Her mother is a coordinator of speech-language services for the Baltimore City Public Schools.
Treatment intensity is a critical component to the delivery of speech-language pathology and rehabilitation services.
Although speech-language pathology services lend themselves to telerehab applications, these are relatively new to the field of speech-language pathology.
Telerehabilitation in the field of speech-language pathology has increasingly been endorsed as an appropriate model of service delivery by professional organizations in different countries.
We categorized the communication ability documentation notes into four categories: (1) description of the patient's communication abilities, (2) description of the communication methods the patient used or that the provider recommended the patient to use, (3) referral to speech-language pathology services, and (4) discussion of medical management of the patient's speech abilities.
Cleft palate is the most common type of innate craniofacial anomaly, which requires multidisciplinary treatment approach, including physical palatal correction, feeding management, orthodontic management, and speech-language services.
Of the notes that included documentation of communication abilities, 56% (n = 655) described the patient's abilities, 52% (n = 605) described the method the patient used to communicate, 10% (n = 116) discussed medical management of the patient's speech, and finally 10% (n = 116) were a referral to speech-language pathology services.
Rehabilitation services: significant differences were found in the types and intensity of rehabilitation services provided; these included physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech-language pathology, but not psychology.
Other recommended services might include occupational or physical therapy and speech-language therapy.
[ Proceedings of the 1999 Nederlands Annual Speech-Language Association Meeting].
