Does speech therapy via telepractice work? I know there are people skeptical about the efficacy of speech therapy via telepractice and I know that the abrupt shift from in person speech therapy services within the schools to speech therapy services via telepractice when schools went remote due to COVID-19 allowed little to no planning or training time for speech-language pathologists and may have given families a bad impression of speech therapy via telepractice. This is not to say that my speech-language pathologist colleagues did not rise to the occasion and adapt to the telepractice treatment modality like champions but I do acknowledge that it is difficult to be thrown into a different treatment modality, especially during a pandemic and while managing many moving parts. If your first impression of speech therapy via telepractice was when things were in crisis mode and it did not meet your expectations, I hope you give this treatment modality a second chance because there is scientific evidence that speech therapy via telepractice works.

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