Teleconsultoria Assíncrona com Fonoaudiólogos de Crianças com Deficiência Auditiva: Relato de Casos

Abstract

The training of professionals specialized in the area of (re)habilitation for hard of hea-ring children is a challenge that can be faced with the tools of Telehealth. In this sense, the aims of this case study were: to evaluate the effect of the asynchronous teleconsulting on the quality of Aurioral therapy for hard of hearing children, as well as to analyze the satisfaction of speech therapists with tele-consulting in the asynchronous model. From the analysis of fifteen sessions of speech therapies of two speech therapists of a hea-ring health service of Rio Grande do Norte accredited to the Unified Health System, the scores of the instrument of quality analysis of Aurioral therapy were compared in the pre and post moments the teleconsulting. The analysis of the therapy videos was per-formed independently by two researchers and the reliability criterion was established for this analysis. It was also investigated the satisfaction of speech therapists with the teleconsulting service offered. The results indicated an index of reliable change in the quality of Aurioral therapy after asynchro-nous teleconsultation. Speech-language pathologists evaluated positively the asyn-chronous teleconsulting, indicating their satisfaction with it. The asynchronous tele-consulting produced positive effects in the Aurioral therapies analyzed, with the impro-vement of the quality of the service offered to hard of hearing children