Views of Speech-Language Pathologists on Telepractice for Children Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication.

Emerson et al. (2023) sent an online survey to speech-language pathologists. They asked how the SLPs felt about doing telepractice with kids who use aided AAC. The survey also asked who had taken AAC telepractice training and when.

Views were mixed. Some SLPs liked remote AAC work, others did not. The big clue: SLPs who had recent AAC telepractice training saw the work more positively than those without it.

Maingi et al. (2025) asked Indian SLPs about AAC barriers and also heard "we need more training." The two surveys echo each other: training boosts comfort, no matter the country.

Howard et al. (2023) scouted every telehealth-for-ASD paper and noted most studies skip teens, adults, and fine-grained skill reports. Emerson et al. (2023) fills one gap by asking SLPs about AAC-specific telepractice, but it keeps the same blind spot: it does not break results down by client age or skill level.

Barkaia et al. (2017) and Peters et al. (2023) prove telehealth coaching can work; kids talked more and caregivers used language strategies. E’s survey shows SLPs will only trust these positive outcomes if they have been trained themselves.

If you run or supervise AAC services, book short, hands-on telepractice CE now. One training session predicted better SLP attitude in this study. Pair that training with the remote coaching steps from Barkaia et al. (2017) and Peters et al. (2023) so your team both accepts telehealth and delivers it well.