Teletherapy Resources for Related Service Providers

Foundations of Telehealth

Anna Wallisch, PhD, OTR/L & Lauren M. Little, PhD, OTR/L

The purpose of this webinar is to provide an overview of telehealth and review the basics. Specific objectives include:

1. Define telehealth

2. Carry out the 5 components of a telehealth session

3. Describe the evidence related to telehealth

4. Answer frequently asked questions about telehealth and dispel myths of telehealth

Troubleshooting Telehealth Sessions

Lauren M. Little, PhD, OTR/L & Anna Wallisch, PhD, OTR/L

The purpose of this webinar is to provide information about how to use family’s strengths and children’s interests to promote engagement in a telehealth session. We also provide an overview of how to use behavior management strategies via telehealth. Specific objectives include:

1. Identify how to use child and family strengths to promote engagement in telehealth sessions

2. Implement strategies to address behavior management via telehealth

3. Use coaching strategies to engage parents/caregivers in difficult telehealth sessions.

Activities for OT Interventions

Lauren M. Little, PhD, OTR/L & Anna Wallisch, PhD, OTR/L

The purpose of this webinar is to provide an overview of how occupational therapy interventions may be implemented via telehealth. The specific objective is to describe how to implement telehealth intervention sessions to address:

1. Sensory Processing & Self-Regulation

2. Self-Care

3. Fine Motor & Visual Perception

4. Gross Motor

5. Literacy

6. Executive Functioning.

OT Progress Monitoring

Anna Wallisch, PhD, OTR/L & Lauren M. Little, PhD, OTR/L

The purpose of this webinar is to offer ideas and strategies about how occupational therapists may collect data to support progress monitoring while using telehealth. Specific objectives include:

1. Identify differences of progress monitoring via telehealth.

2. Articulate how to coach a caregiver through a situation in which you gather data to support a child’s progress toward a goal.

3. Identify the types of data you can collect through observation over videoconferencing to support progress monitoring.

4. Articulate how you can use caregiver data to support progress monitoring.

Telethealth SLP Interventions

Kate Eichstadt M.S. CCC-SLP & Kristen E. Vincent, M.A. CCC-SLP

The purpose of this webinar is to offer tips, strategies, and examples of how to use telehealth to deliver speech therapy interventions. Specific objectives include:

1. Describe how to approach conducting a successful telehealth session, from pre-session to post-session.

2. Describe a process to apply various speech-language therapy interventions across communication domains through telehealth.

3. Describe troubleshooting and problem solving considerations and other concerns.

Speech Therapy Progress Monitoring via Telehealth

Kate Eichstadt M.S. CCC-SLP & Kristen E. Vincent, M.A. CCC-SLP

The purpose of this webinar is to provide information about how speech therapists may gather data from multiple sources via telehealth to inform progress monitoring. Specific objectives include:

1. Discuss how to use clinical and behavioral observations to monitor progress via telehealth.

2. Identify the important role of parent participation in progress monitoring.

3. Identify methods of data collection and informal assessment via telehealth.