Volume 15, Number 2, Summer 2020

Challenges and Quasi Solutions While Working Through the COVID-19 Pandemic: Out-patient Pediatric Speech-Language Pathology in a Hospital Setting

AUTHOR(S):

  • Tommie L. Robinson, Jr., PhD, CCC-SLP, Children’s National Hospital, Scottish Rite Center for Childhood Language Disorders, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA
  • Debra Anderson, EdD, CCC-SLP
  • Maura Collins, M.S., CCC-SLP, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
  • Margarita Bautista-Vigas, M.S., CCC-SLP, Children’s National Hospital, Scottish Rite Center for Childhood Language Disorders, Washington, DC, USA

ABSTRACT

Speech-language pathologists, who work in medical settings, may have questions about service delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article will focus on questions and possible solutions that speech-language pathologists who work in an outpatient pediatric medical setting had while delivering services to children during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Information regarding safety, clinical-changes, licensure, legal issues, and productivity/Budgetary impact will be addressed.

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