Rural School Offers Model in Telehealth.

In Oklahoma, Technology Helps Enhance Services Rural school districts often face high hurdles in providing speech-language pathology services--small budgets, heavy caseloads and requirements for frequent travel--which translate into difficulty recruiting and retaining qualified providers.

But in one small town in Oklahoma, the school district decided to take a step forward, not backward, in solving the problem. After weathering nearly three years without a full-time, certified speech-language pathologist (SLP), the Hugo, OK, school district upped the salary last year and ...

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