Last Modified: 06/21/2023
Fact Sheet: Empowerment and Confidence
Key Points:
- When a provider starts to use the telepractice platform, it may take some time for the provider to become comfortable giving the parents the lead role in parent-child activities. It may take time for the provider to gain confidence in being a coach. Providers need sufficient experience to learn to integrate goals and objectives of a session using the props in the family’s home.
- In a Colorado self report study, 85% of providers indicated that the family is at least as involved in the telepractice sessions as they are in in-person sessions.
- In the same Colorado study, 33% of providers indicated that the family is more involved in the telepractice sessions than in in-person sessions.
- In telepractice sessions, the family is more in control of the session, and, therefore, has more “ownership” of what they are doing to support their child’s development.
- Using telepractice, the provider can learn ways to integrate strategies into a family’s typical routines. For instance, the family may be making a snack. This is an opportunity to include the caregiver’s or parent’s use of listening, speech, and/or language strategies.
Research:
Behl, D., Blaiser, K., Cook, G., Barrett, T., Callow-Heusser, C., Moog Brooks, B., Dawson, P., Quigley, S., & White, K. R. (2017). A multisite study evaluating the benefits of early intervention via telepractice. Infants & Young Children, 30, 147-161. doi: 10.1097/IYC.0000000000000090
Brown, A. S. (2015). Examination of early intervention delivered via telepractice with families of children who are deaf or hard of hearing (Doctoral dissertation). University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO.
Cole, B., Pickard, K., Stredler-Brown, A. (2019). Report on the use of telehealth in early intervention in Colorado: Strengths and challenges with telehealth as a service delivery method. International Journal of Telerehabilitation, 11:1, 33-40. doi: https://doi.org/10.5195/ijt.2019.6273
Corona L. L. , Stainbrook J. A., Simcoe K., Wagner L., Fowler B., Weitlauf A. S., Juárez A. P., & Warren Z. (2021). Utilization of telemedicine to support caregivers of young children with ASD and their Part C service providers: a comparison of intervention outcomes across three models of service delivery. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 13(38), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s11689-021-09387-w
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This resource was developed by the NCHAM Tele-Intervention Learning Community
