Telehealth Evaluations
A conversation about how telehealth evaluations actually work
Brian Lopez, Ph.D., BCBA | Jaye Turrietta, PsyD, BCBA-D | Clinician Conversation | 47 Min Video
Two of our clinicians, Dr. Brian Lopez and Dr. Jaye Turrietta, sat down to talk through how diagnostic evaluations work over telehealth, and what the format lets a clinician see. They get into the things that are hard to capture in a traditional setting: how much energy it takes to mask, why being at home can change what shows up, and why clear direction often matters more than a label on its own.
It’s an unhurried conversation. A few topics you might want to land on:
References mentioned in this conversation
The ECHO model
Developed by Dr. Sanjeev Arora at the University of New Mexico. https://hsc.unm.edu/echo/
On telehealth autism evaluation accuracy (Vanderbilt TELE-ASD-PEDS)
Juarez, A.P., et al. (2018). Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-3524-y
Corona, L., Wagner, L., et al. (2020). Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04767-y
On the “lollipop” study referenced
Estrada, C.A., Isen, A.M., & Young, M.J. (1997). Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. https://doi.org/10.1006/obhd.1997.2734