Perceptions of School-Based Telehealth in a Rural State: Moving Forward After COVID-19
The purpose of this study was to discern the barriers faced by school-based clinicians, chiefly occupational therapists (OTs) and speech-language pathologists (SLPs) who provided telehealth in a primarily rural state during an unexpected declaration of a state of emergency in response to the C...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Hawaii Pacific University Library
2021-05-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Telerehabilitation |
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| Online Access: | http://telerehab.pitt.edu/ojs/Telerehab/article/view/6370 |
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The purpose of this study was to discern the barriers faced by school-based clinicians, chiefly occupational therapists (OTs) and speech-language pathologists (SLPs) who provided telehealth in a primarily rural state during an unexpected declaration of a state of emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Survey results found the major barriers to implementation of telehealth services to be lack of practitioner training, a lack of access to technology for students, and concerns that the quality of intervention might not be equivalent to in-person service delivery. This article discusses both the benefits and barriers to providing telehealth services in school-based practice and offers considerations for future studies on this topic.
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| ISSN: | 1945-2020 |