Telepractice Treatment of Stuttering: A Systematic Review

McGill, Megann; Noureal, Natasha; Siegel, Jordan

doi:10.1089/tmj.2017.0319

Cited by 65 publications

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“…A small amount of available data usually reports effectiveness and usefulness of telepractice in the adult population, mostly patients with post-stroke aphasia or Parkinson's disease (Hall, et al, 2013), communication and swallowing disorders (Molini-Avejonas, et al, 2015) or stuttering (McGill et al, 2019). Parsons et al (2017) reported a gain in parents' knowledge of treatment strategies which resulted in increased fidelity of indirect therapy delivered to their children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).…”

Section: Application and Effectiveness Of Telepractice: Current Findingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Telepractice as a Reaction to the COVID-19 Crisis: Insights from Croatian SLP Settings

2020

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Telepractice facilitates services in exceptional settings and situations. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is certainly such a situation. Due to pandemic-related restrictions, speech-language pathologists (SLPs) needed to adopt new approaches to their professional functioning. The aim of the paper is to examine SLP professionals’ perceptions and application of telepractice in SLP settings in Croatia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Two hundred and fifty-five SLPs completed an online survey. The results demonstrated that most SLPs had provided direct online therapy, mainly those employed in health care and private practice. The chief reasons for clients’ refusal of therapy delivered via telepractice included the lack of equipment, insufficient independence, and doubts on the effectiveness of telepractice. Although only 3% of SLPs had acquired some formal knowledge of telepractice before the pandemic, over 70% expressed satisfaction with telepractice because it allowed them to provide undisturbed clinical services in an exceptional situation.

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Section: Application and Effectiveness Of Telepractice: Current Findingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Telepractice as a Reaction to the COVID-19 Crisis: Insights from Croatian SLP Settings

2020

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“…autism spectrum disorder (ASD; Sutherland et al, 2018) and dysarthria (Hill et al, 2006). There is additional research to support telerehabilitation interventions for fluency disorders (McGill et al, 2018), dysphagia (Coyle, 2012), and voice disorders (Rangarathnam et al, 2016). For occupational therapy, telerehabilitation has long been touted as an emerging, promising area of practice that may alleviate problems such as patient access, cost of services, and allow practitioners to intervene within the natural environment (Cason, 2014;Eckberg Zylstra, 2013).…”

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Feasibility and Acceptability of Clinical Pediatric Telerehabilitation Services

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Objective: Telerehabilitation has long been recognized as a promising means of providing pediatric services; however, significant barriers such as cost, payor reimbursement, and access prevented widespread use. The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated rapid adoption of telerehabilitation into clinical practice to provide access to care while maintaining social distancing. The purpose of this study is to present clinical data on the feasibility and acceptability of speech-language pathology, developmental occupational and physical therapies, and sports and orthopedic therapies telerehabilitation delivered in a pediatric hospital setting. Methods: Telerehabilitation services were rapidly implemented in three stages: building the foundation, implementing, and refining this service delivery model. Paper patient satisfaction surveys were administered as part of ongoing quality improvement efforts throughout 2019 and were adapted for online administration in 2020 for telerehabilitation patients. Outpatient visit counts by type (in-person, phone, and video) were extracted from the electronic medical record using data warehousing techniques. Results: Historical patient satisfaction rates from 2019 indicated high patient satisfaction (98.97% positive responses); these results were maintained for telerehabilitation visits (97.73%), indicating that families found telerehabilitation services acceptable. Patient volume returned to 73.5% of pre-pandemic volume after the implementation of telerehabilitation services. Conclusions: Pediatric telerehabilitation is feasible to provide in clinical settings, and the services are acceptable to patient families. Future work is needed to evaluate the impact of telerehabilitation services on patient care and applications for ongoing use of this delivery model.

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“…Louis, 1997 ;St. Louis & Durrenberger, 1993 ), connecting a person who stutters to an SLP who specializes in stuttering may improve the treatment outcomes and/or provide more individualized treatment options (McGill et al, 2019).…”

Section: Telepracticementioning

confidence: 99%

“…A recent systematic review by McGill et al (2019) of seven studies including 80 participants who stutter highlighted that speech therapy services using telepractice using a variety of formats (i.e., purely telepractice or a hybrid, in-person and telepractice) as well as populations (i.e., children, adolescents and adults) appeared to produce positive outcomes for the treatment of stuttering and showed promise for future research.…”

Section: Stuttering and Telepracticementioning

confidence: 99%