The COVID-19 pandemic and the implementation of telehealth in speech-language and hearing therapy for patients at home: an experience report.

We present an experience report on the implementation of real-time telehealth in speech-language and hearing therapy for patients who were previously seen on an outpatient basis in a primary health care service. The Speech-Language Therapy (SLT) team was monitoring twenty-five users when the first cases of COVID-19 were notified in southern Brazil. Of these, it was judged that twelve patients required at least a monitoring call every two weeks.

Causality and Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences: epidemiological approach.

Purpose: To review the Speech-Language Pathology literature studies from the epidemiology and causality perspective.

Research Strategies: A national and international literature survey was carried out with searches from PubMed, SciELO and gray literature bases, conducted according to the instructions of the Cochrane Collaboration and published until January 9th, 2019. The review guiding question asks if Speech-Language Pathology uses methods in their evidence to infer causality.