Posts Tagged ‘Ethics’

Are you HIPAA Compliant?

Take a look at the questions and answers below for a quick refresher. -In HIPAA, “Covered Entities” are: “covered by” – or regulated by – HIPAA law -One of HIPAA’s “Five Overall Objectives” is: to protect personal medical information -The highest fine for the worst HIPAA violation is: $50,000 per violation, with a maximum of $1.5 million per year -Do disclosures of

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Cultural Linguistic Diversity (CLD) Workshop July 11-13

Join us this summer in Austin for a 3-day workshop designed for monolingual and bilingual speech pathologists with diverse caseloads.  We will feature topics including Ethical Considerations with CLD Populations, The Nine Parameters of Cultural Considerations, Evaluating Children from Second Language Backgrounds, and Increasing Parent Involvement, just to name a few.  You can find more information and an online registration

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When parents deny Bilingual Education, do they also deny Bilingual Speech Therapy?

Hi guys,I’m hoping one of you has a quick answer for me.  I’ve left some messages for some other people, too.If a Kindergarten student’s mom denies bilingual Kindergarten, does she also deny bilingual speech therapy?He is Speech Impaired only and has a few articulation goals and one sytax goal, and the ARD says “services will be in Spanish and English”.

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Supporting Research for Ethics Studies

Hi all, Here is some of the research that we used in our Ethics study and participation Ethical Considerations with a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Population ASHA code of ethics

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Why do we have new ethics requirements?

Why have ethics? What has our field decided, here in 2009 that you need to sit here and study about ethics? Why weren’t you here last year? What has changed if anything? In 2002, the United States ranked #20 in most ethical countries. Behind countries like Denmark, New Zealand, and Finland. This was out of 163. On this information, people

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Ethical Considerations in Working with a Diverse Population

Hello, For those of you that need Ethics Continuing Education Units, we will be presenting to the Austin Area Association of Speech Language Pathologists this month. We plan to transform this course into an online CEU course too. Stay tuned Ethical Considerations in Working with a Diverse Population Ellen Kester, PhD, SLP Scott Prath, SLP 10/8/09 Meetings 2nd Thursday of

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