Potentials of Telerehabilitation for Families of Children With Special Health Care Needs During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Emergency —Reply

In Reply We appreciate the comments from Provenzi and Borgatti, who offer perspectives on telerehabilitation solutions during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in response to our article. As our article noted that children with special health care needs might be more likely to have COVID-19 –related complications, these pediatric neurologists who learned early from Italy’s difficult COVID-19 experience note how families of children who use specialized rehabilitation centers benefitted from telerehabilitation services to mitigate the “hopelessness” resulting from the necessary C OVID-19 social isolation. As this pandemic unfolds, we agree that a specialized approach to tailor the delivery of pediatric care is needed. We encourage this kind of innovation for pediatric care because children and their families will require novel approaches to medical management and engagement.
Source: JAMA Pediatrics - Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research