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This research deals with the tele-rehabilitation service for children with disabilities in a post-Covid-19 era. There has been a boom with new working models and adaptation to new challenges and experiences of professionals in rehabilitation therapies. With such services as the most effective way to treat psychomotor deficits in children with disabilities, Rehabilitation Centers have reconfigured their planning by offering hybrid care, but there is a lack of integration of ICT for the delivery of these services through agile approaches. Under an Action-Design methodology, a survey was designed and applied to therapists from five Rehabilitation Centers in Mexico;focused on knowing four relevant aspects: Rehabilitation Teleworking;ICT in therapeutic activity;Communication between parents and Rehabilitation centers;and Patients. From the result, it can be inferred that there is a high level of interest at THE initial education in technological training and a need for higher quality stimulation tools and resources.
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In Mexico there are units of consultants that help schools to make students with special needs be included in regular education they provide the necessary help to enhance the learning process. Their work implies adapting the learning methodology, complementing the planned academic activities, adapting learning goals to the students' needs, providing specific technological tools, analyze the knowledge acquisition, etc. Additionally, there are many factors that can affect these goals and complicate the whole intervention process. The COVID-19 pandemic is making attitudinal changes of students, together with the long academic brake, and the forced on-line learning. Together, consultants, teachers, parents, and scientists have analyzed gaps in the intervention process of the supporting units, related with collaboration, teamwork, adaptations in activities and knowledge acquisition, and proposed a solution to it. In this chapter, the authors present Scrum process as a feasible solution, making easy and stronger the collaboration, role definition, and goals prioritization. © 2021, IGI Global.
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Introduction. In this paper we review the change that the psychomotor deficit’s children rehabilitation system has had to further adapt due to the COVID-19 pandemic, explaining the importance of early care with the support of computer technologies. Because of the health emergency, many patients with a motor disability couldn’t assist to the places that provided therapy services of various kinds, joined to the fact that therapists also had to avoid crowds in their rehabilitation centers and thus not spread the virus in this vulnerable population. Methodology. The approach used is a mixed approach, with children of 0 to 5 years old diagnosed with psychomotor deficit due to a development disorder which are coursing initial education as the objects of study. The instruments used have been observation with action research. Results. A solution is shown creating a digital ecosystem model that inserts Scrum agile methodology for the children’s rehabilitation process, that allows interaction between all the actors in the process, such as children, parents or guardians, therapists, doctors, and specialists. Some related works are mentioned that offer a broader perspective of the scope that this technological approach has been generating. The proposed solution is tested in a study case at the APPAC Association. Discussion-Conclusion. The proposed model needs a lot of iterations to consider his value and get more detailed information about user experience and the perceived benefits at psychomotor deficit. It discloses important results with technologies’ use to work in the future. © 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.