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The Efficacy Of Tele-Practice On Expressive Language Outcomes For Adults With Aphasia, Erin Fifield, Morgan Bailey, Lauren Burningham Jan 2018

The Efficacy Of Tele-Practice On Expressive Language Outcomes For Adults With Aphasia, Erin Fifield, Morgan Bailey, Lauren Burningham

Communication Sciences and Disorders: Systematic Review Publications

Access to skilled speech and language intervention can be difficult for individuals residing in rural areas as well as for individuals with complex health and mobility issues. Telehealth (including therapy and rehabilitation) can provide effective services in the context of one’s home, allowing clinicians to reach a wider population of individuals.
Purpose: To determine whether tele-practice service delivery produces positive expressive language outcomes that are comparable to direct service delivery for adults with aphasia.
Method:
A variety of databases were searched utilizing systematic inclusionary and exclusionary criteria. Research focused on adults over the age of 18 with a formal diagnosis …