Early Intervention Service Delivery via Telehealth During COVID-19: A Research-Practice Partnership
| Autor: | Anna Wallisch, Lauren Little, Elaine Tierney, Jessica Kronberg |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Occupational therapy
medicine.medical_specialty Service delivery framework Best practice Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics education R858-859.7 Health Informatics Telehealth Coaching Goal Attainment Scaling Health Information Management Nursing Occupational Therapy medicine Community-based Clinical Practice-COVID 19 Education Act business.industry Rehabilitation Early Intervention Computer Science Applications Family-focused General partnership Research-Practice Partnerships business Psychology |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Telerehabilitation International Journal of Telerehabilitation, Vol 13, Iss 1 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 1945-2020 |
| Popis: | Coaching has been identified as a best practice for early intervention (EI) services provided through the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Part C. The current study describes the establishment and progress of a research-relationship partnership to deliver coaching via telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Community-based EI providers implemented 9-weeks of telehealth coaching and evaluated the extent to which child and caregiver outcomes differed between families that had previously received in-person services versus telehealth only. Four EI providers completed the intervention with n=17 families of children aged 6-34 months during the pandemic (April-August 2020). We used the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) and Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS) to collect outcomes on caregiver identified goals; we used Wilcoxon Signed Rank Tests to examine pre- to post-intervention data. Results showed significant improvements in parent satisfaction, child performance, and goal attainment (all p |
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