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Guidelines for Developing Telehealth Services and Troubleshooting Problems with Telehealth Technology When Coaching Parents to Conduct Functional Analyses and Functional Communication Training in Their Homes

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The researchers in the project used telehealth to conduct functional analyses and functional communication training in homes of children diagnosed with autism who displayed problem behavior. Parents conducted all assessment and treatment procedures within their homes while receiving coaching from applied behavior analysts located approximately 200 miles away from them. In this article, the researchers summarize the technical systems they used to develop a telehealth service and the concerns and problems they have encountered using telehealth and provide some guidelines for how to troubleshoot those problems.

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Acknowledgments

This investigation was supported by Grant R40MC22644 from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the grant agency. The authors express their appreciation to the participants and their families.

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  1. Center for Disabilities and Development, The University of Iowa Children’s Hospital, 100 Hawkins Dr. Room 251, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA

    John F. Lee, Kelly M. Schieltz & Alyssa N. Suess

  2. Stead Family Department of Pediatrics, The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, The University of Iowa Children’s Hospital, Iowa City, IA, USA

    David P. Wacker, Patrick W. Romani, Scott D. Lindgren & Todd G. Kopelman

  3. Virginia Institute of Autism, Charlottesville, VA, USA

    Yaniz C. Padilla Dalmau

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Lee, J.F., Schieltz, K.M., Suess, A.N. et al. Guidelines for Developing Telehealth Services and Troubleshooting Problems with Telehealth Technology When Coaching Parents to Conduct Functional Analyses and Functional Communication Training in Their Homes. Behav Analysis Practice 8, 190–200 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-014-0031-2

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