: The measures of verbal productivity showed that there was a large linguistic diversity within the group on all metrics examined. The mean TNU was 62.1 (SD 20.2) utterances, the mean for TNW was 546 (SD 219) words, the mean for NDW was 206 (SD 62) words and the MLUw was 8.6 (SD 1.5) words in an utterance. Despite the variability in spoken language performance around 70-75% of the participants produced TNU, TNW, NDW and MLUw within +/- 1 SD from the mean. The topics of the stories were most frequently related to personal achievement or relationships with the family or friends. Conclusion: The Global TALES (2018) protocol can be used to elicit personal stories in 10-year-old children in Iceland. The results related to verbal productivity and the topics of interest were in line with previous studies around the world.

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Personal Narratives of 10-Year-Old Children in Iceland: Verbal Productivity, Word Diversity, and Topics

Einarsdóttir,

Þráinsdóttir

2023

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The Use of Telepractice to Administer Norm-Referenced Communication and Cognition Assessments in Children With Hearing Loss: A Rapid Review

Favot,

Marnane,

Easwar

et al. 2024

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Purpose: Telepractice administration of norm-referenced assessments of communication and cognition is relatively new, and evidence to support this practice for children with hearing loss is limited. This rapid review examines the validity, reliability, feasibility, and common features of telepractice-administered norm-referenced assessments of communication and cognition for children with hearing loss to determine whether results via telepractice-administration are usable. Method: This rapid review was conducted in accordance with the Cochrane Collaboration Rapid Reviews Methods Group recommendations. Rayyan software was used for initial and full-text screening, and the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies was used to measure study quality. Results: Electronic databases searches identified two studies that met the eligibility criteria. The findings of this rapid review provide some evidence to indicate that results of norm-referenced assessments do not differ depending on test administration conditions or hearing group status. Although both studies were of sufficient quality, replicability of these studies is uncertain due to the limited description of telepractice administration procedures. Participants indicated that sound levels provided by inbuilt computer speakers were adequate for them to be able to participate in telepractice assessment. Conclusion: Telepractice administration of the norm-referenced assessments in the included studies may be valid, reliable, and feasible; however, the generalizability of these findings to other norm-referenced assessments is uncertain due to the limited amount of research.

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Rapid transition to telepractice across the lifespan in speech-language pathology: Insight from a survey of clinicians in Canada

Feehan,

Korade,

Charest

et al. 2023

International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

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Service Delivery and the Use of Telepractice During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iceland

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

Personal Narratives of 10-Year-Old Children in Iceland: Verbal Productivity, Word Diversity, and Topics

Personal Narratives of 10-Year-Old Children in Iceland: Verbal Productivity, Word Diversity, and Topics

The Use of Telepractice to Administer Norm-Referenced Communication and Cognition Assessments in Children With Hearing Loss: A Rapid Review

Rapid transition to telepractice across the lifespan in speech-language pathology: Insight from a survey of clinicians in Canada

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