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Telepractice: A Wide-Angle View for Persons with Hearing Loss.

This paper presents the current status of telepractice as a service delivery model for persons with hearing loss. Telepractice can be broadly viewed as the delivery of preventative, habilitation, or rehabilitation services through telecommunications technology. Telemedicine and telehealth are closel...

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Published in:Volta Review Vol. 112; no. 3; pp. 207 - 227
Main Authors: Cohn, Ellen R., Cason, Jana
Format: review Journal Article
Published: Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf Winter2012
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          Cohn, Ellen R.
          Cason, Jana
        affil: Associate Dean, instructional development, School for Health and Rehabilitative Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
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          Telehealth
          Health Care Delivery Methods
          Hearing Disorders
          Speech-Language Pathology
          Professional Practice
          Early Childhood Intervention
          Technology
      ab: This paper presents the current status of telepractice as a service delivery model for persons with hearing loss. Telepractice can be broadly viewed as the delivery of preventative, habilitation, or rehabilitation services through telecommunications technology. Telemedicine and telehealth are closely aligned to telepractice, often with overlapping nomenclature, function, and common delivery systems. The technologies for telepractice are potentially but "a click away" for persons with hearing loss and their families. However, a full realization of this delivery model's benefits, barriers, and limitations is just beginning to emerge. On the professional side, challenges include the need for ethical, privacy, and other policy issues to keep pace with advances in technology; moreover, services provided via telepractice are not uniformly reimbursed. With the exception of federally-based practice settings, state licensure requirements do not efficiently engender interstate license portability and reciprocity. On the consumer-side, the challenges are to recognize the power of telepractice and acquire the knowledge to become informed consumers.
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