Barbara Fiechtl

Contact Information

Phone:797-3258
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Office:ED 318
Address:
Center for Persons with Disabilities
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Special Education & Rehabilitation
2865 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-2865

Project Director, Virtual Home Visits Project

•    Faculty Fellow, Center for Persons with Disabilities
•    Clinical Instructor, Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation
•    Co-Director, Virtual Home Visits project
•    Faculty member for the CPD’s Utah Regional Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities project
•    Instructor, Early Childhood-Alternative Teacher Preparation Program
•    Four graduate and three undergraduate students are employed in the Virtual Home Visit project.

Barbara Fiechtl currently studies the feasibility of virtual home visits, seeing if the technology works and if early intervention services can be delivered effectively to families via internet video conferencing. The project is being conducted in northern Utah, and roughly half of the families in the study are from rural areas.

She has also participated in the URLEND program as a faculty representative in special education.  URLEND is a multi-state collaborative program with the University of Utah Medical Center’s Department of Pediatrics; the CPD; the Utah Department of Health’s Children with Special Health Care Needs Bureau; Primary Children's Medical Center; Family Voices organizations in the participating states, and CSHCN programs in Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, and Utah. Through URLEND, Fiechtl mentors two trainees on their leadership projects.

In addition, she teaches 11 students through the EC-ATP program, an off-campus, distance education program aimed at licensing early childhood special education providers. The program is housed at the CPD.

Her research is published in Infants and Young Children and the Rural Special Education Quarterly.


Roles at the CPD