Ekberg2020
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Ekberg2020 |
| Author(s) | Stuart Ekberg, Sandra Houen, Belinda Fisher, Maryanne Theobald, Sandra Houen, Susan Danby |
| Title | Engaging young children in speech and language therapy via videoconferencing |
| Editor(s) | Christopher M. Hayre, Dave Muller, Marcia Scherer |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, speech language pathology, young children, play-based therapy, telehealth, videoconferencing |
| Publisher | CRC Press |
| Year | 2020 |
| Language | English |
| City | Boca Raton |
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| Pages | 175-192 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1201/9781351032186-10 |
| ISBN | 9781138491700 |
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| Book title | Everyday Technologies in Healthcare |
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Abstract
Early intervention for young children with speech and language difficulties is increasingly delivered via everyday technologies such as videoconferencing. Utilising these technologies increases the accessibility of specialist services for people who cannot physically access these services. The delivery of play-based therapeutic interventions that suit this population can, however, encounter practical challenges when delivered via telehealth. For instance, videoconferencing does not enable speech language therapists and child clients to share physical access to play-based therapeutic objects. This conversation analytic study uses recordings of actual therapy sessions conducted with young children via videoconferencing to identify the strategies that therapists use to facilitate the playful use of objects for therapeutic purposes. The findings of this study support practical recommendations, such as considering, in advance, ways in which the use of an object might be modified to suit the affordances and constraints of a particular telehealth medium.
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