reSearch vol. 4, Issue 1: Telerehabilitation

Paper describes a proposed teletherapy architecture for speech/language therapy, discusses the current state of the architecture, and describes future efforts in development and evaluation. Virtual CosmoBot is a motivating, computer-based character designed to enhance children’s communication skills and stimulate verbal interaction during the remediation of speech and language disorders via telerehabilitation. The proposed architecture provides two types of telemonitoring: (a) simultaneous monitoring, where the therapist monitors the child “live” and the child and therapist are communicating via telemedicine technology, and (b) store-andforward monitoring, where the therapist monitors the child after the child has completed a therapy session. This paper was presented at the 2006 annual conference of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA) and is available on CD-ROM. Carignan, Craig, R., & Krebs, Hermano, I. (2006). Telerehabilitation robotics: Bright lights, big future? Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development (JRRD), 43(5), 695-710. NARIC Accession Number: J51746 ABSTRACT: Article examines the future of using roArticle examines the future of using robotic technology to provide rehabilitation services over the Internet. Current trends in telerehabilitation systems are reviewed, the technical challenges still facing researchers are described, and some promising results are presented for a new bilateral system in which both the patient and the therapist use robots to interact with each other over the Internet. The future directions and commercial outlook for rehabilitation robots over the next 15 years are discussed. Chase, Susan, L., Danilko, Nick, Demuth, Barb, McCue, Michael, Pramuka, Michael, & van Roosmalen, Linda. (2006). Telerehabilitation and vocational rehabilitation: Supported self-employment using webbased applications. 29th Annual RESNA Confer-