Abstract
A telepractice survey was administered to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Special Interest Group 18 Telepractice affiliates and attendees of the Waldo County General Hospital Speech-Language Pathology Telepractice Training program in Maine, USA over the summer of 2016. Sixty-seven respondents completed the survey. The survey explored demographics of clients and clinicians, costs and equipment, learning opportunities, use of the client’s environment and caregivers/e-helpers, and method adaptations in telepractice. The results of the survey provide information on the current state of telepractice methods in speech-language pathology from experienced practitioners. This information may be used to develop telepractice models and to prepare speech-language pathology graduate students in the delivery of telepractice methods.
Highlights
Half of the respondents reported consulting with other professionals about clients without the client or caregiver present and half of the respondents indicated that telepractice was being used for follow up or monitoring of previously learned skills
Reasons given for using a hybrid approach versus telepractice only were: requirements of the state, professional judgment based on initial interview and assessment, distance, computer skills, and parent/caregiver involvement
As telepractice models are designed and speech-language pathology (SLP) graduate programs facilitate training in telepractice, some key issues need to be addressed that were highlighted from the results of the current survey
Summary
The survey explored demographics of clients and clinicians, costs and equipment, learning opportunities, use of the client’s environment and caregivers/e-helpers, and method adaptations in telepractice. The 2015 graduate school survey (Grogan-Johnson et al, 2015), reported that 26% of graduate programs were providing telepractice training; only 6.9% of respondents
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