The global spread of the COVID-19 virus has changed the say of life of many people, which has also affected the language rehabilitation service environment. Due to the spread of social distancing, the method of telepractice service is gradually attrac...
The global spread of the COVID-19 virus has changed the say of life of many people, which has also affected the language rehabilitation service environment. Due to the spread of social distancing, the method of telepractice service is gradually attracting attention. The purpose of this study was to investigate changes in the field of language rehabilitation services due to the COVID-19 outbreak and the perceptions of speech-language pathologists regarding telepractice services.
For this purpose, a qualitative study was conducted through individual in-depth interviews with 8 speech-language pathologists. The study participants selected speech-language pathologists from Daegu and Gyongbuk, who had experience in speech therapy before the outbreak of COVID-19. As a result of analyzing the data collected after the interview, there are three main themes: ‘Change in language rehabilitation services due to the COVID-19 outbreak’, ‘ Telepractice services’, and ‘Prediction and preparation for the language rehabilitation service environment after COVID-19’, and 9 sub-themes, 126 concepts were derived.
Due to the epidemic of COVID-19, speech-language pathologists were able to find out what changes they experienced in the field of language rehabilitation services in detail. This study is meaningful in that it is a useful research data amid the growing need for remote language rehabilitation services due to the spread of infectious diseases, and will be helpful as basic data for the development of telepractice services.