Using iChat for Telepractice and Remote Service Delivery

By Ricky Buchanan • May 18, 2008

Lon has a great new article about some of the issues around remote service delivery and telepractice for special education providers. Using some of the features built into OS X Leopard - iChat’s new screen sharing as well as the video conferencing - on broadband internet connections means the up-front costs of providing remote services are greatly reduced. A quote from one of their specialists:

We are using new Macs and iChat to share the desktop with some of our long-distant students remotely to do speech services.

The article discusses telepractice in terms of issues rather than the technological side, but it’s good to see that people understand the advantages of using Mac computers for this!

Website: Rising Fuel Cost Solution found in Telepractice and Remote Service Delivery for Regional Services

- Ricky Buchanan, ATMac

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Ricky Buchanan

Ricky Buchanan is 34 years old and the founder and main writer for ATMac. She's bedridden with severe CFS/ME or perhaps a primary mitochondrial disorder - the doctors are not sure. When she's not working on ATMac or her other websites she composes music, listens to audio books, does other disability advocacy, watches TV with her flatmate, and enjoys her cat.

2 Comments For “Using iChat for Telepractice and Remote Service Delivery”

Lon Thornburg May 19th, 2008 at 11:55 am

Thanks Ricky,
I wes fascinated with the topic - my next purchase might be a Mac to work with the ichat feature. I think you are the expert to tap for ideas on using it.
Lon
rickybuchanan May 20th, 2008 at 2:13 am

@Lon: I would certainly be thrilled to work with you on the iChat - it’s honestly not something I’ve used before so it would be a great learning experience for us both!

Ricky

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