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Guideline for telepractice in speech-language pathology and audiology

in children ≤ 12 years

Guideline

The telepractice guideline for speech-language pathology and audiology in children ≤ 12 years is available! This guideline contains tools for the optimal use of telepractice  with children and their parents.

With the financial support of the Federal Authority for Public Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment, the telepractice guideline for speech-language pathology and audiology for children was developed within the Evikey network.

 

PROJECT STAFF

This project was a collaboration between the Federal Authority for Public Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment, Thomas More, UCLouvain and Uliège. We were supported during the process by the network of Evikey.

Guideline development group

  • dr. Sabine Van Eerdenbrugh, speech-language pathologist & audiologist, Department of Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology,  Research Unit Human & Well-being, Thomas More
  • prof. dr. Jolijn Vanderauwera, speech-language pathologist & audiologist, Department of Speech-Language Pathology, UCLouvain
  • dr. Heleen Leysen, speech-language pathologist, Department of Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology, Research Unit Human & Well-being, Thomas More
  • Leen Bouckaert, occupational therapist, Artevelde 
  • dr. Femke Vandenbempt, speech-language pathologist, UCLouvain
  • dr. Anne-Lise Leclercq, speech-language pathologist, Uliège
  • dr. Wendy D’haenens, audiologist, Department of Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology, Research Unit Human & Well-being, Thomas More

 Stakeholders

A group of speech therapists and audiologists, other healthcare professionals and teachers and parents and children helped us during this process.

Experts

  • dr. Tom Van Daele, psychologist, Department of Applied Psychology, Research Unit Human & Well-being, Thomas More
  • prof. dr. Kurt Eggers, speech-language pathologist, Department of Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology, Research Unit Human & Well-being, Thomas More & University of Gent
  • dr. Nicolas Verhaert, Neus-Keel-Oor arts; Faculty of Medecine, KULeuven/UZLeuven 
  • dr. Nancy Durieux, psycholoog, Uliège
  • dr. Sofie De Smet, general practitioner, Kind & Gezin

Researchers of Thomas More

Researcher

Sabine Van Eerdenbrugh

Sabine Van Eerdenbrugh (PhD) has been a lecturer-researcher in the People and Well-being research group since 2014. An expert in stuttering, she is a member of the international LPTC and EBPracticeNet (Cebam).

Researcher

Wendy D'haenens

Wendy D'haenens (PhD) has been a lecturer-researcher in the People and Well-being research group since 2016. She is an expert in subjective and objective evaluation of hearing, (classroom) acoustics and ICF (WHO) applications within speech therapy

Researcher

Heleen Leysen

Heleen Leysen (PhD) has been a lecturer-researcher in the People and Well-being Research Group since 2014. She has expertise in language development disorders in multilingual children.

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