Using Telehealth to Conduct Family-Centered, Movement Intervention Research in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Corina Cleffi, Wan-Chun Su, Sudha Srinivasan, Anjana Bhat
PMID 35184077WHAT IT FOUND
No results to act on.
This is a description of how one team moved a face-to-face movement study for children with autism online during COVID-19, including the games, the equipment families were sent and the videoconferencing problems they hit.
What this paper is
This is a brief report in which a research team describes how they moved an ongoing face-to-face movement intervention study for children with autism spectrum disorder into a home-based telehealth format during the COVID-19 lockdowns. It explains the goal-oriented movement games they used, the household equipment families were sent and the picture cards and videos made for them, how parents were brought in as co-therapists and prompters, and the practical problems they ran into with videoconferencing, unstable internet and holding a child's attention on screen. It reports no participants, no outcomes and no results from the trial itself, so there is nothing here to change your practice on.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence that telehealth movement intervention works for children with autism. It is a description of how a study was adapted, the trial itself has reported no outcomes, and the authors state that the effects of telehealth compared with face-to-face intervention still remain to be studied.
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