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scarce. In the area of sensory impairment, studies conducted primarily in
the field of deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) (Behl et al., 2017; Blaiser et al.,
2013) have shown positive outcomes in the use of telepractice to provide
EI services to families and to address concerns related to personnel
shortages, equity in the access to EI services for families, and cost
efficiency.
Even though the use of teleintervention to provide specialized
instruction/services for very young children with VI and their families in EI is
in its infancy, EI programs and providers who are interested in learning
more about teleintervention will find the resources in this section helpful.
The National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management (NCHAM)
at Utah State University offers training courses and a resource guide to
help support EI programs and providers who are interested in learning
more about and implementing teleintervention. Three courses are
available: teleintervention for administrators, teleintervention for providers,
and teleintervention for families. The online courses can be found on the
NCHAM website at http://www.infanthearing.org/ti101/index.html. The
resource guide presents the following information: an introduction to
teleintervention, the benefits and challenges of teleintervention; training
and implementation of teleintervention sessions; technology to support
