Can Telehealth Fill the Gap in Autism Services?
From: Medical Design Technology - 05/24/2016

Parents struggling to find and afford therapy for their child with autism may
eventually be able to provide that therapy themselves with the help of
telehealth training.

Findings from a federally funded pilot study on telehealth training at
Michigan State University show the online program successfully helped parents
of children with autism improve their child's social communication using
research-based intervention techniques.

Further research is under way at MSU, but the findings offer hope that
telehealth - or the delivery of health services and information via the
Internet and related technologies - can fill a massive need.

Results indicate that telehealth training benefited parents and children in
both groups. Parents saw improvement in their child's social communication
skills and their own competence regardless of which group they were in,
although parents who received therapist assistance made greater gains in
their ability to use the intervention techniques.

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