Research: The Use of Videotape Self-Monitoring to Facilitate Interactive Intervention in Speech-Language Therapy with Preschool Children with Autism

Authored by Longtin, SE, and Fabus RL in The Clinical Supervisor, Volume 27, Issue 1, p. 111-133, (2008).

Article summary (posted Jan 19, 2009):

Videotaping speech sessions may help speech therapists improve their treatment with all clients, including those with autism.

One of the ways that speech therapists learn to do speech therapy is by being observed and coached by a senior speech therapist. This study was designed to see if videotaping speech therapy sessions allows the therapist to provide self feedback and improve future therapy sessions. It was hoped that by watching the videotape, therapists would have time to reflect on their actions after the session was over. It was hoped that the videotape would also allow a new therapist to monitor himself or herself without formal oversight by another therapist. This approach was used as part of the Department of Speech Communications Arts and Sciences at the Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. The study had only two therapists.

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