Videofeedback-guided teleintervention for the family of a child with a cochlear implant: a case study.
Ingrid Rafaella Dantas Dos Santos, Wanderson Laerte de Oliveira Carvalho, Joseli Soares Brazorotto
PMID 37991028WHAT IT FOUND
In one case, 10 sessions of video feedback teleintervention helped a mother improve her communication with her child.
The child showed reliable improvement in vocabulary, but did not reach typical levels. This change happened alongside ongoing speech therapy, so the video feedback's specific effect cannot be isolated.
Key findings
01The mother's general communicative competence improved from low to excellent over the course of the intervention sessions.
02The child showed reliable positive change in receptive and expressive vocabulary, but these scores did not reach clinical significance or match the non-clinical population.
03The family continued to receive individual and group speech therapy sessions throughout the study period.
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What it does not show
This is a single-case report, so the findings cannot be generalized to other families or children. The child received concurrent individual and group speech therapy, so it is impossible to separate the effect of the video feedback from the standard care. The intervention was very short (10 sessions over two weeks), which may not be enough to produce lasting or clinically significant changes in language. The mother had high self-esteem and low parental stress at the start, which may have made her more responsive to the intervention than other caregivers.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that video feedback teleintervention alone improves a child's language. The child in this study also received weekly individual and group speech therapy, so the specific contribution of the video feedback cannot be separated from the standard care. Additionally, while the child's vocabulary scores improved reliably, they did not reach the level of typical peers.